Sundar Veeraraghavan, UES Inc.

Sundar Veeraraghavan, PhD, manages emerging products at UES Inc., a Dayton-area science and technology firm and an R&D 100 Award winner. At UES, he focuses on helping to mature and bring to market the cutting-edge technologies that his colleagues develop in materials science, surface engineering, power and propulsion, lasers and photonics as well as bio- and nano-materials. UES provides these R&D services and products to commercial and defense markets. Sundar is a product commercialization professional who has worked in R&D, Marketing and Clinical functions for over fifteen years in diverse university, consulting, large corporation, startup, and small business environments. Key topics: changing landscape of defense manufacturing, the Defense Manufacturing Assistance Program, how to attract a highly skills workforce.