Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization 
Pangborn Associates
Location Santa Barbara, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Dr. Pangborn is the founder of Pangborn Associates, LLC, which advises pre-IPO companies in the chemical, materials, and energy industries.
Past and current clients include Diversa, Materia, CSP Technologies, Metabolix and Genomatica. Dr. Pangborn has also served as a senior advisor to Cargill’s Industrial BioProducts Division, and played a key
role in helping to develop and implement strategy for this key corporate growth initiative.
Previously Dr. Pangborn was employed at Dow Chemical in a variety of R&D and business leadership roles, rising to the post of Vice President of Central Research and Development.
He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Dartmouth, attended Harvard Business School, and was an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.
