David Waldman

Background

About David Waldman

C-Level executive experience in directing, managing and leading interdisciplinary teams in innovative product development and applied research in advanced materials technology, and in developing R&D collaborations and alliances with Industry partners and sponsors. • Expertise in research and development of polymer materials, with emphasis in new products R&D and structure-property correlation in discovery and process research. • Co-founder of Aprilis, Inc. in as a spin out company from Polaroid Corp; Directed product development of next generation optical storage materials, media and applications through 2010 in follow-on successor companies. • Experienced in implementing and management of MRA, JDA, SRA, IP, CDA, MTA, Due Diligence, Asset Purchase agreements. • Expertise in generation, protection and management of strategic and fundamental Intellectual Property, creative inventor of 45+ allowed patents. • Expertise in implementing a wide range of analytical methods involving spectroscopy, calorimetry, chromatography, microscopy, optical-mechanical systems and surface analysis. • Co-investigator in government funded consortia investigating advanced materials technology and applications including efforts funded by US Department of Defense, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology of Korea. • Extensive experience/expertise in developing photopolymer materials for use as holographic recording materials/media for high capacity optical data storage, and for diffractive optical elements for solar concentrator systems, ID imaging systems, LCD devices, aiming devices, heads up displays, etc. • In 2007 awarded the International Workshop Holographic Memories Inaugural Career Award from the Japanese industry consortium in acknowledgment of important international contributions to the field of holographic materials for next generation optical data storage. • Work is cited in numerous journals and patents.