Noel Bolduc is the director of research and technology at ARC Technologies LLC, a division of Hexcel Corporation. He is responsible for maturing technologies and bringing new products to market. He leads a group with extensive materials and process engineering experience capable of rapidly optimizing a product to meet a customer’s application-specific requirements. Mr. Bolduc has almost 30 years of industry experience, specializing in formulating RF-functional materials to meet a wide range of demanding environmental conditions. He started his career as a plastics process engineer and went on to work in the consumer plastics and medical devices markets before joining the specialty coatings and aerospace community almost 20 years ago. Mr. Bolduc holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.