CONSULTANT                                                                                                                     PRESENT

Performing consulting services in business development, commercialization of new products/technology and process development. Clients include major companies such as Sun Chemical, Noveon, Elementis, E. Merck, ISP Corporation, Novozymes, DSM and Octel Corporation

SPECIALTY INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS/LIPO CHEMICALS, Paterson, NJ              2000-2002 Director of Business Development

GAF CORPORATION/ISP CORPORATION, Wayne, NJ           1986 – 2000

Director of Process Engineering and Chemistry

MERCK, SHARP & DOHME RESEARCH LABORATORIES, Rahway, NJ     1982 - 1986

Engineering Associate

ASARCO, INC., South Plainfield, NJ          1977 – 1982

Senior Research Engineer

GAF CORP., Wayne, NJ      1973 – 1975

Process Engineer

HEBREW UNIVERSITY, RACAH INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS 1971 – 1973

Jerusalem, Israel

Chemist

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

MS, Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

BS, Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

AIChE, Sigma Xi

PATENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

J.M Cohen and R.W. Mead, “Mass Transfer at the Edge of a Rotating Disk”, presented at the 18th AIChE-ASME National Heat Transfer conference, San Diego, CA, July, 1979.

J.M Cohen, “Extraction of Arsenic and Antimony from Copper Refining Electrolyte”, presented at the 1983 International Solvent Extraction Conference, Denver, CO, August 1983.

J.M. Cohen, E.L. Paul and C.P. Hilber, “Scale-up of Batch Reactors-Consecutive, Competitive Reactions”, presented at the 10th Engineering Foundation Mixing Conference, Henniker, NH, August 1985.

J.M. Cohen, K. Larson and E.L. Paul, “Continuous Flow Precipitation of a Pharmaceutical Product in an Annular Jet”, presented at the AIChE National Meeting, Miami, FL, November 1986.

J.M. Cohen “Crystallization of Copper and Nickel Sulfate by Solvent Displacement”, presented at the Society of chemical Industry, Manchester, UK, July 1987.

J.M. Cohen “Applications of Solvent Displacement Crystallization in Hydrometallurgy” in Separation Processes in Hydrometallurgy, G.A. Davies, ed. Ellis Horwood Ltd., London.

J.M. Cohen, M. Tazi, J. Ardan and J. Zamora, “Process for Making Copolymers of Maleic Anhydride and a C1-C4 Alkyl Vinyl Ether having a High Specific Viscosity”, Euorpean Patent 92912312.5.

J.M. Cohen, L. Coyle, M. Tazi and J. Zamora, “Benzene-Free Maleic Anhydride/Vinyl Ether Polymers”, European Patent 92914152.1.

J.M. Cohen, R. Biss, J. Merianos and P. Taylor, “Process for Producing PVP/H202 Products in the Form of Free-Flowing Powders”, U.S. Patents 5,077,047.

J.M. Cohen, R. Biss, J. Merianos and P. Taylor, “Free Standing, Porous PVP/H202 Product”, U.S. Patent 5,177,113.

J.M. Cohen, :Terpolymer Resins Prepared by Solution Polymerization of Maleic Anhydride, Vinyl Acetate and Isobornyl Acrylate”, U.S. Patent 5,185,143.

J.M. Cohen and R. Biss, “Process for the Production of High Purity Vinyl Pyrrolidone” U.S. Patent 5,329,021.

J.M. Cohen, W. Young and P. Wolf, “Synergistic Effects in Kinetic Inhibition of Gas Hydrate Formation” presented at the ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 1997.

J.M. Cohen, P. Wolf and W. Young, “Method for Preventing or Retarding the Formation of Gas Hydrates”, U.S. Patent 5,273,524.

J.M. Cohen, P. Wolf and W. Young, Energy & Fuels, 12,2 (216-218) 1998.

J.M. Cohen, R. Biss, J. Zamora, K. Plochoka and J. Lynn, “Solvent-Free Process for making Copolymers of Maleic Anhydride and C1-4 Alkyl Vinyl Ether” U.S. Patent 5,595,053.

J.M. Cohen, R. Biss, J. Zamora, K. Plochoka and J. Lynn, “Solvent-Free Process for making Copolymers of Maleic Anhydride and C1-4 Alkyl Vinyl Ether” U.S. Patent 5,959,506

J.M. Cohen and W. Young, “Method for Inhibiting the Formation of Gas Hydrates”, U.S. Patent 6,093,863.

J.M. Cohen and W.  Young,  “Method for Inhibiting the Formation of Gas Hydrates”,  U.S. Patent 6,096,815.

J.M. Cohen, R. Biss, J. Zamora, K. Plochoka and J. Lynn, “Continuous, Solvent-Free process for Making Copolymers of Maliec Anhydride and C1-4 Alkyl Vinyl Ether”, U.S. Patent 6,451,944