Update: Non-Secret Happenings at MRI Global.

Dr. Thomas Sack is MRIGlobal’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Since November 2012, he has been responsible for all MRIGlobal research operations, generating approximately $100 million annually in contract research in global health, energy, and national security and defense while managing 500  technical staff, including chemists, biologists, engineers, and microbiologists, working in nine U.S. locations and overseas.

With more than 35 years’ experience, Dr. Sack is skilled in developing highly performing interdisciplinary teams to address unique technical issues. He manages operational aspects of more than 190,000 square feet of state-of-the-art laboratories, biosafety containment facilities, chemical surety operations, a mobile laboratory production facility, as well as more than 150 acres of agricultural field stations and a solar technology test facility.   He is responsible for MRIGlobal’s partnership in the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, which manages more than $450 million in research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Dr. Sack led MRIGlobal’s successful certification to the International Organization Standardization’s (ISO) 9001 quality management standard. Dr. Sack’s technical specialty encompasses high-performance applications of mass spectrometry, the chemistry and detection of chemical warfare agents and related materials, analytical method development for trace analysis, and program management.

Dr. Sack received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Rockhurst College, and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He joined MRIGlobal in 1985.