Management
David
Adebimpe
Founder / CEO
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.
ScentLogix™, aimed at biological and
analytical detection of explosives, narcotics and other hazardous
materials, is his latest invention. |