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Mike Pilliod is a glass engineer at Tesla, where he leads new material and manufacturing technology introductions. Mike has been riding quite a glass wave in product companies, starting at…

Sam Rubin is President and Chief Executive Officer of LightPath Technologies, Inc. Before joining LightPath, Mr. Rubin held a senior executive role at Thorlabs, where he was responsible for Thorlabs’…

John Ballato received a B.S. degree in ceramic science and engineering and the Ph.D. degree in ceramic and materials engineering from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 1993…

A socially responsible entrepreneur and visionary with an enviable history of rapidly and sustainably building impact companies with transformational technologies. Philip Galland has been variously described as having an almost…

Dr. Don McPherson is currently Chief Science Officer at EnChroma in Berkeley, CA, where he develops technologies to assist the colorblind. Don designed EnChroma’s line of eyewear for the colorblind…

Dr. Naoki Sugimoto is Executive Officer, General Manager, Materials Integration Laboratories, of AGC Inc., Japan. Management experience in AGC for R&D, Marketing, New Business Development, and Corporate Venture Program since…

Vahid Majidi is responsible for the management, operation, and strategic direction of Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). Employing approximately 1,000 technical and support staff, SRNL conducts research and development for…

Stefanie Tompkins is the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Prior to this assignment, she was the vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School…

John C. Mauro is Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. John earned a B.S. in Glass…

Karol Wight became executive director at The Corning Museum of Glass in August 2011 and served as curator of ancient and Islamic glass from August 2011 through July 2017. In…