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HIGHL IGHTS A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | M A Y / J U N E 2 0 2 1 6 7 Higher Education Forum and the Council on Competitive- ness. He is senior fellow of the Council and on the board of One Columbus, responsible for Central Ohio’s economic development. Williams served on the ASM International Board of Trustees (2014-2017). He was president of the University of Alabama in Huntsville from 2007-2011. He served on the boards of the Tennessee Valley Corridor and the Alabama Business Council. Before Huntsville, Williams was vice pres- ident of research at Lehigh University and was chair of the MS&E department and director of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory. Williams holds B.A., M.A., Ph.D., and Sc.D. degrees from Cambridge University. He is a (co-) author/editor of 13 text- books and conference proceedings and (co-) author of 450 publications on electron microscopy of materials. He has given 300 invited talks in 30 countries and is a fellow of eight international professional societies in materials, micros- copy, and aerospace. Mr. John C. Kuli, Jr. Nominee for Treasurer John C. Kuli, Jr., is technology and innovation lead for operations within the Performance Alloys & Composites Division of Materion. His present role is focused on upgrading existing equip- ment and purchasing new equipment to drive new product growth. During his 30-year career with Materion, he has specialized in optimization of molten metal processing techniques, robust casting mold design and manufacture, and hot working process improvements for the manufac- ture of copper, nickel, and aluminum-base alloys. He is a co-inventor of Materion’s new high conductivity copper QMet 200 and QMet 300 alloys and holds patents in alumi- num processing and nickel-base alloy development. Kuli earned a B.S. inmetallurgical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was awarded both ASM and Alcoa scholarships. He began his engineering career with Alcoa (Arconic) where he specialized in equipment and process optimization for semi-continuous casting of high strength 7XXX aluminum alloys. Kuli joined Brush Wellman in 1986 focusing on casting of lean beryllium-copper alloys including installation of a horizontal continuous caster for thin strip. He then worked for Wagstaff as a customer ser- vice engineer and regional sales manager, installing and commissioning aluminum billet and ingot casting systems. Kuli returned to Materion in 1996 as a technical manager to optimize the design, installation, and production start-up of a new melt and cast shop supporting Materion’s 1996-1998 Coiled Strip Mill Expansion Project. Kuli is a 40-year member of ASM International and has always been involved with his local ASM Chapter. He is also active in the American Foundry Society, North American Die Casting Association’s Die Materials Committee, and Wire Association International. He currently serves as past chair of the ASM Technical Books Committee and membership chair of the Cleveland Chapter. Dr. Ann Bolcavage, FASM Nominee for Trustee Ann Bolcavage is engineering associate fellow for coatings at Rolls- Royce. She is responsible for strategic development of critical coating mate- rials and manufacturing technologies for surface engineering to provide through-life support for all products. Over the course of her career, Bol- cavage has focused on developing metallic and ceramic coatings and thin films, and her expertise includes the char- acterization of process-structure-property relationships leading to optimized thermal spray, chemical vapor deposi- tion, and physical vapor deposition processing methods for original equipment and repaired aerospace and industrial gas turbine engine components. Bolcavage joined Rolls-Royce in 2006 as a senior engi- neering specialist in Indianapolis and subsequently held roles as surface engineering manager (U.K.) and chief of materials capability acquisition before her appointment to the Rolls-Royce Engineering Fellowship in 2014. She also helped establish and build key research programs for sur- face engineering at the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (Va.) and at the University of Virginia Rolls- Royce UTC for Advanced Materials Systems. Prior to joining Rolls-Royce, Bolcavage worked at Praxair Surface Technolo- gies in Indianapolis. In recognition of her technical achievements and leadership, Bolcavage was appointed Fellow of ASM Inter- national in 2011. She has been active in ASM for 35 years, including leadership service in the Indianapolis Chapter and as Membership Marketing and Outreach sub-committee chair and board member of the Thermal Spray Society. Bolcavage received her B.S. with honors in materials science and engineering from Lehigh University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin-Madison. She has co-authored 20 technical publications, given 25 conference and workshop presenta- tions (eight invited), and has 19 patented inventions. Dr. U. Kamachi Mudali, FASM Nominee for Trustee U. Kamachi Mudali is vice chancellor of VIT Bhopal Kuli Bolcavage ASM NOMINATIONS