Mark Drukenbrod received his doctorate in physics from Stanford University in 1989 in the area of subatomic mechanics. He worked at Premier Mill, Myers Engineering and CB Mills as marketing director, also serving as a dispersion specialist at these posts before becoming founding editor of PaintandCoatings.com in 1992. He still writes The Industry Letter twice weekly for SpecialChem, and is involved in new product development on a consultation level with several coatings, pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies. When not in the lab or on the production floor, Drukenbrod is a recovering audiophile and enjoys restoring classic automobiles.

Alexander ("Sandy") Morrison obtained a BSc in physics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Initially he worked for paper makers Wiggins Teape but in 1980 joined the industrial paint producer Blundell Permoglaze in Birmingham, working in the company's development and quality control laboratories. Later, he was employed by the raw materials supplier Henkel (now Cognis) in Leeds, England as a coatings technologist.

In 1995 he chose to make a career change to publishing and joined the international coatings publication Polymers Paint Colour Journal as its assistant editor. Later, he became Editor of that publication and its sister journal Asia Pacific Coatings Journal.

Today, he works mainly as a freelance technical writer and editor, producing the quarterly journal RADnews for the PRA, a technical supplement for the members journal of the industry association RadTech Europe and acting as technical editor on Surface Coatings International Part A.

His interests range across many other areas of science and technology, languages, photography, folk music, gardening, environmental issues, science fiction and other means of exploring the future of humanity.

Raymond Drufke obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Elmhurst College. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Chicago, concentrating on Finance and Marketing.

His first exposure to coil coating began at Material Science Corporation (then PreFinish Metals). As Plant Manager, he developed the manufacturing systems necessary to produce metal laminates, exterior automotive trim and high gloss appliance applications. As director of Process Development, he managed the design, construction and operation of a pilot line. This line became the vehicle for a number of innovative coating applications including powder, extrusion and multilayer coatings.

The second half of his career more fully utilized his business and marketing background. He successfully oversaw the transformation of marginal facilities into financially sound operations at Precoat Metals Chicago, Portage, Indiana and Edcoat New Carlisle, Indiana. During this time, the plants that were under his responsibility became market leaders in B-staged adhesives for automotive applications, high temperature coatings for the bakeware markets and polyester coatings for the aluminum exterior trim market.

He is currently a full partner at New Amsterdam Corporation. NAC offers its clients in the coatings industries, value added services in training, productivity enhancements and equipment design

Dr. Pasternack has a Ph.D. in Chemistry and more than 30 years of extensive R&D, manufacturing, patent law, worldwide government compliance and management expertise in the chemical industry. Dr. Pasternack is an internationally known expert in the field of UV and EB curable coatings. He presented the Technical and Safety Primer Session at the last four RadTech National Conferences (1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004) and is an experienced expert witness. His hands-on and R&D management experience led to the commercialization of more than 50 new UV/EB products for a broad range of industrial uses.

For more than twenty years, Dr. Pasternack directed a corporate technical exchange program between his United States laboratory and European and Japanese partners. He has extensive knowledge of chemical and physical analytical test methods used to evaluate UV/EB curable coatings and authored more than 65 publications including patents, journal articles and presentations at numerous technical conferences.

Dr. Pasternack developed and carried out a multimillion-dollar global patent program that included worldwide patent enforcement in addition to filing patent applications worldwide. In addition, he directed a corporate worldwide product MSDS and government compliance program.

Dr. Pasternack offers diverse, in-depth knowledge and experience with a broad perspective in the field of UV/EB curable coatings.

Dr. Gino De Rycke (1951) studied chemistry at the university of Leuven (Belgium) and at the Max-Planck Institute Gôttingen (Germany).

He worked for more than 20 years (shortly with BASF, mostly with AGFA ) on the preparation of nanoparticles and the formulation of coatings.

He is the holder of several patents on these topics.

Since 2002, he manages his own company in formulation chemistry and he is also partially active as a consultant.

For more than 20 years Louis McCulloch has offered expertise in both M&A and market entry projects through his company, James Consulting, a business development consultancy specialising in the paint and coatings industry world-wide.

During this time he has been the editor of The Coatings Agenda management publication with separate European, American and Asia-Pacific editions, as well as being a regular speaker at industry conferences and company seminars.

Larry J. Culver, the founder and owner of Larry J. Culver & Associates, Adaptive Consultant Networks™, is located in Kingsport, TN and focused on "delivering adaptive consulting solutions™" to the coatings industry. Prior to establishing Larry J. Culver & Associates consulting services, Mr. Culver held several leadership management positions in a $5B Fortune 500 chemical company at its U.S. Corporate Headquarters. Mr. Culver possesses a unique balance of technical, business and strategic planning skill sets.

Dr.Vijay Mannari is a professor of Polymers & Coatings at Eastern Michigan University, US. He earned his PhD from Sardar Patel University, India, where he also taught graduate courses on Surface Coating Technology for several years.

Vijay has been actively involved in the field of coatings and resins since past 20 years, which includes broad range of industrial, research, and academic experience. A gifted teacher and accomplished researcher, Vijay has published more than 20 research papers, made several technical presentations, and earned awards for teaching excellence.

His primary research interests include polymer synthesis for coatings, structure-property relationship, coating formulations, "Smart Coatings", and environmentally friendly technologies.

An internationally recognized expert, Dr. Mannari is a Chartered Scientist, Fellow member of OCCA (UK), member of FSCT, US, and currently serving on the board of Detroit Soc. for Coatings Technology.

Yves FRUCHON is currently teaching formulation, application & control of paints. Other areas include research, continuing education, consulting to companies about paints and also colors, colorimetry and computer aided colour matching. His is also an ANVAR expert.

Wim van Diemen started his professional career in 1991 as a product development chemist for the Industrial division of Sigma Coatings in the Netherlands. After the relocation of several R&D departments to a new central research center in Amsterdam, he transferred to the Marine & Protective Coatings division. In 1995, he relocated to New Orleans to become the R&D Manager for this division in the U.S.A. After his return to Europe in 2000, he accepted the position of Distribution Manager (EMEA) for the business unit Coatings & Inks of Elementis Specialties. In this role he was responsible for the commercial and technical support to the distributors. In 2003 he continued with Elementis as the Regional Sales Manager for the Southern EMEA region. Since May 2007 he is active for Dols International, a chemical distribution company located in the Netherlands, combining this with limited consultancy activities.

His educational background includes a Masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. In addition he followed a post doctoral course in Coating Technology from the foundation of Polymer Technology in the Netherlands.