The ChemQuest Group, Inc., a leading international business strategy firm in specialty chemicals, announces the addition of Dr. Victoria Scarborough as Vice President of Collaborative Innovation.
Dr. Scarborough is renowned worldwide as an R&D leader and subject matter expert for the commercialization of in-demand new technology that leverages open innovation. Her leadership strengths include aligning company stakeholders, external global partners, and multidisciplined technologists, for seamless, technology-driven marketing, finance, manufacturing, and R&D functions.
Dr. Scarborough earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Mary Washington and received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of TN Health Science Center (1979). She pursued an MBA from Christian Brothers University, and later participated in the Sherwin-Williams' Leadership Excellence Program at Case Western Reserve University. In 2012, Scarborough completed the Licensing Executives Society's Best Practices in Licensing: Developing, Negotiating & Executing Transactions program.
For the past 25+ years, Dr. Scarborough has advanced technology in the public and private sector ranging from the DoD and Federal laboratories, universities, and multinational corporations, to individual inventors and start-ups, often by creating and managing complex R&D and commercialization activities, with multimillion-dollar budgets.
From 1981-2007, as the R&D Director for Sherwin-Williams Company's WoodCare Group in Memphis, TN, Dr. Scarborough became widely known as a wood coatings' expert. For the next ten years, Scarborough honed her skills as the Director of New Technology (2007-2010) then Program Director of Global External Innovation for Sherwin-Williams (2010-2017).
Scarborough's diverse background at Sherwin Williams was a successful springboard for negotiating multiple technology licensing agreements, serving as an independent technical adviser while holding multiple patents in breakthrough technologies.