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ATRP Solutions' Team
Experience Counts...

ATRP Solutions founders’ and staff are the most experienced team that could be assembled for atom transfer radical polymerization. They bring over 70 years of polymer chemistry experience and over 30 years of ATRP technology-specific experience to the company.
Randy Eager, CEO

Randy Eager, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has more than 27 years of successful management and product commercialization experience, including the selling and marketing of technical products and services to manufacturers and other commercial customers. This includes eleven years in the polymer industry, seven of which were in the polymer division of BASF developing applications with OEMs around the world. At his first start-up in the polymer industry, Randy was Vice President of Sales and Marketing with TriTech Group, Inc. Additionally, he spent five years as a management consultant focused on the development of strategic plans for multiple customers in a variety of industries with General Management Technologies, Inc. Prior to ATRP Solutions, Randy spent three years at Innovation Works, the third largest seed stage investor in the country, as an Executive in Residence. His role was sourcing of deals, mentoring CEOs, and participating as a board observer for the sixteen portfolio companies in which he led the investment. Prior to Innovation Works, Randy co-founded his second company, DeisgnAdvance Systems, a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off that he led as CEO from company inception to successfully raising over $6 million. In less than two years, he built the team and secured contracts from the likes of Cisco, Intel, Motorola, Apple, and others. DesignAdvance was acquired by EMA Design Automation the company's North American distributor. Prior to DesignAdvance Systems, Randy was a licensing officer in the Technology Transfer Office at Carnegie Mellon University where he licensed technology to industry and worked with Carnegie Mellon spin-off companies in various capacities. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Packaging Engineering from Michigan State University and received his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh's Katz School of Business.
Dr. Patrick McCarthy, President and founder

Patrick McCarthy, President and founder has 20 years of experience in high technology which includes experience in executive management, research and development management and business development functions. He has held board of directors seats in both non-profit and for profit institutions. Prior to founding ATRP Solutions, he worked at Dionex Corporation where he led a cross functional team to bring a line of analytical instrumentation products from conception to commercialization. He earned his doctorate degree in Chemistry from the University of Rhode Island and received his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. He has authored over 35 scientific publications and 4 patents.
Dr. Wojciech Jakubowski, VP

Dr. Jakubowski received his doctorate degree in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. He has authored over 25 scientific publications and 4 US patents. He has contributed to the development of ATRP by inventing a polymerization technique which reduces the required amount of catalyst required by over one thousand fold. He has utilized this discovery to simplify ATRP scale-up and purification.
Dr. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, founder

Dr Matyjaszewski invented ATRP technology and has pioneered the field of ATRP focusing on both mechanism elucidation and new material synthesis. Dr. Matyjaszewski has authored over 800 scientific papers, 60 book chapters and filed 35 patent applications related to ATRP technology making him the world’s leader in ATRP technology. Dr. Matyjaszewski is currently the J.C. Warner Professor of Natural Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. James Spanswick, founder

Dr. Spanswick spent 25 years at Amoco Chemicals (now part of BP) focusing on the development and commercialization of polymeric materials. In 1994 he formed Bridges TIC to assist corporations in the commercialization and capitalization of intellectual property. In addition to working with several Fortune 100 corporations on IP issues he has worked with Carnegie Mellon University and to protect ATRP, 30 issued US patents, and to transfer technology to industrial organizations through formation of two Research Consortia at CMU, 37 Consortium Members over the past 11 years which has resulted negotiation of nine licenses based on ATRP for CMU.