Shan Wickramanayake

Shan’s background includes his most recent position as R&D Project Manager at AkzoNobel, Principal Investigator, and R&D Engineer at AECOM Technology Corporation. His academic background includes Ph. D. and M.S. in Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and was a Chemical Engineering postdoctoral research fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. He is an R&D materials and manufacturing process development expert with strong project management skills and possesses over ten years of industrial experience in composite polymer compounding/formulation and processing for coating applications, packaging and other product development. In addition to that, he works on equipment design and process automation.