Dr Nikolas Kaprinidis received a PhD in Chemistry from New York University, followed with post-doctoral assignments at UC Berkeley and Columbia University. He has worked for 25 years at Ciba Specialty Chemicals and BASF holding various R&D, application development and technical marketing roles. Currently he is the Business Development Manager for chemical intermediates division and is focusing on specialty monomers and solvents for the inks and coatings industries.