Mark brings over 30 years of experience in the metals and alloys industry, having held leadership roles at Reactive Metals and Alloys, as a Lab Technician testing steel additives, rare earth alloys, and associated by-products, then at Neomet Corporation (formerly a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Materials Corporation), as a Lab Manager, Quality Control Specialist, and R&D Department Head. While at Neomet Corporation he managed raw material analysis, product SPC programs, and the calciothermic rare earth process developments, and played a key role in starting up Mitsubishi’s Hydrogenation Disproportionation Desorption Recombination (HDDR) process for magnetic materials. He then worked at International Specialty Alloys as Technical Manager, Purchasing Director, and Melting Manager and then at Element Materials Technology (following its acquisition of Stork Materials Technology) as Manager of Analytical Services.
He holds a BS in Chemistry from Youngstown State University.