Biographies
Keith M. Glassford, Ph.D.
- Nanostellar Inc.’s Scientific Advisory Board
- Marketing and Technology Domain Expert for San Diego's CONNECT
Dr. Keith M. Glassford has more than 19 years of experience as a scientist, engineer and business leader across the Materials and Life Science sectors. He currently serves on Nanostellar Inc.’s Scientific Advisory Board, a privately held clean-technology company which develops nano-engineered catalysts for diesel automotive and stationary power industries. He advises the management and technical teams on new technologies, developing new application areas and helping to drive strategic partnerships for growth.
Keith also works as a volunteer for The LSIT Global Institute in helping to define a Good Informatics Practices guidance document for the health care industry. His specific emphasis is on understanding and defining the best practices for managing, securing, and leveraging data across the health care system from molecule to population.
In addition, Keith serves as a Marketing and Technology Domain Expert for San Diego’s CONNECT flagship Springboard program which provides strategic and financial guidance and development to life sciences, clean-tech, high tech and consumer product companies in all stages of development, ranging from concept, technology transfer to start-up, to companies that have reached a significant inflection point.
Most recently, he was Vice President, Chemicals, Materials & Manufacturing for Accelrys, a leading informatics and computational science company, where he had global responsibility for developing and deploying software and service solutions for the chemicals, materials and pharmaceutical industries. Previously, he held various positions at Accelrys including Director of Materials Science Marketing, Catalysis Consortium Director, Product Manager of Quantum Chemistry and Physics and Applications Scientist.
Prior to joining Accelrys, Keith held a multidisciplinary Postdoctoral position in Chemical Engineering, Physics, and Materials Science at the University of Illinois, where he worked on and developed quantum physics codes to study the properties of molecules, surfaces and materials. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. During this time, he applied quantum theory to understand the properties of transition metal oxides and developed force fields to simulate semiconductor materials.
