Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA)
Donald Nadreau serves as the Chief Financial and Operations Officer at Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA). Prior to this role, Donald held positions such as Vice President Finance & Administration/Chief Financial Officer at Windmill International, Inc., Manager Program Control Office at DCS Corporation, and Business Operations Manager at TYBRIN Corporation. Donald's extensive experience includes implementing financial systems, overseeing audits, and managing financial planning and analysis. Donald holds an MBA in Finance from Florida State University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire.
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA)
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), is a non-profit Institute headquartered in Cambridge, MA and is one of the newest members of the Manufacturing USA Institutes. AFFOA's mission is to rekindle the domestic textiles industry by leading a nationwide enterprise for advanced fiber & fabric technology development and manufacturing, enabling revolutionary system capabilities for national security and commercial markets. At the heart of this revolution is a simple premise: highly functional textile-systems necessitate sophisticated fiber-device components. To pursue this mission, AFFOA addresses the spectrum of manufacturing challenges associated with volume manufacturing of revolutionary fibers and textiles from design to end products. AFFOA facilitates the transition of these revolutionary fiber and textiles from the laboratory through pilot production, delivering the functionality of semiconductor devices and systems at fiber length, uniformity, and cost. AFFOA leads the convergence of semiconductor technology into fiber and textile production to commercialize textile products that see, hear, sense, communicate, store and convert energy, regulate temperature, monitor health, and change color while delivering the conventional qualities of textiles to benefit the commercial consumer and warfighter.