POLYMATH INTERSCIENCE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Management
• Patent Attorney

Akins Doherty is a patent attorney whose practice focuses on all areas of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and intellectual property licensing. Mr. Doherty prepares and prosecutes patent applications relating to chemical compositions, biotechnology, business methods, and mechanical devices. His interests also center on international negotiation of oil and gas and hydrocarbons. An astute lover of technology, Mr. Doherty received a BS in Chemistry from Columbus State University and, upon graduating, worked at the NASA Space Medicine and Life Sciences Research Center at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where he researched the relationship between Vitamin D and salt-sensitivity. He also worked at the biochemistry department at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where his research centered on identifying biomarkers that can be used to identify HIV patients who are predisposed to developing accelerated end-stage renal disease. Desiring to become a patent attorney, Mr. Doherty thereafter attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor with a concentration in intellectual property law. There, Mr. Doherty was a member of the moot court board and competed in the 2011 Jerome Prince Evidence Competition in New York and in the 2009 Ben J. Altheimer Moot Court Tournament in Arkansas, where he was a finalist. Mr. Doherty is a named inventor in a US patent for the method for determining salt-sensitive persons and a named inventor in a US patent application for a method for detecting HIV-related proteins in urine. He is also a member of several organizations: the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Intellectual Property Division of the State Bar of Georgia, the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia, and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. Mr. Doherty is licensed to practice law in Georgia and registered to practice in patent cases before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He can be reached at akins@polymathi.com

Job Titles:

• Management
• VP Creativity and Lifestyle

Andrew attended St. Martin's College of Art & Design, in England, where he graduated with a degree in Graphic Design. After graduating, moved to San Diego, California to pursue a career in professional surfing; however, after a brief stint of pursuing this dream, he returned to England to begin a career as a Graphic Designer and landed a freelance design job at the prestigious Pentagram Design Studios. In 1991 Andrew returned to the United States, co-founded Eurotek®, a commercial and residential construction company that tackles challenging construction projects in and around Buffalo, New York, with his carpenter brother Raymond…and learnt carpentry. As a testament to his learning aptitude and perfectionist-traits, Andrew is now known as the gifted carpenter and designer who utilizes his extraordinary carpentry and design skills on TLC's Emmy nominated TV shows "While You Were Out" and "Trading Spaces". He has been voted by People Magazine as one of their "50 Most Beautiful", by Essence Magazine as a "2007 Do Right Man", is one of TV Guides "Hunkiest Carpenters", and is Oprah Winfrey's "favorite Handyman". Andrew is also a regular on CNN, "The View" and "The Tony Danza Show". With all the accolades and recognition attained as a carpenter, there still is much to Andrew that meets the eye. Andrew for example, is an astute graphic designer with an uncanny eye for symmetry and detail. He is a great orator and philosopher on society and lifestyle issues; he is a philanthropist, an applied mathematician (it was his favorite subject in College, and was so good at it that one would have thought that he would eventually become a mathematician) and an uncannily-quick learner. He volunteers much of his time to local and regional charity organizations, such as "Hands On Network", "AmeriCorp", "Kaboom", "Children's Hospice Foundation", SPCA and PETA, assisting with numerous fundraising activities; models for several upscale fashion agencies that raise funds for the "Cystic Fibrosis Foundation", and still maintains his semi-professional surfing skills.

Ben Davis received his Ph.D. in Chemistry, in 2001, from the Graduate School of the City University of New York, CUNY. His graduate research involved the photochemical hole-burning spectroscopic studies of porphyrins and the resonance Raman spectroscopic characterization of mass-selected transition-metal clusters. After graduation, he did his postdoctoral studies at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., where his research focused on investigating the light-harvesting characteristics of macromolecular Dendrimers. After postdoc-ing for a while, he decided to pursue his flair for law and letters, and proceeded to Law Rutgers School of Law-Newark where he received his J.D. in 2006. Ha has since been admitted into the NY and NJ State bars and is licensed to practice before the USPTO. Now as Chemical-Reviews-author-now-turned -lawyer, Ben focuses on the patent prosecution of innovations in science, engineering and technology.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Founder
• Scientist
• Management

