Charles Lancelot PhD
Dr, Lancelot Experience covers a wide variety of materials technology, including commodity and engineering plastics and processes as well as thermoplastic and other rubbers. He is tightly networked to the Marketing and Technology operations of most of the global resin manufacturers, and able to successfully leverage their vast product development and testing capabilities.
Dr. Lancelot has close working relationships with several independent laboratories as well, most notably the Materials Analysis Center at Georgia Tech.
Prior to founding CE Tech, Dr. Lancelot was Vice President, Technology and Business Development for Ansell International’s Protective Products Division.
Prior to joining Ansell, Dr. Lancelot held several positions at Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Inc. Among these were Director, Technology and Business Development; Waste Systems, which team was responsible for an overall $110MM annual business volume, and accountable for the generation of $10-12MM in sales of new products annually. Dr. Lancelot was also Director, Materials and Process Technology, responsible for generating new products and cost reductions through new materials and processes.
At Mobil Chemical, as Manager, High Pressure Polyethylene Process R&D, Dr. Lancelot was responsible for all process development in support of Mobil's high pressure polyethylene production
Dr. Lancelot holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Princeton University (1971) and his BS in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame (1962). He is fully bilingual in Spanish/English and reasonably fluent in French and German. When not consulting, he plays concert piano.
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Tom Haislet
Tom has over 40 years in manufacturing operations and MIS experience including general management, strategic and operational planning, business team building, plant design, automation technologies, business productivity improvement ( 6 Sigma, Lean Manufacturing), all primarily but not exclusively in the plastics field.
Prior to CE-Tech, Mr. Haislet was VP Operations for Rubbermaid Cleaning Systems where he developed and implemented operations strategy and managed operations for this new division.
Between 1998-2000 Tom was VP Operations for Liittle Tikes Commercial Play Systems where he completely rebuilt the manufacturing processes and developed a first for the industry, an efficient “Make to Order” business model to replace an outdated make to stock operation. The results of this manufacturing innovation significantly enhanced the profitability of the company
Between 1991-1997, Tom held various positions at Rubbermaid Commercial Systems from Director of Operations to Advanced Manufacturing Manager. During his tenure he led the Winchester site operations and developed/implemented a focused factory utilizing self directed work teams. This new manufacturing concept significantly increased RCP's capacity, enabling them to consolidate 3 plants into one plant operation.
At General Electric Tom held various positions from General Manager, Compressor Operations to Division Manager Quality and Productivity Programs and Quality Control Manager.
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Kenneth R. Morris
Kenneth Morris has over 35 years of management experience including, among others, general management and business globalization, strategic and operational planning, business team building, business restructuring and business productivity improvement, and new product development, all primarily but not exclusively in the plastics field.
Ken has held general management positions in two international and three North American companies. Typical industry and product categories in his portfolio encompass housewares, hardware, materials handling, food service, waste management, sanitary maintenance, agriculture, toys, hotel/ hospitality as well as small structures. In addition, Mr. Morris has built an extensive global network of contacts in his field.
Prior to CE-Technologies, LLC, Mr. Morris was President and General Manager for Zag Industries, Ltd., and for Storage Technology, both subsidiaries of The Stanley Works, Inc.
Between 1998-2001, Mr. Morris was Corporate Vice President of New Product Development and Technology for Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. a $7 billion enterprise with over 30 divisions. In over twenty years of senior management with several Rubbermaid Divisions and Rubbermaid Corporate prior to the Newell acquisition, Mr. Morris executed many highly recognized new product development efforts. He established a proven track record of continuous improvement in the product development process and underlying systems, providing thousands of new, highly successful, signature product introductions. In the process, Ken pioneered new and successful techniques in organization structure, performance metrics and R&D driven marketing research.
In both the Home Products and later in the Commercial Products divisions, Ken held the post of Vice President of R&D.
Mr. Morris holds an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Case Western Reserve University (1978) and his BS in Aerospace Technology from Kent State University (1969).
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Binnur Gunesin PhD
Dr. Gunesin’s experience encompasses a wide variety of materials technology, including thermoset and thermoplastic rubber and plastics products and processes as well as textile technology. She is a world class technical consultant and advisor for multinational companies operating in the US, Europe, CIS and the Eastern Mediterranean countries.
Prior to Dr .Gunesin’s affiliation with CE-Tech she managed the technology transfer of thermoplastic elastomer technology for BASF.
At Mobil Chemical, Dr. Gunesin developed and scaled up novel processes for thermoplastic elastomers. She designed and built a state-of-the-art totally automated pilot plant, trained engineers and technicians, and produced four novel products.
At Celanese Plastics, Dr. Gunesin developed a novel process for Celcon acetal engineering plastics.
At Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Dr. Gunesin developed a high strength rubber to replace natural rubber in certain applications. She managed the implementation of this new rubber from the laboratory through the pilot plant to the commercial plant stages. Other R&D programs included the rubber-toughening of nylon 6, the adhesion of rubber to wire and the chemical modification of synthetic rubbers.
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