Title: Director, Commercialization Practice
Category: Senior Professional
Education: B.S., Applied Physics; Ph.D., Materials Science
Dr. Topping has over 30 years of experience in industrial materials research and development (R&D) and new product development, and 9 years of experience in university technology transfer. His R&D career was mostly with Ferro Corporation, a worldwide supplier of industrial materials with sales of over $1 billion/year, where he was involved in the development of new products for the electronics, ceramics, automotive, appliance, building, and other industries. His roles included scientist, corporate research associate director, and worldwide technical director of the coatings, color, ceramics and electronics group. He also worked at the ORTECH organization (then the Ontario Research Foundation) in Canada, the English General Electric Company, and the University of Rhode Island. Since mid 2009 he has worked as a senior reviewer at Foresight.