Rae brings to NanoDynamics many years of experience in technology commercialization and international business. While with Cookson Group plc he was instrumental in ensuring the success of startup and developed businesses including structural ceramics, flame retardants, refractories, electronic ceramics and wafer plating systems. From 1999 to 2004 he was VP of Technology for Cookson Electronics, deeply involved in developing business opportunities for materials systems and equipment in silicon wafer fabrication, packaging, circuit board manufacture, circuit board assembly and recycling. He is Director of Research for iNEMI Inc. (the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative), a member and past Chair of the JISSO North America Committee (facilitating electronics business worldwide by harmonizing technology roadmaps and standards), and a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of SMTA (the Surface Mount Technology Association). He is a member of the ANSI-Accredited US TAG to ISO TC229 (Nanotechnologies). Dr. Rae holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Aberdeen and a Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Chartered Chemist. |