Our Staff

Executive Director

Kevin DiGregorio, PhD

Kevin is Executive Director of The Chemical Alliance Zone and Manager of both ChemAssist and ChemCeption. Kevin has a PhD in chemical engineering from West Virginia University and over 16 years of experience with Union Carbide Corporation and The Dow Chemical Company. He conducted biomedical research for his MS and PhD degrees and earned the Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society for his dissertation work. Kevin was awarded the Corporate Fellows Technology Award at Union Carbide Corporation for his work on in situ FTIR and enzyme catalysis and spent his last several years at Dow as the Change Leader at the South Charleston Technology Park. Kevin is a Director for the WV Regional Technology Park and TechConnectWV and serves on several academic advisory boards.  Kevin was inducted into the West Virginia University Academy of Chemical Engineers in 2015.