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Milwaukee Section - American Chemical Society the amalgamator |
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Milwaukee Section - American Chemical Society the amalgamator |
| 2001 Milwaukee Section Award |
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Friday, November 16, 2001 Mount Mary College 2900 N. Menomonee River Parkway, Milwaukee, WI (Enter from 92nd Street) |
DIRECTIONS |
| 6:00 PM | - Social Hour |
| 7:00 PM | - Dinner |
| 8:00 PM | - Program |
Buffet Dinner:
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| Prices include tax and gratuity. | ||
| Members/Guests | .... | $19.00 |
| Chemistry Students | .... | $10.00 |
Sigma Aldrich is a life science and high technology company that offers over 85,000 unique products. These products are sold to over 60,000 accounts worldwide and represent about 1 million individual customers. With this breadth of products and customer applications, it is likely that every member of the audience has been involved in some way with a material or device that has included a Sigma Aldrich product in its development.
Sigma Aldrich is organized into four business units: Scientific Research, Biotechnology, Fine Chemicals, and Diagnostics. This talk will use an example from each business unit to show how Sigma Aldrich products contribute to improving the quality of life.
Jai Nagarkatti was born in India, where he received his bachelors degree from Osmania University in 1966, with majors in chemistry and biology, followed by a masters degree in 1968.
Upon immigrating to the United States, his graduate studies were performed at East Texas State University, now Texas A&M University. His research focussed on two areas of organic chemistry: the synthesis of porphyrins and porphyrin intermediates, and the synthesis and characterization of insect sex hormones. He received his masters degree in 1973 and his doctoral degree in 1976.
Jai has spent his entire professional career at Sigma Aldrich, joining Aldrich in 1976 as a production scientist. He was promoted to production supervisor in 1978, and in that same year was again promoted to Manager of Production at the St. Paul facility. In 1985, he was promoted to Vice President of Manufacturing, and in 1987 he became only the third President of Aldrich Chemical. Jai assumed the presidency of Sigma Aldrich Fine Chemicals (SAFC), one of four business units of Sigma Aldrich Corporation, in 1999. During his 12-year tenure as president of Aldrich, the company continued on an unbroken record of every year being a record year for sales, profits and number of employees. Market surveys show Aldrich to be the overwhelming market leader in supplying laboratory research organic chemicals. Jai has always emphasized the mandate to supply service that is second to none in the industry. Furthermore, he has continued to be a strong advocate of introducing new products that expand the breadth of our product offerings.
Under Jai's tenure as president, Aldrich also increased its support of community activities. Aldrich now sponsors three ACS National Awards, and brings the recipient of the ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry to Milwaukee each year to speak before the local ACS section. During Great Lakes Regional ACS Meeting held in Milwaukee, Aldrich organized and funded a symposium on Asymmetric Synthesis that included seven talks by world-renown scientists.
As president of Sigma Aldrich Fine Chemicals, Jai frequently commutes between St. Louis and Milwaukee. He resides in Thiensville with his wife Susan and daughter Shanti. Shanti is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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