Associate VP, Product Development

• Nov 2016 - Present

Associate Vice President

• Nov 2016 - Present

R&D Director, Digital Imaging Materials

• Mar 2015 - Oct 2016

Led a cross functional design team (30 people – including Research Fellows) to develop differentiated aqueous inkjet dispersion, toner external additives and display materials meeting quality, cost and delivery goals. Established functional characterization tools and representative application testing to validate performance. • Delivered a high structure carbon black inkjet dispersion for benchmark optical density. Validated system performance and managed trade-offs by tuning particle, surface treatment and components. • Developed a four color encapsulated polymer dispersion set for broader ink design flexibility, robust stability and benchmark print quality for commercial printing market meeting the aggressive run cost targets. • Directed a team to design novel composite external additives for toners which will revolutionize the low melt, small size toner’s fusing and charging property. • Formulated dispersion and toner strategy, developed product and technology roadmap in collaboration with the commercial teams. Explored latest trends and established product development and application capability.

Technology Strategy Manager

• Jan 2012 - Feb 2015

• Formulated & executed Xerox’s toner technology/product strategy and roadmap (including global trend analysis, competitive benchmarking and reviewing published industry trends) that effectively identified near and long term priorities with the best ROI. Managed Intellectual property strategy for toner and drove it to a sustainable level of >50 patents per year.• Executed strategy for partnering with OEMs (China, Japan and USA) to design and develop toner products that generated sales to multi-million dollar level.

Area Manager, Consumables Development and Manufacturing

• Jan 2001 - Feb 2015

• Led and developed multiple cross functional design teams (35 people) charged with designing new toners and carrier formulations that consistently met delivery, budget and quality targets. Designed and characterized multiple new toner and developer designs (mono and color) to enable system level integrated solutions that were delivered fully functional and generated high profit margin revenue streams for Xerox. Selected components (polymer, wax, colorants, and charge control agents), designed core-shell structure and developed structure-property relationship. Tailored nano-particle additives for surface functionalization to deliver a fully functional toner which met color, charging, powder flow, transfer and clean-ability requirements.• Developed a 6 micron core-shell particle structure via emulsion aggregation process for lower melting temperature and optimum rheology under fusing conditions for improved anti-blocking, flow and tribo-charging characteristics.• Formulated design rules for coating micron sized core-shell particles with nano-sized fumed metal oxides based on size, type and surface treatment. Enabled improved humidity sensitivity and flow stability of toner resulting in higher hardware reliability.• Developed and implemented powder coating formulations and processes with conductive polymer composite particles, carbon black pigment and/or carbon nanotubes on metallic cores (50 – 90 microns) for tribo-charging and conductivity control.

Process Technology Manager, Supplies Delivery Unit

• Jan 1993 - Jan 2000

• Recruited and led a team of engineers charged with identifying, developing and implementing innovative, cost effective powder process technology solutions (grinding, size classification, blending and screening- developed physics behind the process) that met quality, cost and delivery metrics. One example was moving a previously outsourced toner design from Japan to an internal manufacturing site - achieving NPV of $25M. • Designed and scaled-up a novel fumed metal oxide continuous injection process during conventional powders processes (grinding, size classification) for improved surface functionality, increased process efficiency, and improved handling. Process enabled product yield, rate and quality to exceed benchmark; resulted in UMC savings and plant capital avoidance of $1 M/site. • Engineered process guidelines for the functionalization and coating of powder surfaces including surface additive dispersion and attachment as well as shape modification. Developed foundation based on additive attachment kinetics and fluid mechanics. Designed several novel blending tools and implemented them to enable xerographic defect problem solving in strategic products.