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Ann Beal SalamonePresident, ROCHAL INDUSTRIESAnn Beal Salamone is President of Rochal Industries LLP, a private research company which develops new biomaterials for wound and burn care. She has 12 US patents with their foreign counterparts and is a co-founder of three scientifically-based companies. Polyonics invented and has provided polymeric materials for flexible and multi-layered integrated circuit manufacturing for 23 years.Rochal Industries, Inc. invented and licensed a landmark class of materials for wound care which has been sold throughout the world in hospitals/nursing homes and over the counter for 18 years. Rochal Industries LLP has licensed its initial invented material which is being sold in select countries and the USA for veterinary care. Additionally, she served as President or Vice President of the Enterprise Development Corporation, a South Florida science and technology incubator. During her tenure, EDC's Clients increased aggregate revenues by more than $98 million, raised more than $74 million in outside funding, created 5,013 jobs, produced annual salaries of $109.5 million, and provided $5.6 million in annual sales tax revenues. Ann was elected Chairman of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Polymer Division (8,000 members) and has served in a variety of other roles within POLY. She is a co-founder of the Intersociety Polymer Education Council, a joint effort of the ACS and the Society of Plastics Engineers which has provided hands-on in-services to over 200,000 K-12 science teachers since 1991. She is an Inaugural Fellow of the ACS and a Fellow of AIMBE and the recipient of the Crystal Slipper Award "Executive Woman of the Year – 2002". |
