Matt Greaney (right) Wins 2023 Ottenberg Award. Peter Rusch (left), Chair of Ottenberg Award Committee, presented the award at the Annual Picnic and Awards event on July 8, 2023.
Matt is a dedicated, talented, and hard-working member of SVACS who has served in several leadership roles in the Silicon Valley Local Section. He has served as Chair-Elect (2019)/Chair (2020)/ Past-Chair (2021) and as Councilor for five years. Prior to his election as Councilor, he was an Alternate Councilor for nearly a year. He has been active on several SVACS Committees: Executive Committee, Program Committee, Finance Committee, and the By-Laws Committee. He was co-leader of the SVACS Younger Chemists activities and initiated events for the Local Section that included a beer-brewing contest sponsored by Younger Chemists and Senior Chemists for several years. Following the success of that contest, he championed efforts to add beer tasting to our Annual Picnic & Awards event. In support of SVACS events, he spearheaded efforts to use Brown Paper Tickets for handling registration and payments. Matt also served on ACS Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs (2016-2021).
On behalf of our Section, he participated in the creation of the Bay Area Chemistry Symposium (BACS) inaugurated in 2019. BACS sponsorship comes from more than a dozen Bay Area companies, all the major universities in the Bay Area, and two Local Sections. Matt served on the planning committee for the first three annual symposia. BACS continues to receive rave reviews from attendees. The Silicon Valley Section and the California Section received a ChemLuminary Award in 2020 for the Best Local Section Industry Event for BACS.
Matt was co-author on 17 articles and is one of the inventors on a patent granted to Clariant, his current employer. In graduate school, he won three awards: ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award, Robert Bau Award for Excellence in Graduate Research, and a Chemistry Merit Scholarship.
Presentation of the Ottenberg Award was at the Annual Picnic and Awards event on July 8, 2023.
Submitted by Peter Rusch, Chair of the Ottenberg Award
