Dave Murphy

Dave was responsible for the sale of Great Western Technologies Inc to form the basis of Eutectix in 2014. As part of the transaction, since he had been responsible for the business development of the Troy site prior to the sale, he was retained as Senior Advisor to Eutectix covering all aspects of the operations of the company.

Dave has been engaged in the Chemistry and Metallurgy of a wide range of metals and alloys throughout his long career, starting with an RTZ/Johnson Matthey joint venture into rare earths in 1969 where he developed and expanded production of rare earth salts, metals and alloys.

Trained as a metallurgical chemist at Nottingham University (UK), he transitioned to a commercial technical role after gaining considerable production experience in chemical and metallurgical processing along with alloy and applications development.

He progressed to GM (Europe) with Honeywell Electronic Materials and joined Less Common Metals as Commercial/Technical Director in 2001, a post he held until 2014 when, after a short retirement, he joined Eutectix as Senior Advisor.

In addition to his Eutectix role, Dave also acts as an industrial consultant/advisor to several other companies at senior management and board levels.