Bob Wadja

Bob Wadja has over 30 years of experience in the sales, marketing, and product development industries. Bob began their career in 1990 as a Packaging Manager at Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company, where they worked on the development of high power laser diodes. In 1992, they moved to Polaroid as a R&D Project Manager and was granted three US patents. In 1999, they joined MKS Instruments as a Sr. Product Marketing Manager, where they led the Reactive Gas Plasma Products Business and developed the ASTRONe line of high output reactive gas generators. In 2003, they became the Business Development Leader at Optos, where they supervised the business development team for North America. In 2005, they returned to Entegris as a Sr. Product Marketing Manager and was responsible for the company's highest revenue/gross margin product category. In 2012, they were promoted to Sr. Global Market Segment Manager, where they led a $120MM global market segment. In 2015, they moved to MPC as a Strategic Marketing Manager and established the industry marketing function. In 2019, they joined Kayaku Advanced Materials as a Sales Applications Manager, where they retooled and expanded the breadth of function of the sales applications department. Currently, they work as the Sr. Director of Sales & Marketing at Sheaumann Laser.

Bob Wadja received a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Marketing & Finance from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.