Title: Member, Board of Directors
Category: Managing Professional
Education: Ph.D., Organic Chemistry; Executive Program (MBA Equivalent)
After graduating with his doctorate from Columbia, he was an Instructor and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University for two years. Dr. Turnblom is currently Vice President, Marketing and Director of Foresight’s Northeast Regional Office as well as a member of Foresight’s Board of Directors. He has diversified technical and business management experience, both domestically and internationally, in R&D management; new product development and commercialization; new business development; strategic alliance formation; business strategy development; new business start-ups; marketing and business planning; and environmental affairs management. Before joining Foresight, Dr. Turnblom had a distinguished career at Eastman Kodak, where he advanced from Director, Marketing and Business Planning, Bio-Products Division to Director, Business Development, Laboratory and Research Products to Manager, Business and Technology Development, Graphics Imaging Systems Division and finally Director, Environmental Affairs, Kodak Professional Division. He was instrumental in the formation of Kodak’s biotechnology business which ultimately became Genencor International. Dr. Turnblom is a member of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Development and Marketing Association, where he currently holds the Office of Secretary. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at WPI and has served as an Advisor to Tech Ventures, an upstate New York venture capital firm. Dr. Turnblom is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Rochester Professional Consultants Network.