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HATTIESBURG -- After five weeks on the job as president of the Area Development Partnership (ADP), J. Phillip Halstead is still working 'round the clock.
"ADP chair Paige York-Losee told me I'd be hitting the ground running, but geez, I love it," said Halstead.
Before Halstead, 54, moved to Hattiesburg, he served as the executive director of Pittsburg State University's (PSU) Business and Technology Institute, a university-based regional economic outreach organization comprised of seven operating units, 25 employees and a $3-million budget.
He served as director of the Kansas Polymer Research Center (KPRC) for seven years, during which time KPRC grew from four to 11 scientists, completed 10 bio-based materials competitive contracts, won a $2.2 million U.S. Department of Energy contract and partnered with Cargil, the world's largest and most successful private company, to commercialize soybean oil-based polyols for use in foams, coatings, adhesives, elastomers (robber) and other plastics materials.
Halstead, who earned undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees from Florida State University and is known for a creative leadership and financial management style, will apply his polymer experience to working closely with the Mississippi Polymer Institute at the University of Southern Mississippi to develop a polymer industry cluster in the region. Polymeric materials are increasingly used in the automobile sector, which continues...
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