David OBA Adebimpe is a scientist, philosopher, inventor, and visionary with over 16 years of professional academic and private sector experience in a diversity of areas such as enzymology and protein chemistry, applied spectroscopy, non-linear optics, human sociology, mechanistic and applied organic syntheses, olfactory science, organic device science and nanotechnology. After his professional mentoring and training from educational stalwarts such as Emmanuel Anosike (Biochemistry, Nigeria), Gerhardt Koshmel (Polymer Science, Berlin), Poopathy Kathirgamanathan (Smart Materials, Oxford, London), and Mike K. Shepherd (Organic Syntheses, London), and brief spells lecturing biochemistry and social psychology, David arrived in the United States to lead the research group of Alan G. MacDiarmid (Year 2000 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry) at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on fabricating novel conductive polymers and investigating their potential applications. He left UPenn to work briefly as a forensic chemist at the chemical coatings division of Sherwin Williams Paint Company in Chicago, after which he joined The City College of the City University of New York in 1997 as Center Administrator of the Center for Analysis of Structures and Interfaces (CASI) an NSF-Center of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST), where, under the directorship of Daniel L. Akins (Year 2000 winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Education in Science and Engineering), he managed the Center's four interdisciplinary research groups, student and outreach activities, and a budget of >$1million per year. During his tenure at CCNY, in which he was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, he was integrally involved in the conceptualization and establishment of CIRE, IGERT, REU and RET programs within the Center and in the establishment of the CUNY Ph.D. program in Nanoscale Science and Engineering. The Centers' acquisition of an additional $5.2 million in research and education awards during his 3.5 year tenure is also a standing record for the Center. Wanting to partake more in applied research, he joined GMA Industries Inc. in 2001 as a Senior Member of Technical Staff. He quickly established an active applied chemistry and nanotechnology division that went out to seek SBIR grants on his concepts and vision of nanomaterials applications. Although his NIH-based proposals were not funded at that time as they were considered "futuristic" "anecdotal" or did not have the involvement of a medical doctor (one of these was the use of odor sensors for the detection of cancer), over the next six years he became a major force within the small-business R&D realm, known for his innovative approaches and dependability for delivering the goods, and was principal investigator on a series NASA, USAF and USN sponsored R&D and SBIR efforts. At GMAI, David was integrally involved in the conceptualization of scientific phenomena that led to acquisition of over $3 million in R&D contracts in areas as diverse as applied spectroscopy, functional composite materials and coatings, biological and chemical sensors and IC chip design. He also took two of the three SBIR grants that he was PI, to a technical readiness level (TRL) 9 commercialization level, months before the contract deadlines, inventing XScent™ and NanoApps™ product lines. David left GMAI in June 2007 to form Π, and is currently collaborating with a number of researchers from various Universities in the development of concepts and ideas for the near-term ( 3 - 5 years) and longer-term ( 10 to 20 years), having the aim of developing these concepts into beneficial and robust real-world deliverables. His interests lie in first principle design, syntheses and exploitation of smart materials, applied spectroscopy, organic device science, and the application of logic, social psychology and justice, and learning to play the saxophone. Present activities involve the development of materials of controlled structures and properties, understanding the fundamental properties of these materials, and the integration of such materials into novel, workable devices and applications. David holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, an M.Phil. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, and a B.Sc. with Honors in Biochemistry with Psychology.

Job Titles:

• Attorney at Law
• Product Manager
• Management

Deon Hines is the product manager for ∏'s ScentLogix™ group of products. Prior to joining ∏ in February 2008, she was a member of technical staff at GMA Industries Inc. where she conducted DoD-based R & D activities in cutting-edge areas such as the fabrication of functionalized carbon nanotubes as nanoscale electronic noses for circuit board testing, explosives/hazardous material detection, and the fabrication of novel conducting polymer-based field-effect transistors as blueprints for all-organic logic systems. Prior activities have included research into the next generation composites that can be applied toward the production of next-generation vehicles, structures and components for deployment into space, the detection and quantification of NO2 and SO2 present in aerosol particles and studies on the levels of pollutants in drinking water samples collected from various parts of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York; and the analyses of particulate matter within indoor and urban air samples. OSHA trained and certified, she has interned as a Health and Safety Investigator at the Queens General and Elmhurst Hospital, Queens, NY, and currently also maintains ∏'s health and safety standards ensuring compliance with OSHA and EPA guidelines and environmental regulations. In addition to her research endeavors, she also actively partakes in the voluntary tutoring and mentoring of children diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at the Brookdale University Hospital, the Medical Center's Comprehensive Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Program, and sponsors a child in Zambia through the Children International program and St Judes Research Hospital. A true hybrid of beauty, humanitarianism and brains, with life experiences that have shaped her to become an individual who has achieved academic and professional success through determination, perseverance, and commitment, Deon has been the recipient of academic honors such as being class valedictorian, and of scholastic awards such as the Sloan Foundation Minority Scholarship (2002-03), Albert & Frances Hochman Scholarship Award (2003); Academic Excellence Award (2000), CUNY Outstanding Leadership and Service Award (1999-2000), Student Government Scholarship Award (1999 & 2000), Outstanding College and Departmental Service Award (1999), made the Deans List, uninterrupted, from 1998 - 2000 and is a founding member and former Vice-President of Student Association for the Environment (SAFE) (1999); Deon holds a Masters Degree in Analytical Chemistry (2003) and a B.Sc degree in Environmental Science/Chemistry (2000), the latter of which she graduated Summa Cum Laude and as the valedictorian of her class.