David Dieterich Bio
Dave Dieterich is the executive-in-residence and partnerships director in the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) at Cornell University. As a member of the ACSF leadership team, he is involved in managing the crosscutting research activities and establishing and maintaining relationships with parties outside the university.
In April, 2007, Dave joined the Cornell University Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies as Director, Business Development. In January, 2008, Dave joined the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future in his current position.
Prior to coming to Cornell, Dave enjoyed a 33-year career at the Eastman Kodak Company. He held a number of senior executive positions in research, product development, manufacturing, and business including Vice President and General Manager. Common themes in his career were: bringing new technology-based products to market (soup to nuts); and enabling teams that worked across disciplines, functions, and geographies to bring solutions to the market. He was responsible for managing annual budgets in excess of a quarter billion dollars; organizations he has led have commercialized over 300 new products and services. Dave has lived and worked both in the United States and abroad.
He holds a Ph.D. (1973) degree in organic and physical chemistry, material science from the University of Illinois, Champaign – Urbana and an M.B.A. (1984) degree from the Simon School of the University of Rochester.
He lives in Ithaca, NY and Rochester, NY with his wife Sarah Elizabeth Moseley Dieterich, registrar of the Nazareth Schools in Rochester, NY.
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