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A Wayne Tamarelli PhD., M.B.A.
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Value Added Investor |
Equity
Investments
Convertible Loans
Start-ups and Early
Stage Ventures
Accredited Investor
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Experienced
CEO & Entrepreneur
Active Business Advisor to portfolio company CEO's and Boards
Board Member when appropriate
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Summary of Business Interests & Competencies
Successfully managed, bought, sold and invested in numerous businesses.
Fields of interest and Experience include:
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- Advanced materials
- Chemical technology & markets
Corporate growth
Early-stage businesses
Emerging issues
Energy technology & markets
Environmental technology & markets
Government policy and relations
Industrial materials technology & markets
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- International business
- Investment analysis
- Licensing and transfer of technology
- Mergers and acquisitions
- New ventures
- Organizational improvement
- Safety management
- Strategic planning
- Technology transfer
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Current Business-related Affiliations (Partial List)
- Achieve 3000 - Investor; Board Observer
- American Chemical Society - Member
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers - Member; Award Recipient; Management Division
- AngelVine Angel Network
- Band of Angels - Member
- Band of Angels Acorn Fund - Member
- Bridge Semiconductor Incorporated - Investor
- Calluna Vineyards - Investor
- Camp Ventures II - Limited Partner
- Camp Ventures III - Limited Partner
- Cantimer Incorporated - Investor; Board Member
- Cardolite Corporation - Chairman, CEO's Advisory Committee
- Carnegie Mellon University - Carnegie Institute of Technology Advisory Council;
Former Assistant Professor (1965-1966; taught chemical engineering and physical
chemistry); Andrew Carnegie Society
- Chemical Heritage Foundation - Chairman, Joseph Priestley Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Heritage Council; Robert Boyle Society
- Chemistry Council of New Jersey - Past Chairman; Executive Committee; Board
Member
- Chemists Club (New York City) - Member; Director; Past Vice President
- Churchill Club (Silicon Valley) - Member
- Common Ground Recycling Incorporated - Investor; Board Member
- Commonwealth Club (San Francisco) - Member
- Crushpad Inc. - Investor
- Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerce - Past Board Member
- Hycrete Technologies LLC - Investor
- Image Engineering Laboratories, LLC - Investor
- Infoaxe Inc. - Investor
- InMat, Inc. - Investor; Board Member; Chair of Audit Committee; Advisory Board Member
- Jumpstart Angel Network LLC - Member; Board Member; Founding Chairman
- Licensing Executives Society - Member
- Linden Industrial Association - Honorary Trustee; Past President
- Mobideos Incorporated - Investor
- National Association of Corporate Directors - Member; New York Chapter; New Jersey Chapter
- New Jersey Entrepreneurial Network
- New Jersey Technology Council - Member; Past Board Member; Past Co-Chair of Electronics, Advanced
Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Advisory Board; CEO Advisory Board
- New York Academy of Sciences - Life Member
- NJTC Venture Fund - Limited Partner
- Park Avenue Club (New Jersey) - Member
- PeerView, Inc. - Investor; Board Observer
- Pittsburgh Athletic Association - Member
- Plextronics Incorporated - Investor
- Provid Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Investor; Board Member; Compensation Committee
- Provex Technologies, LLC - Investor
- Real Estate Partnerships (various) - Limited Partner
- Room Temperature Superconductors, Inc. - Investor
- Skyworks Ventures Inc. - Investor
- Societe de Chimie Industrielle - Member
- Supertron Technologies Incorporated - Investor; Board Observer
- Sword Diagnostics, Inc. - Investor
- Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (SOCMA) - Past Chairman;
Executive Committee; Board Member; Award Recipient
- Tamarelli Vineyard (Mendoza, Argentina) - Owner
- Theater - Investor in numerous stage productions (USA and overseas)
- UR-Way, Inc. - Investor; Board Stage Member
- Vapore, Incorporated - Investor
- Venture Association of New Jersey
- Zon Capital Partners - Limited Partner
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Past Business-related Affiliations (Partial List)
- American Chemistry Council (ACC; formerly CMA) - Board Member as Chairman of
Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers (SOCMA)
- American Society for Quality Control - Member
- American Society of Safety Engineers - Member
- Asia Silicon Valley Connection - Member
- Association for Corporate Growth - Member
- Dock Resins Corporation (19 years; 1983-2002) - Former Sole Owner, Chairman and CEO;
Bought company via leveraged buyout in 1983; Focused on specialty and advanced polymeric materials and surface applied
polymers for primarily industrial markets; After substantial growth in revenues and profits, sold
at very substantial increase in value.
- Exxon Corporation (5 years; 1966-1970) - Project Leader; Senior Research
Engineer (petrochemicals)
- Engelhard Corporation and subsidiaries (14 years; 1970-1983) - Senior Vice
President (chemicals, advanced materials, surface technologies, energy technologies,
environmental technologies, equipment systems, performance products, intellectual property licensing, corporate
R&D, corporate planning and diversification); formerly Group Vice President; Vice
President; General Manager-New Ventures; Major growth in revenues and profits; Responsible
for over $1 Billion in annual revenues, 2000 people, and affiliated companies in the Americas, Europe,
and the Far East; served on various boards; Chaired Patent Committee; Completed numerous acquisitions, joint
ventures, licensing agreements, etc.
- Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology-New York Society; Past Board Member
- Gateway Chamber of Commerce - Board Member
- Greater Newark Chamber of Commerce - Executive Committee; Secretary; Board Member
- International Angel Investors
- I-ten Holdings, Inc. - Investor
- Landec Corporation (5 years; 1997-2002) - Investor; Senior
Vice President; Advisor
- Light Full Foods Inc. - Investor
- Maxdem Incorporated - Board Member
- National Paint and Coatings Association - Metropolitan New York Paint and Coatings Association (Past Chairman; Past President; Past Board Member)
- New Jersey Energy Research Institute - Founding Board Member
- Parelec Incorporated - Investor; past Board Member; past Chair of Audit Committee; Compensation Committee
- Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) - Member
- Society for Risk Analysis - Member
- Solvents Recovery Service Incorporated - Board Member
- United States Army (2 years - 1966 to 1968 plus 6 years in Reserves) - Captain; Contract
Project Officer (managed development of weapons defense systems and advanced materials); Award Recipient
- Visible Tech-knowledgy - Investor; Board Member
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Summary of Public Advisory/Service Interests & Competencies
Fields of Public Interest and Experience include:
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- Business Incubation & Technology Transfer
- Economic development
- Education
- Emerging issues
- Energy
- Environment
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- Industrial policy
- International
- Organizational improvement
- Safety
- Strategy
- Technology transfer
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Current and Past Public Advisory and Service Affiliations (Partial List)
- Explorers Club - Member
- Fairleigh Dickinson University - Member of Advisory Board for Rothman Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies; Invited Guest Lecturer
- Governor's Economic Task Force (New Jersey) - Past Member
- Kean University - New Jersey Center for Science and Technology Education - Advisory Board Member; Gateway Institute for Regional Development Advisory Board - Past Member; Business Council - Past Member
- Linden City Cultural and Heritage Committee
- National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (U. S. Environmental
Protection Agency) - Past Member; Chair of Environmental Information, Economics and Technology
Committee; Chair of Chemical Accident Prevention Committee; Chair of Ecosystems Science
and Assessments Committee; Chair of Information Resource Management Task Force; Executive
Committee
- New Jersey Academy of Science - Past Member
- New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology - Seed Fund Advisory Committee
- New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Past Member, Stakeholder Advisory Group, Chemical
Industry
- New Jersey Economic Development Authority - Edison Innovation Fund Advisory Board Member
- New Jersey Entrepreneurial Training Institute - Business Plan Judge
- New Jersey State Opera - Past Board Member
- New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program - Past Member; Management Committee; Citizens Advisory
Committee
- Rotary International - Past President, Linden New Jersey Club; Board Member; President of
Scholarship Foundation
- Rutgers University - Panelist, Entrepreneurial Training Institute
- Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey - Board Member; Finance Committee; Audit Committee; Long Range Planning Committee; Investments Committee
- Union County Alliance - Board Member; Chairman Emeritus; Past Chairman; Past Chair of Executive Committee; Past Chair of Environmental Committee; Past Chair of Bylaws Committee; Award Recipient
- Union County College Foundation - Past Board Member
- United States Department of Energy - Past Member - Chemical Industry Executive Steering Group; Past Member - Vision 2020 Steering Committee
- United States Environmental Protection Agency - Past Member; Stakeholder Advisory Group, Specialty
& Batch Chemical Industry Sector.
- United States Environmental Protection Agency - Past Member; Stakeholder Advisory Group, Sustainable
Industries
- University of Pennsylvania - Judge, Wharton School Business plan Competition
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Awards and Recognitions (Partial List)
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers - Management Division Award
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers - Professional
Promise Award
- Business News New Jersey - Listed under "The Power Elite of New Jersey
Business"; Listed under "Who's Who of Environmental Professionals"
- Chemical Education Foundation - Vanguard Award for Industry Leadership on Responsible
Care ® initiative for chemical safety and public involvement
- Council on Environmental Quality - Environmental Award of the Decade (Engelhard
Corporation)
- Engineering Honorary - Tau Beta Pi
- Invited lecturer at universities (Carnegie Mellon University; New Jersey Institute of Technology; Kean University; Princeton University; Fairleigh Dickinson University; Rutgers University)
- Invited speaker and session chairman (for both domestic and international meetings) on
entrepreneurship, environmental management, industry restructuring, innovation, plant safety, waste
minimization, education, community involvement, plant management, performance incentives, private venture capital,
etc.
- Invited to testify before Federal and State legislatures on public policy issues
- Leadership Honorary - Omicron Delta Kappa
- National Science Foundation - Doctoral Fellow
- New Jersey - Proclamations and resolutions from the Governor, the Senate, the
Assembly, local officials for various accomplishments
- Military Honorary - Scabbard and Blade
- Scientific Honorary - Sigma Xi
- Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association - Public Policy Award
- Union County Alliance - Award for Strategic Vision and Role as Co-Founder of the
Alliance
- Union County Chamber of Commerce - Company Of The Year Award (Dock Resins Corporation)
- United Nations - Environmental Award of the Decade (Engelhard Corporation)
- United States Occupational Health and Safety Administration - Star Award for outstanding
safety and health program (Dock Resins Corporation)
- United States Army - Award for ingenuity, resourcefulness and technical skill in
contract project administration
- United States Congress - Special Congressional Recognition of Outstanding and Invaluable
Service to the Community (Dock Resins Corporation)
- United States Government - National Performance Review Award (Dock Resins Corporation)
- Who's Who in America; Who's Who in Finance and Industry; Who's Who in Engineering;
American Men and Women of Science
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Education (Partial List)
Carnegie Mellon University - PhD (1966), MS (1965), and BS (1963); Major in
Chemical Engineering
National
Science Foundation Fellow; American Institute for Economic Research Scholar; Consolidation
Coal Company Scholar
Chief
Justice, Student Court of Appeals; Chief Justice, Interfraternity Court of Justice
President,
Social Fraternity
President, University Chapter of American Institute of Chemical
Engineers
Honoraries - Tau
Beta Pi; Omicron Delta Kappa; Sigma Xi; Scabbard and Blade
New York University - MBA (1972); Double Major in Marketing and in International
Business
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