DISCOVER THE ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE ACS DIVISION OF SMALL CHEMICAL BUSINESSES

By: Jennifer Maclachlan, Mukund Chorghade and Peter Bonk

Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society

New Haven, CT Thursday October 24, 2013 #NERM2013

The American Chemical Society Small Chemical Businesses Division (SCHB) garnered ACS full status approval in 1980

In our thirty-third year our mission remains the same: to aid in the formation, development and growth of small chemical businesses

SCHB continuously provides relevant programming at National and Regional ACS Meetings for those who currently own and operate their own small chemical businesses as well as to those budding entrepreneurs amongst us.

ABOUT SCHB

TO QUOTE BILL CARROLL IN A 2011 NESACS LECTURE: “ACS IS YOUR

PROFESSIONAL NETWORK”

I couldn’t agree more.

SCHB IS THE PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL NETWORK YOU WANT TO

UTILIZE

In this presentation we will discuss numerous networking opportunities at Local Section, National & Regional Meetings

Social media connnectivity with other business-minded chemists via SCHB social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and to members only content on the ACS Network

Find out what member benefits this small division of ACS has to offer you with your startup or growing small chemical business.

THE ACS DIVISION OF SMALL CHEMICAL BUSINESSES OFFERS MANY ENTREPRENEURIAL

RESOURCES TO ITS MEMBERS

Membership is free for the first year then $15 annual dues Deeply discounted booth exhibit space at National Meetings

$500.00 Business listing on our website with a link to your website Outstanding programming at National, Regional and NEW! In

2012 at Local Section Meetings  At the heart of it all: amazing networking opportunities NEW! in 2013 utilizing an Innovative Project Grant fund

(IPG), SCHB began participating in other scientific society meetings such as AAAS Meeting, APS March Meeting and CLEO Conference

SCHB MEMBER BENEFITS

PATRON MEMBERSHIPS Corporations or organizations wishing to become Patron

Members are those that wish to foster the Division’s objectives as defined in the SCHB Bylaws II, Section 3. These objectives include the following:

• To aid in the formation, development, and growth of small chemical businesses.

• To address the legal, social, educational, legislative, regulatory, and economic needs of self-employed chemists and ACS members who are employed by small chemical businesses.

• To encourage, promote, and organize personal interaction among members of the Division and other chemists, institutions, or organizations interested in the promotion of free enterprise among chemists.

• To serve as a clearinghouse for information about services available to members engaged in or planning to start small chemical businesses.

• To provide liaison between small chemical businesses needing part-time employees and chemistry students needing income and experience.

• To provide the expertise and experience of its members to the SOCIETY and for the betterment of the public.

Annual dues for Patron Members are $200. Ask any SCHB Officer on how your organization can qualify for Patron Membership.

new

• This is a new program we started at the Fall National Meeting in Indianapolis

• The Monday lunch we co-hosted with the ACS Division of Professional Relations (PROF)

• We invited SCHB sponsored and co-sponsored National Meeting speakers to networking lunches

• We used social media to promote these lunches

• We expect to continue to these lunches at National Meetings

Here’s an example of how SCHB promotes sponsors on event signage:Patron Member Osha Liang and PID Analyzers.

#ACSNOLA

SCHB used IPG funds to plan entrepreneurial programming at our sister scientific society meetings

Mukund Chorghade, SCHB Past Chair and Jack Driscoll, PR Chair, NESACS spoke about Satisfying Entrepreneurial Career Cravings

at the AAAS Meeting Career Pathways Workshop in Boston February 2013

Additionally, the Division together with the Local Section (NESACS), with materials supplied by the MOS Boston, coordinated a chemistry outreach table at the AAAS Meeting Family Science Days

The American Physical Society

Meeting was the 2nd of 3

“other scientific society”

meetings SCHB

programmed at in the first half of 2013.

Joe Sabol, SCHB Program Chair at APS, Baltimore, MD 2013

CLEO Conference in San Jose, CA June 2013: SCHB rep Anis Rahman planned Entrepreneurial Programming and staffed an SCHB booth

This was the third in the installment of pre-identified *other scientific society meetings* that we organized entrepreneurial programming for in 2013.

SCHB OFFERS A FULL & COMPREHENSIVE TECHNICAL PROGRAM AT ACS NATIONAL

MEETINGS

#ACSindy

REGIONAL MEETINGS: CERMACS

Tool Kit and Success Stories a half day technical program at #CERM2013 including our flagship American Chemical Society programming: Trues Stories of Success, Resources for Start-ups and Best Practices for Chemical Entrepreneurs rolled into a half day program at the Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Regional Meetings: GLRM

ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses (SCHB)representatives Michael Haukaas and Joseph Sabol at the ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting - GLRM 2013Awards Reception June 6, 2013. #GLRM2013 — in La Crosse, WI.

#GLRM2013

Small Chem Biz is a semi-annual publication that is released before the National Meetings

SCHB sends out monthly eblasts to keep members informed about Division news and events

CM&E is a topical group of the New York Section, ACS. SCHB sponsored this group's December meeting (Thursday, 12/6/12 at the Yale Club in midtown Manhattan). This was the first CM&E presentation of Awards for (Chemical Industry) Leadership as well as a topical meeting (Third Annual M&A Outlook), which supported STEM education. In addition, local high school student Chris Hillenbrand. 2012 Chemistry Olympiad Gold Medalist, was recognized at the meeting. SCHB Members David Deutsch and George Ruger were in attendance.

In fact, one of our True Stories of Chemical Entrepreneurs speakers tomorrow at NERM is, Neil Burns, Director at CM&E

#WRM2013 Meeting Planning Session at #ACSNOLA

Joe Sabol, SCHB Program Chair with Natalie McClure and Lee Latimer, Co-Chairs of the 2013 ACS Western Regional Meeting

Joseph E. Sabol was a speaker at the Younger Chemists' Committee "Career Day," sponsored by the Milwaukee Local Section of the American Chemical Society, Milwaukee WI, November 10, 2012. 

At the Florida Section of the ACS Meeting #FAME2013opening reception with Stan Seelig, SCHB Chair and Dr. and Mrs. Dean F. Martin PhD, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

As seen in C&EN October

14, 2013 issue:

Saluting Team Spirit

“Like” the SCHB Facebook page for frequently updated information facebook.com/SCHBD 

SCHB tweets:twitter.com/ACSSCHB

Members only content on the ACS Network  

Monthly eblast to members

Linked-In Discussion Group

Connect with SCHB

 True Stories of Success from Chemical Entrepreneurs, George Ruger

Best Practices for Success in the Business Innovation Environment, John Newsam 

SCHB Poster Session, George Ruger  SCHB Sci-Mix, George Ruger  Chemical Angel Network: Chemists Investing in Chemical

Companies, Sid White andMark Vreeke  All in the Family: Pros and Cons of Running a Business

with Members of your Family,Daniel Kazhdan  The Intersection of Intellectual Property and Energy, 

Kirby Drake  Incorporating Intellectual Property into Your Business

Decisions: From Start-Up to Exit, Keisha Hylton- Rodic  Avoiding Legal Headaches: A Primer for Start-ups and

Small Businesses, Keisha Hylton-Rodic  Innovations in Materials: Properties Solving Problems, 

Joe Sabol 

Early stage chemical startups, investors & partners

Are invited to participate in the ACS Entrepreneurial Resources Center Showcase

EastWednesday April 9, 2014 in Waltham, MA

Lastly, join SCHB for The Entrepreneurial Event of 2014

For more information about this event, please use the email sign

up sheet