The role of the board is to provide CAMO with advice and guidance for a successful growth of The Unscrambler’s user base, customer satisfaction and company success.

Carl A. Anderson
- Assistant Professor, Mylan School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Duquesne University

Carl Anderson received his BS degree in chemistry from California State University - Fullerton in 1990. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 under the direction of Professor Alan J. Bard. He joined the company that would become Aventis Pharmaceuticals in 1995 and worked there until 2002. During that time, he was responsible for the development, validation, and implementation of near-infrared (NIR) analytical methods. Carl joined the faculty of Duquesne University in the summer of
2002 as an assistant professor in the Mylan School of Pharmacy where he leads a research group investigating industrial pharmaceutical applications of analytical technology and pharmaceutical applications of chemical imaging. He is currently a member of ASTM E.55 Pharmaceutical Application of Process Analytical Technology and has been recently elected vice-president of the Council for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.

David W. Hopkins
- NIR Consultant, Battle Creek, MI

Dave Hopkins earned his Ph. D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1971, using UV-visible spectroscopic and immunologic techniques to study the conformational changes of a light-sensitive protein. After post-doctoral positions, he joined DICKEY-john in 1978. He was Lab Supervisor and responsible for the lab determinations moisture, protein, fat and fiber, and the determination of NIR calibrations. By producing Universal Calibrations for wheat, barley, corn, soybeans and many other food and feed products, he helped make NIR widely used in the food and agricultural markets. In 1986 he went to Kellogg Co, where he led the NIR group in producing calibrations for many finished foods and raw materials. In 1992 he formed his own consulting company to bring his experience to companies either manufacturing NIR equipment or wishing to employ NIR technology effectively. He has worked in the pharmaceutical, food, chemical, and petrochemical markets. He offers a training course in using NIR effectively, through the American Chemistry Society or Applied Chemometrics. He is an expert user of The Unscrambler.

Diane F. Malley
- President, PDK Projects, Inc

Diane Malley received her BSc and MSc Degrees in Zoology from the University of British Columbia and in 1972 earned a PhD degree in Zoology from the University of Michigan. She engaged in teaching and research at a developing university in Penang, Malaysia from 1973 to 1975, then took a Visiting Professor position at the University of Victoria from 1975 to 1976. Diane spent the following 21 years as a Research Scientist at the Freshwater Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada where she worked in freshwater science. She has held several appointments as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Manitoba. In 1990, she was introduced to near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and utilized it in her research with Fisheries. Taking early retirement in 1997, Diane formed a family-based company, PDK Projects, Inc., that offers NIRS applications research, consulting, and education in the environmental and agricultural fields. Company personnel have utilized The Unscrambler for applications ranging from analysis of grains, flour, compost, animal manures, soils, and sediments, and published on many of these applications.

Frank Westad
- Research Scientist, Norwegian Food Research Institute (Matforsk)

Frank Westad received an M.Sc in Chemistry, Instrumental Interfacing and Data analysis in 1988, and completed his PhD thesis “Relevance and parsimony in multivariate modelling” in 2000 with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His working experience over the years include positions as Chemical analyst with Nycomed A.S., Research Scientist with SINTEF, Consultant with IDT GmbH (Germany), Application Specialist with CAMO ASA and –currently- Research Scientist with the Norwegian Food Research Institute (MATFORSK). Frank published 12 refereed papers within chemometrics and spectroscopy, 12 articles and proceedings from conferences, and contributed in a Scandinavian textbook on chemometrics. Frank’s experience also includes holding presentations at international conferences and teaching courses in statistics, chemometrics and multivariate methods.

Gary E. Ritchie
- Consultant, Integrated Technical Solutions Inc.

