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Doing Business With Us
Sales and Business Development Teams
Our commercial sales and business development teams leverage years of expertise to help our clients solve complex challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
Chief Commercial Officer and Senior Vice President of Commercial Business Development and Sales
Melinda Sych is responsible for commercial revenue growth across the Health, Environment, National Security, and Infrastructure markets. Mel has held executive roles at Fortune 500 companies, leveraging her expertise to shape and refine commercial business strategies, improve sales operations and infrastructure, and enhance the growth and scalability of products and solutions. She is committed to delivering unparalleled value through operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
Environment and Infrastructure
Darcy Brown
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.
Jeff Lee
Director, Commercial Business Development and Sales, Carbon Management, Climate Resilience, New Energy
Jeff has over 24 years of experience in technical consulting, commercial strategy, and business development in carbon capture and storage, hydrogen hub, soil carbon, critical minerals, and other climate resilience initiatives. With a background in oil & gas and large infrastructure development, he has provided technical and commercial expertise to clients on project development, due diligence, and economic modeling. Jeff focuses on helping clients connect the dots between climate technologies, new energies and carbon management.
Dan Longbrake
Director, Commercial Business Development and Sales, PFAS, Emerging Chemicals, Permitting, Environmental Compliance
Dan leads and facilitates commercial engagements to develop and advance Battelle’s PFAS and environmental technologies, tools, and services. He has over 36 years of experience in the environmental industry. Dan joined Battelle in January 2021, and since that time has focused on developing and executing go-to-market strategies, creating alignment and nurturing client relationships, and positioning Battelle as a trusted partner.
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.
Roya Mohadjer
Senior Vice President of Government Business Development
Roya Mohadjer is responsible for government revenue growth across the Environment, Health, National Security and Infrastructure markets. Roya has over 15 years of business development experience in climate and energy, human health and performance, and defense systems and platforms. She fosters collaboration across government and commercial markets to optimize technology solutions for mission critical needs.
Environment and Infrastructure
Allen Davis
Vice President, Environment and Infrastructure Business Development
Allen Davis has more than 20 years of experience overseeing federal business development activities associated with environment, agriculture, critical infrastructure, research infrastructure, and chemical demilitarization. He is responsible with driving client engagement, opportunity development, and capture for all federal clients in the environment and infrastructure markets. Allen focuses on creating long-term growth strategies for clients by addressing their evolving technical needs.
Health
Aliza Ali
Vice President, Health Business Development
Aliza Ali, with 15 years in federal government contracting, specializes in business development, capture, and proposals across the healthcare, preparedness and response, and public health sectors. She manages client relationships, develops opportunities, and supports new business growth for the health team. Her expertise ensures thorough execution of the business development lifecycle, aligning capabilities with client needs for successful program delivery.
National Security
Michael Silvestro
Vice President, National Security Business Development
Michael brings over 25 years of experience from the military, legislative, and private sectors. As the National Security business development lead, he focuses on creating customer-centric, innovative solutions for new and evolving challenges for government clients. Throughout his career, he has concentrated on sustainable growth, strategy development, executing mergers and acquisitions, and managing profit and loss.
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