Primary Job Title Senior Technical Adviser & Co-Founder Primary Organization 
Polyplexx
Location South Charleston, Ohio, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
Richard M. Gerkin is Senior Technical Adviser and past President of PolyPlexx. He is the co-inventor (with Dr. Derderian) of the technology. Dr. Gerkin received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1968 and a B.S. in Chemistry from Wheeling Jesuit College in 1965. He began his technical career in industrial
research with Union Carbide Corporation at the South Charleston Technical Center in 1969. His work continued with OSi Specialties when it was spun off from Union Carbide in 1993, and with the successor companies Witco Corporation and Crompton Corporation. He retired in June of 2002 as a Corporate Research Fellow.
