Dr. Richard W. Baker received his doctorate in physical chemistry in 1966 at Imperial College, London. Following a number of industrial appointments, in 1982, Dr. Baker founded his second company, MTR, where he served as president for 25 years. In 2007, Dr. Baker stepped aside as MTR's president, but remains active as a member of the Board of Directors and is leading a new development program for MTR's membrane-based biomass/biofuel ethanol separations technology.