President and Chief Executive Officer
Mark A. Emalfarb is the founder of the Company. He has been a member of the Company’s board of directors beginning in October 2004 and has served as its Chairman as well as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company from October 2004 until April 2007 and from June 2008 until the present. Mr. Emalfarb has been a member of the board of directors of the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Dyadic International (USA), Inc., a Florida corporation (“Dyadic-Florida”) from its inception until the present and has served as its President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman from its inception until April 2007 and from June 2008 to the present. Since founding Dyadic-Florida in 1979, Mr. Emalfarb has successfully led and managed the evolution of the Company from its origins as a pioneer and leader in providing ingredients used in the stone-washing of blue jeans to the discovery, development, manufacturing and commercialization of specialty enzymes used in various industrial applications and the development of an integrated technology platform based on the Company’s patented and proprietary C1 fungus. Mr. Emalfarb is an inventor of over 25 U.S. and foreign biotechnology patents and patent applications resulting from discoveries related to the Company’s patented and proprietary C1 fungal microorganism, and has been the architect behind its formation of several strategic research and development, manufacturing and marketing relationships with U.S. and international partners. Mr. Emalfarb earned his B.A. degree from the University of Iowa in 1977.
|
Vice President General Counsel & Business Development, Secretary
Adam J. Morgan has been our Vice President General Counsel & Business Development and Secretary since joining the Company in January 2009. From December 2004 until October 2008, Mr. Morgan served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Secretary of Advance Publishers, L.C., a private distributor of licensed books and accessories in Maitland, Florida, and Executive Vice President and Secretary from December 2003 to November 2004. From May 1996 to August 2003, Mr. Morgan served in various legal and business capacities for Rexall Sundown, Inc. (“Rexall”), a publicly-traded and, later, privately held manufacturer and distributor of vitamins and nutritional supplements, including as Vice President New Business Development from July 2001 until August 2003. From May 1996 until July 2001, he served in various legal capacities of increasing responsibility at Rexall including, most recently, as Vice President-Legal Affairs and Assistant General Counsel. From 1990 until 1996, Mr. Morgan practiced law for several private law firms where he specialized in general corporate and securities law. Mr. Morgan earned his B.A. degree from Duke University in 1986 and his law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in the States of Connecticut, Florida and New York. |
Vice President Finance
Michael J. Faby has been our Vice President Finance since joining the Company in December 2009. Mr. Faby has over 20 years of financial, accounting and operational experience. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Faby served in various financial capacities of increasing responsibility for Perry Slingsby Systems, Inc. (f/k/a Perry Tritech Inc.), a multi-national leader in the design and manufacture of remotely operated vehicles to the international offshore oil and gas, telecommunications, military and defense industries including, most recently, as its Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Faby holds a B.S degree in accounting from Florida State University and an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology. Mr. Faby is a certified public accountant in Florida and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
|
Vice President Operations
Richard H. Jundzil, has been our Vice President of Operations since May 2010, and prior to that was our Director of Development & Quality since September 2008. He has held various laboratory, quality and regulatory positions of increasing responsibility since joining the Company in August 2003. Mr. Jundzil has 17 years of quality and operations experience in the biotechnology industry. Mr. Jundzil also is able to use his significant experience utilizing process engineering and project management fundamentals while managing the production and distribution of Dyadic's various enzyme products. Prior to joining Dyadic, Mr. Jundzil worked for 10 years at Genzyme Corporation as both a researcher and process engineer producing enzymes for patients with rare genetic diseases. Mr. Jundzil earned his B.S. degree in biotechnology sciences from Boston University.
|
Vice President Sales & Marketing
Thomas M. O'Shaughnessy, joined the Company in May 2010 as its Vice President Sales & Marketing. Mr. O’Shaughnessy has over 20 years of sales, marketing and business development experience in the chemical industry. He began his career with the General Electric Company where he spent 12 years in various sales and marketing positions of increasing responsibility and leadership. From 1996 to 2002, he served as Business Development Manager at Occidental Chemical Corporation, the sixth largest chemical operation in the United States. For the past eight years prior to joining the Company, Mr. O’Shaughnessy served as the Global Business Manager for Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. (formerly Borden Chemical), the world’s largest producer of thermosetting resins, performance adhesives, UV-curable coatings and the building-block chemical, formaldehyde, for various wood and industrial markets. Mr. O’Shaughnessy is Six Sigma certified and earned a B.S. degree in computer sciences with a minor in marketing from Plattsburgh State University in 1982.
|
Director of Sales & Technical Development
Brian E. Murdoch has been our Director of Sales & Technical Developement since May 2010, and prior to that was our Director of Sales and Marketing since September 2008. He joined the Company in January 2005. Mr. Murdoch was initially responsible for managing Dyadic's pulp and paper enzymes business and is now responsible for all of Dyadic's industrial enzyme markets. Prior to joining Dyadic, Mr. Murdoch was a Process Engineer with Dutton Engineering, a private design firm in Greenville, South Carolina from 2003 to 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Murdoch worked for five years in technical sales positions at Enzymatic Deinking Technologies (EDT), a private enzyme distributor in Norcross, Georgia. Mr. Murdoch earned his B.S degree in biochemistry with a minor in chemistry from Clemson University.
|
|