- Co-Chair, Advisory Development Council
- Retired – Dow
- Founder – P&N Technology Consulting
Biography
Beckerdite earned his B.S. in chemistry in 1976 and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1983 from Texas A&M University, spending time in the interim with the Texas A&M Food Protein R&D group. He spent 27 years with The Dow Chemical Company, serving as the Senior Intellectual Capital Leader for Dow's Performance Materials Division and also leading R&D for the combined $3 billion Amines and Oxygenated Solvents businesses.
After retiring from Dow, he became the chief technology officer for Exothermix and also served as head of intellectual property management for the TEES Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Division at A&M.
Beckerdite is the founder of P&N Technology Consulting, which provides technical and intellectual property services in the natural sciences.