2025-2026 SAMPE global executive cabinet and global board of directors announced

2025-2026 SAMPE global executive cabinet

• Global President – Allan Crasto, Ph.D, FSAMPE, Retired Executive Director, University of Dayton Research Institute
• Global Executive Vice President – Dr. Guy Larnac, Materials, Structures and Industrialization Technical Coordinator, Ariane Group
• Global Immediate Past President – Prof. Yiping Qiu, FSAMPE, Professor and Director Shanghai Key Lab of
  Advanced Micro & Nano Textile Materials, Donghua University
• Global Secretary – Rebekah Stacha, CAE, Chief Executive Officer, SAMPE
• President, China Region – Xiaosu Yi, Ph.D, FSAMPE, Li Duk Sum Chair Professor, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC)
• President, Europe Region – Conchúr Ó Brádaigh, Ph.D, Vice President at the University of Sheffield
• President, Japan Region – Kiyoshi Uzawa, Ph.D, Professor and Director, Innovative Composite Center (ICC) at Kanazawa Institute of Technology Japan
• President, North America Region – Ashley Tracey, Ph.D, Engineer, The Boeing Company

2025-2026 SAMPE global board of directors

Past Presidents 

• Past President, Europe Region – Christian-Andrew Keun, CEO, CompriseTec GmbH
• Past President, North America Region – Jerome Berg, Technology and Development Manager, Northrop Grumman, Aeronautics Systems

China region 

• Zhenghua Cao, Ph.D, Professor and Director, Composite Material Center of AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute, AVIC Composite Corporation Ltd.
• Yan Li, Ph.D, FSAMPE, Professor and Dean, School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University

Europe region 

Arnt Offringa, FSAMPE, Director, Global Technology Center Netherlands, GKN Fokker

Japan region 

Kazuto Tanaka, Ph.D, Professor, Doshisha University

North America region 

• Robert Brushaber, Engineering Division Director, Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc.
• Stephen Scarborough, Product Development Manager, Air Liquide
• German Reyes-Villanueva, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering University of Michigan-Dearborn
• Paul Wienhold, Principal Professional Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University