Michael Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Michael Sullivan became COO of Amerityre in November 2014, was appointed CEO of Amerityre in April 2015 and became Board Chairman in December 2015. He has 30 years of Operations and Engineering Management experience in a variety of manufacturing and service industries. His career started at Johnson Matthey in 1987, where during his tenure he completed a 5 year expatriate assignment in Belgium, designing, constructing and managing Europe’s largest autocatalyst facility. He returned to the U.S. to become Production Manager for the company’s Wayne, PA facility. He has also served as Director of Manufacturing for General Chemical’s Electronic Materials Division, as Director of Operations for Life Measurement, Inc., a medical device manufacturer, as Director of Operations for Pinole Point Steel, a division of Material Sciences Corporation, as Chief Operating Officer at Professional Finishing, Inc., An Industrial coating company, and was a Principal at Versa Engineering and Technology, an engineering consulting firm. He has also managed his own management consulting firm, focusing on operations management, quality system auditing and implementation, business plan development, and strategic planning.
Mr. Sullivan has extensive quality management experience and is an IRCA certified auditor. He was a lecturer at UC Berkeley Extension in the subject areas of Strategic Marketing and Entrepreneurship. He holds a BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Lynda R. Keeton-Cardno, Chief Financial Officer
Since, 2004 Ms. Keeton-Cardno has been the CEO/Managing Member of Lynda R. Keeton CPA, LLC, dba Keeton CPA, an accounting firm based in Henderson, Nevada which provides accounting, audit and consulting services to public and private companies. Between January 1996 and April 2002 Ms. Keeton-Cardno worked for Arthur Andersen, LLP in Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada in the audit and advisory and technology risk consulting divisions. Ms. Keeton-Cardno is a licensed certified public accountant and received her accounting degree from Arizona State University’s School of Business and Honor’s College.