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Executive Profiles / Board Profiles
Dr. Gregory R. Hahn, age 54, President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Hahn joined Synthetech as President and Chief Operating Officer in September 2006. Dr. Hahn assumed the responsibilities of Synthetech's President and Chief Executive Officer on July 1, 2008. From 1999 until joining Synthetech, Dr. Hahn worked for the FMC Corporation and most recently was the Organics Global Business Director for its Lithium Division, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. His experience previous to FMC was as Vice President, Sales, at Sigma Aldrich Fine Chemicals, St. Louis, Missouri and as Marketing and Development Manager at Koch Chemical Company, Corpus Christi, Texas. Dr. Hahn received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, and his Doctor of Philosophy, Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Davis.
Gary A. Weber, age 51, Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Weber joined Synthetech as Vice President of Finance and Administration in June 2002 and was subsequently appointed to the positions of Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary. From 1998 until March 2002, Mr. Weber was Vice President of Finance for Wah Chang and Oremet-Wah Chang, a division of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated that manufactures specialty metals and chemicals. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Weber was Controller for Oregon Metallurgical Corporation, a manufacturer of titanium products. From 1981 to 1994 Mr. Weber held various positions of increasing responsibility for Coopers & Lybrand, a predecessor firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Although not presently in public practice, Mr. Weber has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1983 (currently inactive status) and holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Oregon.
Brett Reynolds, age 37, Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
Mr. Reynolds was appointed as Synthetech?s Vice President of Sales and Marketing in July 2008. Mr. Reynolds joined Synthetech in 1994 as an analytical technician. In 1996, he was promoted to Manager of Sales and Marketing of Synthetech. Mr. Reynolds was named Director of Sales and Marketing in 2004 and was responsible for corporate marketing and strategic direction and business development for the West Coast, Western Europe and Asia. Mr. Reynolds holds a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and an MBA from Oregon State University.
Dr. Frederic C. Farkas, age 47, Vice President of Operations. Dr. Farkas joined Synthetech as Director of Manufacturing in October 2008 and was promoted to the Director of Manufacturing and Research & Development in March 2009. Dr. Farkas has over 13 years experience with amino acid derivatives, peptides and API manufacturing from previous positions in manufacturing and supply chain management in Switzerland mainly at Novartis AG, Bachem Corporation and Senn Chemicals Company, where he served until 2007 as Director of Manufacturing. Dr. Farkas earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1991 from the University Basel inSwitzerland.
Dr. Joseph Murphy, age 62, Director of Business Development. Dr. Murphy joined Synthetech in August 2003 as Director of Business Development. Prior to joining Synthetech, Dr. Murphy performed consulting work during 2002 and 2003 and held senior business development and product manager positions with the following fine chemicals companies: Cambridge-Major Laboratories (Director of Business Development, 2001 to 2002), Degussa Corporation (Business Development Manager, 1999 to 2001), Fisher Scientific (Senior Product Manager, 1994 to 1999) and Eastman Fine Chemicals (Chemical Products Manager, 1991 to 1994). Between 1984 and 1991, Dr. Murphy was the R&D Manager and a business development associate for Schweizerhall, Inc., a fine chemicals company in South Plainfield, New Jersey specializing in amino acid and peptide intermediates. During 1983 and 1984, Dr. Murphy conducted peptide research at The Rockefeller University, under the direction of R. B. Merrifield, a 1984 Nobel laureate. Dr. Murphy holds a B.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Michael C. Standen, age 48, Technical Director. Dr. Standen joined Synthetech in March 2001 as a senior process development scientist and was named Technical Director in March 2003. From 1989 to 2001 Dr. Standen worked as a chemical process development scientist with Zeneca Agrochemicals, a global manufacturer of crop protection products. Prior to 1989, Dr. Standen spent 18 months as a post doctoral researcher in fluorocarbon chemistry at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. From 1985 to 1986 he worked as a postdoctoral Fulbright scholar at the Center for Fast Kinetics Research at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Standen holds B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
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