Masood Akhtar, Ph.D.
Masood is Chief Executive Officer of BioPulping International, a University of Wisconsin spin-off. He co-founded the company in 1996 to commercialize biopulping after serving as biopulping project leader at the University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center/USDA Forest Products Laboratory from 1989 to 1996. Prior to joining the Forest Products Laboratory, Masood served as a Post-doctoral fellow in Plant Pathology at Ohio State University. Dr. Akhtar has Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in Microbiology (Botany) as well as M.S. and B.S. degrees in Botany, Chemistry and Zoology from Aligarh Muslim University in India. Masood also serves as the President of CleanTech Partners, Inc. of Middleton, Wisconsin. Contact Dr. Akhtar at: makhtar@biopulping.com. Click here for a short biography. Click here for Dr. Akhtar's CV.
BioPulping Senior Staff