Biographical Summary

Werner H. Mueller, Ph.D.

Work Experience

1998-Present            President

CHD Technologies Inc

Charlotte, North Carolina

1993-1997       Director of New Business Development and Head of Group Engineering

Specialty Chemicals Group

Hoechst Celanese Corporation (HCC)

Charlotte, North Carolina

1990-1993       Technical Director

HCC Chemicals Group (Budget $30MM)

Corpus Christi Technical Center

Corpus Christi, Texas

1988-1989     Associate Director of R&D, HCC Advanced Technology Group Corpus Christi, Texas

1985-1988      Manager of R&D Industrial Chemicals

Hoechst Celanese Corporation

Specialty Chemicals Group

Coventry, Rhode Island

1984-1985       Assistant to Manager of Chloroaceticacid Plant

Hoechst AG

Knapsack, Germany and Baton Rouge, La

1983-1984      Research Specialist Information Technology Division

Hoechst AG

Kalle Albert, Wiesbaden, Germany

1980-1983       Assistant to Hoechst AG Member of the Board

Responsible for R&D

Frankfurt, Germany

Special assignments, e.g. preparation of presentation dealing with the topic of Safeguarding Energy and Raw Materials

1972-1980       Group Leader/Program Leader, Organic Chemicals Division

Hoechst AG

Frankfurt, Germany

1968-1972       Senior Research Chemist/Research Specialist

Monsanto, Textiles Division

Pensacola, Florida

Educational Background

1967-1968       Postdoctoral Fellowship

Research Institute of Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

R&D in medicinal chemistry, e.g., antimalarial phenothiazine amino alcohols

1965-1967       Ph.D. in Organic/Technical Chemistry

Technical University

Munich, Germany

Dissertation: “Novel Reactions with the Vilsmeier Reagent”

1961-1965       Master of Science in Organic Chemistry

Technical University

Munich, Germany

Thesis: “New Quinoline-Fluorene Merocyanine Dyes”

Publications/Patents

Author and/or Co-author of numerous publications and more than 80 U.S. and European patents