Ernest H. Drew, PhD
Ernest H. Drew, PhD, was most recently President and Chief Executive Officer of the Industrial Group of Westinghouse Electric Corporation.  Prior to that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Hoechst Celanese Corporation, a $7 billion revenue company headquartered in Somerville, New Jersey.  From 1995 to 1997 he was a member of the senior executive management team at Hoeschst AG, a $30 billion revenue corporation in Frankfurt, Germany, where he had board responsibilities for the chemical and advanced materials businesses, the Americas and Greater China regions and was chairman of the board's strategic committee.

Juergen Ritz, PhD
Juergen Ritz, PhD, was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Herbets GmbH with annual sales of over DM3.0 billion.  Formerly owned by Hoechst, Herberts was purchased by DuPont in 1999 from DuPont Performance Coatings.

Samuel Y. Golding
Samuel Y. Golding was President of the Standard Structural Steel Co. of Hartford, Connecticut and served on its Board of Directors for twenty years.  Standard Structural Steel Co. fabricated and erected steel for high-rise office buildings, highway bridges, and power plants throughout the north-east US.  Mr. Golding is past Chairman of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the preeminent steel industry organization with a membership comprised of representatives of all facets of the industry, including the producing mills, engineers and architects, fabrication and erection companies, support industries, and steel related trade unions.  Mr. Golding was also Vice President of the National Erectors Association and Vice President of the University of Hartford Construction Institute.

Gerald J. St. Pé
Gerald St. Pé is the retired Chief Operation Officer of Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Pascagoula, Mississippi, which is comprised of the corporation's shipbuilding operations, Ingalls Shipbuilding and the Full Service Center, and Avondale Industries.  Prior to the merger of Grumman and Litton Industries that established Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Mr. St. Pé was Litton Industries Executive Vice President and President of Ingalls.  He is former Chairman of the American Shipbuilding Association and a member of the Navy League of the United States, the United States Naval Institute, the Surface Navy Association, the American Society of Naval Engineers, and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.

Sivaraman Venugopalan
Sivaraman Venugopalan is President and Principal of SCS, Inc., a corrosion services company, and was formerly a managing engineer of the Mechanics and Materials practice of Exponent, Inc.  Mr. Venugopalan received his MS in Ocean Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, and holds professional certifications including: Cathodic Protection Specialist, NACE International; Concrete Field Testing Technician, ACI International; and Concrete Production, Master Certificate, World of Concrete.

J. Derek Mason, PhD
J. Derek Mason, PhD, is a partner with Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C., Arlington, Virginia, which specializes exclusively in intellectual property law for both international and domestic clients.  Dr. Mason received his Law degree from the George Washington University National Law Center and holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, where he studied organometalloid chemistry.