MIKE SIWAJEK
VICE PRESIDENT, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Mike Siwajek joined the ThyssenKrupp Budd Company R&D group in December 1999 as a Material Development Engineer and transitioned to Continental Structural Plastics with the rest of the Budd Plastics team in July 2006. Before becoming Vice President of Research and Development, Mike served as Director of Research and Development, heading up CSP’s development in carbon fiber and lightweight composites.
Mike earned his B.A. in Chemistry from Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI) in 1992 then went on to obtain his Ph.D. in Synthetic Organometallic Chemistry from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) in 1999.