Conference Speakers

Jim Valentine, Ph.D.

Technical Fellow, NatureWorks LLC

BIOGRAPHY

Jim attended college at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and received a B.S. in Chemistry in 1983. He went on to attend graduate school at the University of Minnesota receiving his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry in 1989. Jim worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at MIT from September 1989 through June 1991, and then joined DuPont where he supervised mass spectrometry labs at Chambers Works (Deepwater, NJ) and the Experimental Station (Wilmington, DE) sites until November 2000. While at DuPont, Jim obtained his MBA from the University of Delaware in 1995. Jim joined NatureWorks (formerly Cargill Dow) in November 2000. Jim’s present position is Technical Fellow where he leads projects in new product development and R&D.

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