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Doing Business With Us
Commercial Sales Team
Our commercial sales team leverages years of expertise to help our clients solve complex challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
Director, Commercial Business Development and Sales, Critical Infrastructure, Rare Earth, Circularity and Semiconductor
Darcy has over 15 years of experience in technical sales, business development, and engineering across various industries, including agriculture, pulp and paper, power generation, and semiconductor manufacturing. He ensures exceptional customer engagement, driving success by understanding and meeting the unique needs of each client.
Jon Cartlidge
Director, Commercial Business Development and Sales, Critical Infrastructure, Carbon Capture
Jon brings over 25 years of expertise in technical business development and sales, representing chromatography, lab automation and specialty chemical companies prior to joining Battelle in 2013. His role here has been to face customers across several industrial sectors and he is proud to have helped drive the creation of Battelle Carbon Services, a dedicated business for the support of commercially funded Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects. Jon’s passion is to ensure that those who are interested in capturing and storing CO2 are provided clear communication and exceptional customer service from Battelle’s technical and administrative teams.
Bud Collura
Director, Commercial Business Development and Sales, Environmental, Oil and Gas, Emerging Contaminants, Cyber, Advanced Materials
Bud brings 9 years of extensive experience in the oil and energy industry, specializing in downstream, midstream, and upstream applications. Additionally he supports advancements in cyber and advanced materials research. With a robust background in key account management and specialty chemical services, Bud has consistently driven growth and forged impactful partnerships across various sectors.
Howard Easterfield
Director, Commercial Business Development and Sales, Crop Protection Solutions
Howard is a seasoned chemist with 25 years of experience across multiple sectors including crop protection, industrial chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. At Battelle, he leverages his extensive background in scientific research, regulatory affairs, and project management to assist clients in developing and registering chemical and biological crop protection products. Additionally, Howard applies his expertise to support the development and registration of products in other sectors such as biocides, veterinary medicines, and industrial chemicals, ensuring comprehensive success from production to commercialization.
Health
André LaFreniere
Vice President, Medical Device Solutions
André LaFreniere leverages his 20 years of experience in healthcare technology to advance opportunities and solve challenges in healthcare. Andre’s product development and commercialization knowledge spans collaborations with commercial clients across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics, and healthcare systems to solve complex problems and change healthcare for the better.
Breck Petrillo
Director, Commercial Business Development and Sales, Medical Device, Pharma/Drug Delivery, Data Science, Health
Breck brings over 30 years of experience in healthcare technologies. He has expertise in product realization, hands-on development and engineering, project planning and management, operational leadership, and strategizing for commercialization. He ensures exceptional customer engagement by understanding the complex challenges of each client and delivering efficient, collaborative solutions.
Chris Kocheran
Director, Commercial Business Development and Sales, Health
For over 6 years, Chris has supported the execution of commercial programs in medical device technologies and life sciences research as a member of Battelle’s operational team. His collective experience has allowed Chris to understand the attributes common to successful programs that allow complex technical programs to be delivered on time and on budget. Within his current role, Chris applies these lessons learned to new development projects to ensure a balance of problem solving (often involving innovation) and adherence to the operational boundaries (financial, temporal, etc.) of the program.
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