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Dr. Naseem A. Munshi, President and CEO
Dr. Munshi is the President, Founder and Chief Chemist at CTD, where she has
successfully grown and operated the company for more than 20 years. She has
had key involvement in the development of the novel materials that enable
CTD’s products to provide the outstanding benefits they do. Dr. Munshi’s
model for CTD is to develop novel materials and processes, and engineer them
into enabling products that alter market dynamics in many different industries.
As the primary inventor of CTD’s TEMBO® shape memory polymers,
Dr. Munshi has also seen her materials gain space-flight heritage through
recent space flight successes.
Currently, Dr. Munshi’s focus is on guiding CTD
towards a sustainable cycle of technology innovation, product
innovation, and product commercialization. In 2007 Dr.
Munshi was acknowledged for her success as an innovator
by being named Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year
for Technology in the Rocky Mountain region. Dr. Munshi
earned a BS in Chemical and Polymer Technology and a PhD
in Polymer Science from the Polytechnic of the South Bank,
London.
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Mr. Michael L. Tupper, Executive Vice President
Mr. Tupper has been intimately involved in the development, testing and manufacturing
of composite materials for more than 20 years. His current responsibilities
are focused on guiding the commercialization of products and technologies
developed by CTD into target industries and applications. His focus for commercialization
is to identify niche market applications where CTD’s products and technologies
impact market dynamics. Working with strategic partners, Mr. Tupper seeks
applications where without the use of CTD’s technologies or products
the application’s needs cannot be met. Mr. Tupper has also played a
key role in obtaining development funding for CTD to develop materials, technologies
and products.
Prior to CTD, Mr. Tupper worked as an engineer at General
Atomics in San Diego, California, where he participated
in a wide range of engineering activities with emphasis
on operation in extreme environments. Mr. Tupper earned
a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University
and is a registered Professional Engineer.
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