Today, we are pleased to announce Dr. Chad Duty has been named as IACM’s CEO-Elect. An engineering professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT), and joint faculty member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Chad will immediately begin transitioning into his new role as CEO of IACMI and fully assume the role by April 1, 2023.

Dale Brosius, IACMI’s Chief Commercialization Officer (CCO) and interim CEO, will continue to lead the full-scale daily operations of the institute until Chad assumes the CEO role. Dale will also continue in his roles as CCO and executive director of the IACMI Consortium.

Chad, who will continue as a professor at UT, has more than 20 years of research experience in advanced manufacturing — spanning technologies in thin film processing, printed electronics, solar energy, and additive manufacturing of polymer composites. Before joining the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Biomedical Engineering at UT in 2015, he served as a research scientist and group leader at ORNL, beginning in 2004, and helped to establish the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL. Chad began his career as a senior aeronautical engineer at Lockheed Martin. He has a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech and bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech.

His strong background in advanced manufacturing research, technical management, strategic planning, industrial collaborations, navigating complex organizations, and working with a variety of stakeholders and funding agencies makes him well positioned as CEO.

Please join us in welcoming Chad to the IACMI team. We ask you to support Chad and continue to support Dale and the entire IACMI team during the transition in the months ahead.

Thank you,

Maha and Tom