PRIME SEPARATIONS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Founder
Henry S. Kolesinski: Founder, Chief Executive Officer, R&D and applications development. Hank has many years of synthetic chemistry background with the Polaroid Corp. where he developed and patented numerous unique chemistries for the photographic industry. He gained his life science experience as a consultant to Millipore and Waters. He was the founder of Cohesive Technologies, a supplier of chromatographic instrumentation which was acquired by Thermo Electron Corp. He has several issued and pending patents relating to the separation industry and multiple technical publications. he received his degree in chemistry from Northeastern University.
Robert S. Cooley: Co-Founder, and President. Mr. Cooley is a recognized global market expert in the area of liquid chromatographic separations. Mr. Cooley founded YMC, Inc. and grew it to successful exit. Prior to YMC, Mr. Cooley held numerous senior management positions within Waters Corporation, the global leader for chromatographic separations. He successfully developed the first process scale HPLC for production as VP of Chromatography at Whatman Chemical Separations, Inc., and expanded the business by 30%. BS Chemistry/Biology, Norwich University; Graduate Programs
Steven F. McGrath: Consultant, is the retired director of the analytical laboratory for the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology. Since 1974, he has been involved with solvent extraction technology in the non-ferrous metals industry. He was a plant operator at the experimental Arbiter facility in Anaconda, Montana (operated by the Anaconda Company), which was the first modern solvent extraction-electrowining (SX/EW) hydro-metallurgical copper production facility in the state. Subsequently, he has worked in plants using ion exchange technology to extract metals from acid mine drainage (AMD) and has conducted research into novel acoustic mixing technology for use in solvent extraction mixers. He has consulted abroad for copper mining operations in optimizing SX/EW operations. He is very familiar with conventional mass transfer technology used in metal recovery operations.