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TSS Board of Directors

The ASM TSS Board Mission statement:

TSS shall be the leading global source for thermal spray information.
TSS …. Your thermal spray information partner.

Dr. Rogerio Lima
Vice President

(2020-2022)
Senior Research Officer
National Research Council of Canada
Boucherville, QC, Canada

Dr. Andrew Ang
Secretary/Treasurer

(2020-2022)
Research Engineer
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Molly O’Connor 

Member

(2021-2024)
R&D Prof. Advanced Ceramic Materials
Praxair Surface Technologies

Mr. William Lenling, FASM, TSS HoF
President

(2020-2022)

Founder/CTO
Thermal Spray Technologies’, Inc.
Sun Prairie, WI

Prof. Andre McDonald, Peng., CEng, PE, FASM, FIMMM, FIMechE
ASM BoAssociaten
(2022-2023)
Associate Vice President (Strategic Research Initiatives and Performance)
and Professor
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada

Dr. Luc Bianchi
Member

(2019-2022)
MRO Process Engineer and R&T Manager
Safran, SA
France

Mr. Dominique Billieres
Member

(2022-2025)
Business Development Manager
Saint Gobain Coating Solutions
Avignon Cedex, France

Dr. Jan Cizek
Member

(2022-2024)
Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences
Prague, Czechia

Mr. Friedrich Herold
Member

(2020-2023)
CEO Castolin Eutectic 2015-2017
EVP Oerlikon Metco Materials 2005-2015
Wellington, FL

Prof. Thomas Klassen
Member

(2020-2023)
Helmut Schmidt University
Hamburg, Germany

Dr. George Mauer

Member

(2022-2025)

Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH

Jülich, Germany

Mr.Timothy McKechnie, FASM

Member

(2018-2024)
President
Plasma Processes LLC
Huntsville, AL

Dr. Daniel Sordelet, FASM
Member

(2021-2024)
Caterpillar Inc.
Peoria, IL

Dr. Filofteia-Laura Toma
Member

(2020-2023)
Fraunhofer Institute Material and 
Beam Technology (IWS)
Dresden, Germany

Mr. Jens Igel
Student Board Member

(2022-2023)

Ruhr University Bochum

PhD Student
North Rihine Westphlia, Germany

Mr. Abhijith Sukumaran
Student Board Member

(2022-2023)

Graduate Research Assistant
Florida International University
Miami, FL

Mrs. Nicole Hale
Director of Membership & Affiliate Societies 
ASM International
Materials Park, OH

Mrs. Mary Anne Jerson
Administrative Assistant
ASM International
Materials Park, OH