Title: Member, Board of Directors
Category: Senior Managing Professional
Education: Ph.D., Organic Chemistry; Executive Program (MBA Equivalent)
E. Wayne Turnblom, Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Columbia University, and Executive Program, (MBA Equivalent), Rochester Institute of Technology. After graduating with his doctorate from Columbia, he was an Instructor and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University for two years. Dr. Turnblom is currently Vice President, Marketing and Director of Foresight’s Northeast Regional Office as well as a member of Foresight’s Board of Directors. He has diversified technical and business management experience, both domestically and internationally, in R&D management, new product development and commercialization, new business development, strategic alliance formation, business strategy development, new business start-ups, marketing and business planning and environmental affairs management. Dr. Turnblom serves as a senior Licensing Executive at Foresight and conducts numerous technology and market assessments in the life sciences as well as in environmental, energy and other high technology industries. Examples of his clients include Roswell Park Cancer Institute, The Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cornell University, the University of Rochester, High Technology Rochester, Praxair, the University of Syracuse, the Tech Garden, the State University of New York at Brockport and Buffalo, the University of Pittsburgh, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeast Pennsylvania and others.
Before joining Foresight, Dr. Turnblom had a distinguished career at Eastman Kodak, where he advanced from Director, Marketing and Business Planning, Bio-Products Division to Director, Business Development, Laboratory and Research Products to Manager, Business and Technology Development, Graphics Imaging Systems Division and finally Director, Environmental Affairs, Kodak Professional Division. He was instrumental in the formation of Kodak’s biotechnology business which ultimately became Genencor International. Dr. Turnblom was a member of the Board of Directors of the former Commercial Development and Marketing Association, where he last held the Office of Secretary. He also served on the Advisory Board of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at WPI, has served as an Advisor to Tech Ventures, an upstate New York venture capital firm. Dr. Turnblom is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Product Development and Management Association and the Rochester Professional Consultants Network.