Paul Osenar

Overview

Dr. Osenar founded Protonex in 2000 with a number of colleagues and served as the Company s Chief Technical Officer from 2000 to 2010. In November 2010 he was promoted to Chief Executive Officer and President. With the company s acquisition by Ballard Power Systems in October 2015 Dr. Osenar became President of the Protonex subsidiary. Dr. Osenar has had primary responsibility for the technical direction of Protonex since inception and has been a direct participant in the Company s corporate strategy creation financing efforts (including a 2006 IPO) product development efforts manufacturing scale up and partner negotiations. He also served on the Board of Directors from the company s inception to its acquisition. He has extensive fuel cell experience that includes proton exchange membrane (PEM) development and characterization PEM stack and system design and fueling solutions (13 patents issued 45 pending). Dr. Osenar has broad experience in the development and productization of advanced materials and systems. Specifically he has worked in thin films for the electronics industry traditional polymer synthesis organic synthesis and novel composite materials synthesis and application in nanotechnology. His educational background is in materials science engineering polymer science and organic chemistry. Dr. Osenar received a B.S. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Illinois.