Operations professionals in Specialty materials
Morgan Advanced Materials appears in three of these specialty materials operations histories, from its Thermal Ceramics business in Asia to its Americas operations, with Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials, Chemours, Versum Materials and Momentive among the other employers. Titles range from plant manager and site leader to production planning and COO, so they suit a maker adding capacity, spreading best practices across plants or scaling a new material such as aerogel.
Professionals to explore
Brian McCarter
LinkedInExperience: Former Director of Operations - Americas · Morgan Advanced Materials
Aerogel manufacturing scale-up questions suit Brian McCarter, Vice President of Operations - Grenzebach Corporation at Grenzebach Group (since 2026) and Director of Operations - Americas at Morgan Advanced Materials (2025–2026). Brian held Vice President, Global Manufacturing - Aerogel (2023–2025) and Senior Director Of Operations (2022–2023) at Aspen Aerogels and Director of Operations at Johnson Matthey (2019–2022).
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Bruce Seidel
LinkedInExperience: Director North American Operations - Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials · Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials
Balancing plant operations with financial targets is the question for Bruce Seidel, Director North American Operations - Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials since 2019, who describes merging operational objectives and corporate financial demands. Bruce was VP - Operations at Giorgio Foods (2014–2019) and Director - Plant Operations (2003–2014) and Director - Supply Chain Management (2000–2003) at Surgical Specialties Corporation.
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Bryan Sautter
LinkedInExperience: Former Director of Operations, Specialty Chemicals · Entegris
Site startup questions fit Bryan Sautter, Director of Operations at FAR Chemical, Novopor Advanced Science (since 2023), and Director of Operations, Specialty Chemicals at Entegris (2020–2023) and Senior Site Leader, Operations and Site Maintenance at The Chemours Company (2015–2020). Bryan cites greenfield startups, mergers and acquisitions and scaling high-tech materials over 30+ years from DuPont, Chemours and Entegris.
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Cheng Lin
LinkedInExperience: Chief Operations Officer · Zhejiang Xinan Momentive Performance Materials
At Zhejiang Xinan Momentive Performance Materials, Cheng Lin has been Chief Operations Officer since 2018, and also holds Chief Technology Officer (since 2015) and ChemOps Engineer Senior Specialist (since 2009) titles at Momentive. Cheng describes responsibility for production, process and manufacturing technology, a fit for questions on process technology and production in China.
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Gregory Bolton
LinkedInExperience: Director Operations · The Chemours Company
Gregory Bolton holds Director Operations at The Chemours Company (since 2023), a role Gregory describes as Director Quality and Capacity Advanced Materials, and was Manufacturing Technology Manager there (2016–2024). Gregory was Global Technology Manager at DuPont (2005–2015), a fit for questions on quality and capacity planning for advanced materials.
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Himangshu Barman
LinkedInExperience: Former Asia Operations Director · Morgan Advanced Materials
Himangshu Barman became Asia Operations Director at Morgan Advanced Materials in 2025, linked to its Thermal Ceramics business, after General Manager - India Operations (2021–2025) and General Manager - Operations (Gujarat) (2018–2020) at ALKEGEN. Himangshu was also Deputy General Manager - Manufacturing Operations (2014–2017) and Deputy General Manager - Manufacturing & Engineering (2017–2018) at Kohler Co. and lists lean transformation, a fit for lean and plant operations questions in India.
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Karl Nolte
LinkedInExperience: Former Operations Director · Versum Materials
Since 2019, Karl Nolte has been Operations Director at Versum Materials, after Plant Manager there (2007–2019), and was Plant Manager at Air Products (1998–2007). Karl describes substantial safety improvement while reducing costs, and supply chain disciplines including safety, health, environmental and production, which makes Karl a fit for plant safety and cost questions.
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Santosh Bhide
LinkedInExperience: Global Operations Director · Morgan Advanced Materials
Global Operations Director at Morgan Advanced Materials since 2023, Santosh Bhide was Operations Director - Asia at Morgan Advanced Materials, Thermal Products Division (2017–2023) and Head - Operation Excellence, India operations at SUN PHARMA (2016–2017). Santosh describes work on asset strategy, strategic investment, cost reduction and horizontal deployment of best practices across manufacturing and supply chain, a fit for best practice rollout questions.
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Shane Penman
LinkedInExperience: Director of Operations · AB Specialty Silicones
Production planning and inventory at AB Specialty Silicones are the fit for Shane Penman, Director of Operations there since 2025, who held Production Planning Manager (2021–2025) and Sales & Inventory Analyst (2019–2021) at the same company. Shane was also a Distribution Manager Trainee at Uline (2018–2019).
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Yvan Langenraedt
LinkedInExperience: Operations Manager CMS · Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials
Yvan Langenraedt is Operations Manager CMS at Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials (since 2020), and held COO (2007–2020), Site Manager (2013–2020) and Quality Manager (1997–2007) titles at Quadrant and Site and operations manager EPEC Tielt at QUADRANT EPP BELGIUM NV (2017–2020). Yvan describes COO work at Quadrant CMS (injection molding) and site management at Quadrant EPP (extrusion), a fit for molding and extrusion questions.
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Choose the right perspective
For operations spanning several countries, Santosh Bhide, Himangshu Barman, Bruce Seidel and Brian McCarter hold or held global, Asia, North American or Americas titles. Karl Nolte and Bryan Sautter are the plant and site leadership picks, Gregory Bolton covers quality and capacity, and Shane Penman, Cheng Lin and Yvan Langenraedt suit production planning, process technology and molding and extrusion questions.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide when to add a production line for a specialty material versus squeezing more out of existing ones?
- 02How do you spread a best practice from one specialty materials plant to sites in other countries without losing it locally?
- 03What changes in operations when a new material moves from pilot production to commercial volumes?
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