Phone +1 (908) 232 5690
fmarikar@nanobizllc.com
Marikar has extensive experience in planning and developing new business opportunities through cross-sector alliances in a global setting in his prior corporate career spanning 23 years. Working at major global corporations, his purview has included materials, chemicals, electrical/electronics and energy technologies. Product/industry areas of involvement include batteries, capacitors, fuel cells, films, paints, coatings, plating, corrosion, carbon fiber, graphite, specialty chemicals, plastics, electronic chemicals, ceramics, and composites.
Most recently, as director of business development Dr. Marikar opened an office for SGL Carbon in New Jersey and built a multi-million dollar business in Fuel Cell Components based on German R&D, playing multiple roles of strategy development, global market assessment, competitive benchmarking, establishing supply chain partnerships and eventually seeking venturing options on a team with AT Kearney. He was the founding chairman of the Materials & Components working group of the US Fuel Cell Council.
Dr. Marikar spent the first four years of his industry career working on advanced batteries at Gould Inc., in Chicago on electric vehicle and lithium batteries and the next seventeen years at Celanese which later became Hoechst. At Hoechst he was responsible for developing the business in Fuel Cell Membranes, later spun off as a new company and subsequently acquired by BASF. Prior to that, he was on an expatriate assignment at company headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, seeking technology linkages among the Hoechst businesses in Europe. At Hoechst Celanese, he was manager of External Technology, responsible for assessing and accessing technologies and growing new businesses. He surveyed the technology assets of the corporation and articulated strengths and needs, and visited most major national laboratories and funded programs at universities.
Dr. Marikar served on an industrial advisory committee to the US National Science Foundation. He was the first chairman of the US Industrial Research Institute’s External Technology Directors’ Network; and represented Hoechst on the European Industrial Research Management Association panels on benchmarking and financing R&D. He has written on competitiveness and organized a conference on University-Industry collaboration.
With basic degrees in chemistry and a Ph.D. in engineering (Metallurgy/Materials Science) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Marikar taught corrosion, and worked at Imperial College, London and RPI in Troy, NY. He has 23 patents, 10 of them in the USA, in batteries, fuel cells, coatings and nanomaterials.
Marikar has lived on three continents.
Phone +1 (973) 886 1547
cbrumlik@nanobizllc.com
Brumlik is a business attorney who has advised angels, venture capital groups and an international nanotechnology fund, and assisted startup technology companies.
Dr. Brumlik is focused on commercialization, due diligence, and technology sourcing in alternate energy, materials, cleantech and nanotechnology. Application areas include membranes, separations, chemical functionalization, ultrafine particles, high surface area materials, cermets, displays, solid state lighting, sensors, and electronics.
As a business attorney, he advises international technology companies, startups, and venture capital groups. At ExxonMobil, Honeywell, and a Princeton law firm, he specialized in transactional and patent issues in chemistry and materials science commercialization for corporations, academia, and governments.
Commencing with his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Nanochemistry and Nanomaterials” at Texas A&M, Dr. Brumlik has 20 years of experience working with nanotechnology. As a postdoc at Colorado State University, he published widely on creating and testing materials, devices and systems in the nano and meso scale. He also collaborated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and international academic, government, and corporate research groups.
Dr. Brumlik has over 20 nanotechnology publications and patents on materials and materials modifications including nanoparticle hydrogen storage, electrochemical energy storage, and related processes. He has extensive research experience in membrane materials. He made nano and mesoporous inorganic, organic, and mixed membranes by nuclear track-etch, anodic alumina, and particulate processes; and nonporous separation membranes by chemical, electrochemical, plasma polymerization and solution casting processes. He made anisotropic high flux membranes with insitu surface modification.
From early in his career, Brumlik assisted in the creation and operation of start up companies for molecular models, energy, business methods, electrically conducting composites, food chemistry. His hands on consulting also includes providing prototype materials and advanced patent/competitive intelligence/market research. He earned a law degree at New York Law. His legal career started as a registered patent attorney and developed to include technology transfer, sponsored research, joint ventures, international business transactions, due diligence and related business law.
Brumlik has dual U.S.-E.U. citizenship and is fluent in French.
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