Adam Blakeley, MSF
Adam Blakeley is the Director of Technical Services for the US and Canada with MacDermid Enthone as well as the North American Product Line Manager for Pretreatment. Adam received his BA in History from The Citadel and his MA in History from Converse College. Adam is designated an MSF through the Foundation, the Technical Education Director for the NASF Palmetto Chapter, a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for NASF, and a board member with the NASF Foundation. Adam writes extensively on technical finishing topics and has been featured in the Surface Finishing Educational Association, Surface Technology Environmental Resource Center, Finishing and Coating Magazine, and Products Finishing Magazine. He’s been a featured guest lecturer at Converse College, an expert panelist for IMTS Spark, and teaches science, film, literature, and rhetoric for middle and high school students. He’s been married for 14 years and has 5 children.
Doug Deeken, MSF
Doug Deeken is an independent metallurgical and special processing consultant with expertise in failure analysis, heat treatment, electroplating and organic finishing systems. He has 24 years of experience with aerospace, food processing, pressure vessel, automotive and polymer processing products. His experience includes work for Aerospace Fortune 500 OEMs. He has a Bachelor’s in Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Youngstown State University (1997).
Francis DiGiovanni, CEF-3, CAF
With over 43 years of expertise in the metal finishing industry, Francis has built a distinguished career working with three major suppliers of chemicals for the metal finishing sector. Their experience extends to leadership roles at five contract plating shops, where they served as Production Manager and Technical Manager, overseeing complex operations and technical processes. After a long and successful career, Francis transitioned into retirement and now applies their extensive knowledge as a part-time consultant, helping clients optimize metal finishing processes and achieve operational excellence.
Jeffrey R. Lord, MSF
Jeffrey R. Lord, MSF, is Principal of the Black Company Environmental and provides consulting services for surface finishing clients to systematically and cost-effectively transform processes and plants towards the highest technical performance, quality and efficiency while improving profitability. Mr. Lord has over 40 years of and industrial R&D and EH&S management experience. He works principally with metal finishers and has done design, construction and set up of operations. His main focus is process control, process optimization and troubleshooting of metal finishing processes. He has worked for wide variety of private industry clients in aerospace, automotive, chemical manufacture and other manufacturing industries and for US and foreign government agencies. He has been an AESF Foundation course instructor for nearly 35 years and is a regular instructor of all their course offerings. He started off his career teaching high school chemistry and physics and has been an instructor at all levels instruction from elementary to professional his entire professional career. He has a MS in Physical Chemistry from Boston College (1983) and a BS Chemistry/Education from SUNY Cortland (1978).