Advisory Board

The school's advisory board consists of distinguished alumni, business leaders, and eminent academics who generously donate their time to help us advance our school. They provide a valuable external perspective on our current programs and are active in helping us shape future directions. In addition to participating in periodic board meetings, our advisors are actively engaged in on-campus activities, student career advising, and fundraising efforts.

Joseph E. Coury Dr. Joseph “Joe” Coury is currently Vice President Fuel Production for Ardica Technologies in San Francisco, CA. Ardica Technologies is an energy solutions provider focusing on the manufacture of state-of-the-art fuel cells. Joe works with the... (read more)	Gerald W. Staton, Jr Gerald W. Staton, Jr MD is Professor Emeritus, Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Staton graduated from Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1972. Dr. Liotta taught him organic chemistry. He obtained his M.D. from the Medical College of... (read more)	Elizabeth D. Gadsby Dr. Elizabeth Gadsby recently joined a biotech start-up, Profusa, specializing in injectable tissue-integrating biosensors. She is responsible for leading the cross-functional team to extend development of the platform with new biochemistries... (read more)
Kelly Sepcic Kelly Sepcic is President of ArrowInno, specializing in product design and innovation consulting. She served Vice President for Frito Lay North America and PepsiCo’s Research and Development from 2007-2015.... (read more)	Stephen Padgette Steve Padgette is currently an Operating Director at Paine & Partners, LLC, a global leading private equity investment firm focused on investing in food and agribusiness. Dr. Padgette works to identify new investment opportunities for... (read more)	William Needle Bill Needle is currently the head of the intellectual property department of Ballard and Spahr LLP. He is also an adjunct law professor at Emory (since ’83) and Georgia State University (since ’90). He received a B.S. degree in... (read more)
Atif M. Dabdoub Atif M. Dabdoub, Ph. D. Chemistry, Georgia Tech., 1976. He started his career with Mayo Chemical Co., in Atlanta, Georgia, as director of R&D. Twelve years later he became the President and CEO, while Mayo became the largest and... (read more)	Léopold Demiddeleer Dr. Léopold Demiddeleer has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Brussels University and is currently executive V.P. and Director of Future Businesses of SOLVAY S.A., a Belgian chemical group with a global reach. Having started his career in... (read more)	David Moody Dr. David Moody is a 1988 graduate of the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry where he was part of Dr. Charles Liotta's research group. He currently serves as President of Milliken's Floor Covering Division. He was previously President of Milliken... (read more)
Jeffrey Hurley Dr. Jeffrey Hurley is a 1990 (M.S.) and 1992 (Ph.D.) graduate of the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry where he was part of Dr. Charles Liotta’s research group. He currently serves as the Vice President of Nonwovens for NicePak Products of... (read more)	Larry Dalton Dr. Dalton is the B. Seymour Rabinovitch Chair Professor of Chemistry (Emeritus) at the University of Washington and Executive Director of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center on Materials and Devices for Information... (read more)	Michael Cobb Dr. Cobb is the CEO of The InnovaNet Group LLC, a management consulting firm focusing on helping companies grow their businesses, develop new products, and improve their operations. He is also Managing Principal of Criterion Scientific LLC,... (read more)
Gerald Bush Dr. Bush founded Decision Strategies, Inc. in 1993 after serving as VP of R&D and Strategy for Roche Diagnostics where he had responsibility for technology licensing and new venture development in the biotechnology and medical... (read more)