Primary Job Title President and Chief Executive Officer Primary Organization InEnTec
Location Richland, Washington, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Jeff Surma is President and Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of InEnTec. Prior to founding InEnTec, Mr. Surma was a senior research engineer at Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNNL) where he led multimillion dollar research projects in the areas of high-level radioactive waste vitrification,
electrochemical and plasma processing of waste. Mr. Surma is an inventor on 26 US patents and various international patents and has been the author or presenter of over 50 technical papers. Mr. Surma won the prestigious R&D 100 award four times for his work on plasma processing and associated technologies and was awarded the Pacific Northwest Directors Award for excellence in engineering. Mr. Surma led a multi-institutional team involving PNNL and the Plasma Fusion Center at MIT to develop plasma technologies that have since been commercialized through InEnTec. Mr. Surma holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University.
