David Abecassis completed a DEUG (French jr. year diploma) in biology with a minor in geology from Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III University of Sciences. He went on to finish a BS in Biochemistry with a minor in microbiology at the same university.

A graduate of Rutgers Cook College and, and Bush Campus Piscataway, and a Texaco

Foundation Research Fellow, David completed a joint masters degree with thesis, in

industrial microbiology, and environmental science under Richard Bartha, PhD.

Graduate work was carried out on oleophillic fertilizers used in the Valdez Oil Spill, and in particular Inipol EAP-22.

David has since gone on in his studies and earned post graduate level Edx.org

certificates from a variety of institutions which include(2) in Intellectual property from University of Pennsylvania Law School,(2) Contract Law and Technology Negotiations from Harvard Law School,(6) Economics and Sustainability from Columbia University, (1) in Economic Development from Oxford University( 1) and Plastics Packaging Sustainability from Delft University and (1) in Cannabis studies from Doane University. David is a continuous lifelong learner and also regularly attends Directors Roundtable to study board governance best practices for corporate governance.

After Graduate School, David worked as a sales engineer for Polymer Research of

America in Brooklyn NY for 2 years before founding his own polymer consulting firm in Huntington NY, and subsequently Farmingdale State University’s incubator. President of Industrial Polymer Research & Engineering, David Abecassis managed a network of chemical professionals and university relationships to use polymer chemistry and materials science to develop high performance coatings, additives, adhesives, gels, composites, and plastics to develop customer-driven products and solutions from 1997-2014.

David Abecassis’s team went on to innovate the first efflorescence blockers for concrete ( Concrete Council), the foam structure in what is now Dow Chemical” Great Stuff”, the world’s first septic tank N-removal system which captures nitrogen for re-use as ammonia( a hydrogen fuel cell substrate), a cold-drawn electrically conductive water-based coating with 300% cold deformation and precise maintained electrical conductivity( Corus Group), and among other innovations, the world ’s first mass producible plastic nano-composite platform, ( google: “Towards a new Generation of Superplastics, ACS 2010). Intellectual property publications in materials is extensive (www.uspto.gov, search patents “Abecassis” + “Huntington”, “Huntington Station NY” as search terms)