Cody Reynolds, Ph.D.

Career Objective

Solve problems that affect consumers & industries alike, and culture design innovations through from problem to conception, to implementation.

Employment History

2012-Present

Co-Founder: Additive Drug Delivering Devices, INC (AD3)

Title: CEO

Responsibilities: License and develop IP, seek partners and clients, raise funding through private investment and public grants, and recruit an executive team & technical employees.

2012-June 2015

Employer: Clemson University, Clemson SC

Title: Post Doc (2011-2012), Research Associate (2012-Present)

Specialty: : Drug delivering devices & marine arresting devices

Responsibilities: Develop new medical & marine polymer-based technologies in conjunction with industry needs. Work was performed in part as a sub-contractor of Leidos, a Fortune 500 company, to fulfill government grant objectives, and foster both graduate and undergraduate research projects & professional development.

2007-2011

Employer: Clemson University, Clemson SC

Title: Graduate student, research assistant

Specialty: Drug delivering fibers

Responsibilities: Created and carried out experimental plans related to but not limited by a given dissertation topic. Coordinated experiments between university departments, liaised with industry and academic partners, and promoted the department of Materials Science & Engineering through research presentations at professional conferences. Instructed and tutored undergraduate students as a laboratory class assistant.

2006- 2007

Employer: Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Umatilla OR

Title: GCMS Chemist II

Responsibilities: Completed air quality testing and documentation of a U.S. Army chemical weapons destruction facility. Confirmed or refuted reported chemical agent exposures, analyzed routine air samples, and performed all maintenance functions of GCMS & GCFID instruments.

National Security Clearance: 2006 National Agency Check: Adjudicated National Security Check 2006-2016.

2005- 2006

Employer: Specialty Polymers, Woodburn OR

Title: Quality Control Chemist

Responsibilities: Independently analyze and adjusted final products and reacting emulsion polymerizations.

AD3 INC

2015

Licensed relevant medical device technologies from Clemson University & Hills Inc

Dec 2014

Recruited experienced CEO advisor as consultant with expectation of a permanent hire upon further funding

Nov 2014

Converted LLC to C-Corp

July 2014

Licensed competitive medical device technology from Hills Inc.

March 2014

Gained membership to South Carolina Research Authority investment group SC Launch & preliminary funding

Nov 2012

Founded AD3 LLC with Co-founders Scott Sullivan (MD/MSCR), Christopher Cox (PhD), and Douglas Hirt (PhD).

Summer 2012

Semi-finalist in SEBIO’s annual Business Plan Competition.

June 2012

Participated in NSF’s I-CORPS early market identification program as the Entrepreneurial Lead.

Education

Dec 2011

PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from Clemson University: specialization in drug delivery systems

May 2004

BA in Chemistry from Whitman College: specialization in quantitative analysis instrumentation

June 2000

Honors diploma from San Luis Obispo High School

University Disclosures

January 2015

Bi-component dry spinning method for creating co-entangled environmentally responsible superabsorbent & self-adhesive construct

August 2014

A pessary device to contain medicament for the prevention of premature labor. US provisional patent filed May 12, 2014.

2012-2014

Environmentally friendly non-lethal construct for the occlusion of marine propulsion systems.

August 2011

Method for incorporating 95% by weight medicament into a device for continuous release for durations up to 3 months.

March 2009

Novel method for the incorporation of heat-sensitive drugs into polymers without the use of toxic solvents

March 2009

Internal bi-component geometry for the long-term delivery of incorporated medicaments. US utility patent filed March 2011.

Skills

Instrument Proficiency

UV/VIS Spectroscopy

High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)

Gas Chromatographic Mass Spectrometry (GCMS)

Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)

Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

Machine

Proficiency

Research scale single and bi-component melt spinning extruders

Research scale wet & dry spinning extruder

General mechanical aptitude

Languages

English: native

Spanish: conversant

Health & Sport

High School

Varsity swimming & water polo goalie (4 years)

College

Rugby (4 years)

Graduate

Water polo coach & goalie (4 years)

Current

Crossfit & obstacle fitness events (eg Spartan Beast Race)

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