Ronald Amey is a Research Fellow (retired) in the Specialty Materials group of INVISTA S.a r.l., a wholly-owned Koch Industries Wichita, KS) company.
Ron’s nearly 40-year research career in chemistry at E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Inc. and INVISTA spans a wide range of specialty chemicals, materials, and end-product applications. His work as project and team leader led to the development and commercialization of a novel biocide for use in marine-antifouling paints, new intermediates for synthetic musk compounds in fragrances, and a family of specialty amines used for curing and cross-linking epoxy coatings, paints, and composites. He is the inventor/co-inventor on twelve U.S. patents and the recipient of two DuPont Co. Corporate Marketing Excellence awards for his product and application development work with downstream customers.
Ron received his BS degree in Chemistry from Lehigh University in 1974 and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1979. He and his wife Gail, a retired IT System Analyst for DXC Technologies Inc., are active in the Philadelphia Zoo and international travel programs focused on animal conservation.