Dr. John B. Fenn Jr., is an internationally known thin film vacuum coating expert. Fenn`s expertise is roll to roll sputtering. During his career, Fenn managed two divisions of major corporations from start-up to profitability and founded two companies that later sold for more than three times the original capital investment. In 1997 he founded NeoVac, which was sold to Innovative Specialty Films (now Bekaert Specialty Films LLC) in 2001. NeoVac’s specialty was the design, development and commercialization of thin film products based on vacuum coating processes. Its first line of transparent conductive films for use in touch panels and displays quickly captured 10% of the global market. Prior to NeoVac, he co-founded and managed Andus, a high-technology vacuum coatings manufacturing company, which was purchased by Courtaulds PLC. Other career stops include Leybold Technologies, Courtaulds Defense Products, Inc. and Courtaulds Performance Films. Since 2003 he has been a full time consultant in the vacuum coating and transparent conductive thin film areas, working with a wide variety of small, medium and large companies throughout the world.
He was elected president of the Society of Vacuum Coaters in 2002, and received its Nathaniel Sugerman Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2003. AIMCAL awarded him their Presidents Award in "Recognition of Meritorious Service" to them and the Converting Industry Oct. 2010. He is a Technical Advisor for AIMCAL. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Purdue University in 1972. He also worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Chemistry Department at UCLA. His B.S. degree, also in Chemistry, is from Tufts University. Dr. Fenn has published or presented over 25 papers in a variety of both converting and business marketing topics.
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