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New Business Development Network (NBDN)

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The NBDN is comprised of professionals working in Commercial Development and New Business development and focuses on developing and sharing strategies and tactics to improve the conversion of technologies to cash.    

 

Why join NBDN?

Member Testimonials
I am proud to say that I am a founding member of NBDN. The group began based upon the idea that innovation doesn't start and end with R&D. Our first organizational meeting was standing room only and ever since there has been no lack of agenda items or discussion topics. With the Global Recession and the current downsizing going on across industry, it is even more important that we make innovation quicker and less costly. I find the roundtable discussions and the specific topics on the agenda to be highly relevant.
John Tao
Vice President, Open Innovation, Weyerhaeuser
NBDN Member since 2005

Who are NBDN members?

Chair:  Brian Seiler (Eastman Chemical)
Member Roster
Number of members
:  115
Professionals involved in the following fields benefit from membership:  New business and commercial development, Marketing/sales development, New products development, Mergers and acquisitions, Portfolio management, Strategic alliances, Market research, Technology transfer

 

Member companies represented:

Air Liquide
Air Products
Alcoa
Archer Daniels Midland
BASF
Bayer MS
Boeing
Ceramatec
Champion Technologies
Chevron
Chevron Phillips
Corning
Crown Holdings
CSIRO
Deere & Co.
Dow Chemical
Dow Corning

 

DSM
DuPont
Eastman Chemical
ExxonMobil
Genencor
GM
Georgia-Pacific
IBM
ICL-IP
Infosys
Intertek
Invetech
Johns Manville
Kennametal
Kraton Polymers
Lord Corporation
Milliken

Northrup Grumman
Owens Corning
Pepsico
Phillips66
Praxair

Procter & Gamble
RTI International
Schneider Electric
Sealed Air
Sherwin-Williams
Solvay
SRI International
Teknor Apex
Tredegar Film
Valspar
W.L. Gore
Xerox