Dr. Rakesh Kumar

Dr. Rakesh Kumar is currently the Vice President of Technology for Specialty Coating Systems, Inc., where he leads the R&D group and manages Parylene research and development activities worldwide.

His prior work experience includes technical and management positions with United Panel, Inc., Lucent Technologies, OptronX, Inc. He has more than 20 years of extensive experience in the development of polymeric materials and their applications in the medical, electronics and semiconductors areas. He is currently involved with the application of Parylene coatings in the field of medical including medical devices, electronics, MEMS, and nanotechnology. 

Dr. Kumar earned his undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees in Chemistry from Gorakhpur University in India, and completed his post-doctorate work in polymer chemistry at the University College London, U.K. He is co-author of a book and has authored several published papers and patents.

 

 

Lonny Wolgemuth

Lonny Wolgemuth is Sr. Medical Market Specialist for Specialty Coating Systems.  His focus includes expansion of SCS’ medical markets activities and new medical applications for Parylene conformal coatings.

Wolgemuth has been active in the medical device industry for over 35 years, with experience ranging from in-hospital clinical engineering to product management, market management and national technical support management for international medical device manufacturers in patient monitoring, wound care and patient temperature management.  He has been active in technical medical device standards writing committees for patient temperature management devices, and has testified before FDA device classification panels (tcPO2 monitoring devices).

Wolgemuth earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree at Purdue University and holds   a Master in Business Administration degree from The State University of New York.