PAUL CASCONE SERVES AS Senior Vice-President of The Argen Corporation. He is responsible for research, quality control, technical services, assay & refining and manufacturing. He is also a Principal of HSE Consulting, specializing in product development and process improvement serving the metal and ceramic industries. Paul is an adjunct professor for Polytechnic Institute of New York and also consults for the National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C.

Mr. Cascone has over twenty years of product development experience with a major manufacturer of alloys and ceramics, has applied computer modeling to materials development and developed over twenty alloys. Additionally, he is a research engineer for a national consulting firm specializing in developing solutions utilizing powder metallurgy.

Mr. Cascone is a member of the American Society of Materials International, The Metallurgical Society, American Ceramic Society, and the International Precious Metal Institute. He has authored numerous publications on alloy development, metal-ceramic bonding, computer modeling of material systems and computer simulation of material processes.