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Short biography

Steve is currently Vice President of Research and Development for The Flexitallic Group based in Houston, Texas, and is responsible for R&D globally for The Flexitallic Group. It is a position he has held for over 17 years.

In this role Steve is responsible for the two Flexitallic R&D labs, one in the UK and one in Houston. This R&D work has led to several new products for the group and to multiple patents.

This position offers the opportunity to work not only with the development team, which he leads, but with Flexitallic Applications Engineers and customer engineers around the world.

Previous to this position Steve worked in the Automotive Industry for 11 years and the surface coatings industry for 4 years, in several research and development roles and locations, namely, Newcastle and Rugby in England. Steve moved to Chicago, then the Detroit Area, before settling in Houston for this position.

Steve holds a PhD in Chemistry from Aston University (in Birmingham, England) and a BSc in Applied Chemistry from the same institution. His main research interests have always been mineral chemistry and high temperature materials. In fact his PhD was research into the modification of clay minerals to improve their performance in an industrial application. This resulted in a patent and several papers.

He holds over 10 granted patents, with a few still pending, he is the author of more than 20 peer reviewed papers and multiple conference papers. In 2017 Steve was honoured by being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.