E. Wayne Turnblom

E. Wayne Turnblom graduated with his doctorate from Columbia, he was an Instructor and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University for two years. Dr. Turnblom is a member of Foresight’s Board of Directors and currently serves as Chair, Investments Committee, and 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. He has good knowledge of the railroad industry, both freight and passenger, including the technologies on which the industry depends. Dr. Turnblom conducts numerous technology and market assessments and special projects in the life sciences as well as in the chemical, environmental, energy and other high technology industries.

Before joining Foresight, Dr. Turnblom had a distinguished career at Eastman Kodak, where he advanced from Research Laboratory Head, Electrophotography Division to 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, and 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 and a former member of the Product Development and Management Association. He currently serves on a Dean’s Advisory Board at Boston University and is a Supervisor, Community Development District 6 in Lakewood Ranch, Florida.