Dr. Jack Kavanaugh - An Unbeaten Entrepreneur
The journey of Dr. Jack as
an Ophthalmologist and a dentist is quite interesting. But, another
attention-grabbing fact about him is that he is also a successful
entrepreneur. He has worked with
numerous commercialize technologies over the period of his career.
Firstly, Jack Kavanaugh has worked
to create the next-generation medical treatments with the Calhoun Vision
company. In 1999, he met Bob Grubbs, who is a future Nobel laureate and got
inspired by his great values. Later in 2000, he joined the Materia, Inc., and served
his services as a board member. This technology is used to create resins and
catalysts for industrial use and the main aspect of Materia, Inc. is famous for
the licensed Nobel-prize-winning technology.
Role
of Dr. Jack at Materia Inc.;
He has raised the funds to
commercialize Grubbs technology for the company which is helpful to produce
metathesis catalysts and state-of-art resins. From 2002 to 2012 Materia set a good
mark on numerous main accomplishments.
With the hard work of Dr. Jack and the Materia team, they received a
grant from the National Institute of Health Phase 2 Fast Track Small Business
Technology Transfer in May 2012.
This technology is
recognized by the success of its Phase 1 efforts and makes their further plans
to scale up the operations and continue to develop the polymer process. After all this success, the company expanded
the partnership with the University of Kansas Paul Hanson that also helps the
company with its work.
Materia got an extension of
10 years of its previous records of the existing distribution deal with Sigma –
Aldrich Corporation in August 2012. Sigma offers more than 12 metathesis catalysts
developed by Materia. All these achievements made 2012, a successful year for
Materia, Inc. Basically, Materia’s Proxima structured a complete thermo set
system which is designed to facilitate the next–generation fused structure that
is resistant to fatigue and less expensive than their antecedents.
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