Gary E. Ritchie brings 19 years of experience in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry. He started out at Danbury Pharmacal, Inc. / Schein Pharmaceutical Inc as a scientist in quality control and advanced to methods evaluation in Technical Transfer, culminating as a Senior Scientist. This was followed by 11 years of service with Purdue Pharma LP. During his tenure at Purdue Pharma, Gary was a principal scientist in the Pharmaceutical Analysis, New Technologies Group at Purdue Pharma. Gary chaired an ad hoc committee known as the Near Infrared Validation Working Group (NIRVWoG) and helped to revise and update General Chapter <1119> Near-Infrared Spectrophotometry. Gary has developed NIR methods for the quantification and qualification of pharmaceutical dosage forms and investigated validation schemes for laboratory and process NIR instrumentation. A noted expert in the field of NIR, he has extensively researched, published and made presentations on the regulatory implications of validation approaches for NIR methodologies for use in GMP environments.
Gary is currently the chair of the ASTM E13.11 subcommittee on Chemometrics, and is also a member of Committee E55 on Pharmaceutical Application of Process Analytical Technology. He also is a member of the American Chemical Society, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, The Coblentz Society, and the Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy. From 1999 to 2001, he served as secretary of the New York Section, Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
Mr. Ritchie holds a Masters of Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Bridgeport.

Harald Martens
- Adjunct professor at The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Senior Research Scientist, Norwegian Food Research Institute (Matforsk)
- Professor II Centre for integrative genetics, Norwegian Agricultural University

Harald Martens received an M.Sc in Industrial Biochemistry in 1971, and completed his PhD thesis on Multivariate Calibration in 1985 with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Some of Harald’s research areas have been: Mathematical unmixing of amino acid mixtures in grain (Kampala University, Uganda and Kyoto University, Japan), Physical chemistry of proteins (University of Lund, Sweden), NIR spectroscopy of processes (University of California) and Mathematical modelling of video sequences (IDT Gmbh/Dynapel Inc). In 1981, Harald started the development of The Unscrambler, which CAMO took over from 1984. To date, Harald has published over 150 research paper and four books. Harald received three international chemometrics awards, among which the Herman Wold gold medal in 1999.

Howard Mark
- President, Mark Electronics

Howard Mark got his start in the application of Chemometrics in 1976 when he joined the NIR development group of Technicon Instruments. There he developed and wrote the algorithms for using MLR and later, PCR to calibrate the instruments, as well as applying them to solving customer problems. He created the first transferable calibration (for protein in wheat), brought the concept of Mahalanobis Distance to the Chemometric community, and many other "firsts". He is the senior author of the well-received series of columns "Statistics in Spectroscopy", which later became "Chemometrics in Spectroscopy", and which has been running since 1986, as well as publishing roughly 150 peer-reviewed papers and presenting over 75 lectures at various scientific meetings. He is now president of Mark Electronics, a consulting company for Chemometric and Statistical data analysis, NIR spectroscopy, and custom software and instrument development.

Phil Williams
- PDK Projects, Inc

Phil Williams received his PhD degree from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales in Chemistry in 1958, and began his career in Australia at the Agricultural Research Institute, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. During his 37-year career with the Canadian Grain Commission, Phil Williams pioneered the practical application of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) that played a key role in the early establishment of the NIR industry. His work started with the earliest commercial NIR instrument in 1972 and quickly led to converting protein testing for Canada's export wheat to NIRS between 1975 and 1977. In his 32 years of experience with NIRS, Phil introduced the technology, in addition to Canada, to Australia, Europe, Russia, the Middle East and South America; worked with more than 50 types and models of instruments; and has written step-by-step operating manuals for several NIR instruments and software packages. His contributions include co-editing one of the major reference books in the NIRS field, in its second edition in 2001. In this government career and since forming PDK Grain, a division of PDK Projects, Inc., Phil has been consulted widely for his NIR expertise by grain, feed, forage, fibre, and major food companies, research organizations, universities, Canadian and foreign government departments, and international organizations.

Tony Davies
- Independent Consultant, Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy

A.M.C. (Tony) Davies is an independent consultant on NIR spectroscopy with Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy and is editor of the Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy and NIR news published by NIR Publications. He also runs short courses on NIR spectroscopy and chemometrics, mainly in collaboration with Tom Fearn. Tom Fearn and Tony are also engaged in the private (unfunded) development of CARNAC-D, a data-based method for quantitative analysis. Tony also writes and edits half of a column (the Tony Davies Column) in Spectroscopy Europe (another Tony Davies writes the other half!).