BNNT Materials
Company Profile
BNNT Materials is the world’s leading producer of strong, flexible nanoscale ceramic fibers – known as boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT) or white graphene nanotubes – that have a wide range of extremely promising and highly profitable industrial applications.
Both the technology and the team of BNNT Materials was spun out of NASA and US Department of Energy (DOE) national labs. As a world leader in one of the most promising areas of materials technology, the company has become a key area of American competitiveness and enjoys strong government support as it innovates ahead of other countries including China, Korea, Japan, Canada, and Australia.
NASA Invention of the Year
Presented 2017 for NASA's 100th anniversary
Tom Henneberg
Chief Executive Officer
Tom Henneberg, CEO, co-founded and helped grow Boeing’s new Ventures team and a cleantech IPO; McKinsey strategy consultant; Navy SEAL officer. Engineering degree, US Naval Academy; Johns Hopkins; MBA, Stanford. 7 patents.
R. Roy Whitney, PhD
President
Previous CTO, CIO, and co-founder of US National Lab. Roy earned a PhD in nuclear physics from Stanford University. 17 patents.
Kevin C. Jordan, PE
Chief Engineer
World-leading expertise in lasers and particle accelerators from four decades at US National Labs and multiple foreign labs. 38 patents.
Michael W. Smith, PhD
Chief Scientist
Led nanotechnology during a 22-year career at NASA. He specializes in fluid dynamics and earned a PhD in aerospace engineering from Princeton. 30 patents.