ABOUT UAMMI

UAMMI is the connecting point for Utah’s Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Industry!
The Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI) brings together public, private, community, industry and education partners to assure growth and sustainability of Utah’s advanced material and manufacturing industry.
The mission of UAMMI is to ensure that Utah is the global leader in value-added advanced materials, manufacturing, technology development, and design by integrating industry, academic and government contributors in ways that enhance collaboration, promote business opportunities, share knowledge resulting from relevant research and engage a skilled and trained workforce.
Our guiding principles are to:
- Innovate Advanced Material: Our focus is on expanding the innovation and use of all advanced materials with a primary emphasis on carbon composites, along with other materials including ceramics, biomaterials and materials yet to be developed.
- Growth Through New Uses: We foster and encourage new uses of advanced materials in all applications, across all industries, and integral to all manufacturing.
- Industry Solution: We actively seek solutions to today’s industry-relevant problems and challenges.
- Relevant Research: We encourage and support all relevant research conducted by academic, corporate and independent researchers that leads to the discovery of new advanced materials, new uses for these materials and the adoption of new manufacturing processes that produce measurable benefits.
- Alignment: We leverage our resources with those from selected partners delivering services and programs complimentary to our own in order to increase our impact and benefit to the industry.
Utah’s History in Aerospace & Advanced Materials
Advanced manufacturing and materials began in Utah during the space race of the 1950’s when two Utah based explosives companies, Hercules and Thiokol, developed expertise to improve missiles with carbon fiber. Orbital ATK, which resulted from the merger of Hercules and Thiokol along with Hexcel continued the carbon fiber business. Today, many of the materials and processes used in advanced manufacturing around the world have been developed here in Utah.
This early beginning has expanded to include well over 100 Utah businesses ranging from startups to large companies developing advanced materials for a wide variety of aerospace components, medical devices, industrial products, recreational equipment and more.
In addition, Utah’s supply chain has significantly diversified to include manufacturing, material suppliers, and service-based companies performing sophisticated design and analysis. Through all this, Utah has developed a worldwide reputation as a leader in advanced manufacturing.

UAMMI Partners
SAMPE - Society for Advanced Materials and Process Engineering
Dept of Workforce Services
i5 Services
GOED - Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development
EDCU - Economic Development Corporation of Utah
UMA - Utah Manufacturing Association
University of Utah - SCI Institute
IACMI - Institute for Advanced Composites Innovation
NAM - National Association of Manufacturing
IMCP – Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership
America Makes
Vertical Flight Society
The Graphene Council
The Graphene Council is the leading source for graphene research, commercial application, news and intelligence. UAMMI and the Graphene Council have partnered to help strengthen each others outreach efforts and missions.
Utah Industry Resource Alliance
UIRA is Utah’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Representative, part of a national network of MEP centers in every State of the Union. The UIRA’s all-star team of coaches, practitioners, and industry experts provide services to all 29 Utah counties with one purpose: Help Utah Manufactures Grow and Thrive.
Women's Tech Council
Founded in 2007, WTC focuses on the economic impact of women in driving growth for the technology sector. WTC builds programs that amplify and create tech talent to support more women in technology careers from high school to the board room.
Office of Local Defense Community Operation
UAMMI Team

Tulinda Larsen
Executive Director
Dr. Tulinda Larsen is Executive Director, Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI), a public-private partnership to elevate the advanced materials and advanced manufacturing industry in Utah.
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She began her career in Washington, D.C. as an economist at the US Department of Transportation, where she gained experience in the air transport industry. For more than 40 years, she has been a practicing economist studying various aspects of the aerospace industry.
Dr. Larsen is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Business, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide Campus. She holds a Doctorate of Management from University of Maryland Global Campus, BA and MA in economics from The George Washington University.
See more about her at: https://www.tulindalarsen.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/tulinda-larsen-40aa3a10/

Chanel Flores
Deputy Director
Chanel Flores is currently serving as the Deputy Director for UAMMI. In this role, Ms. Flores will lead UAMMI’s implementation of the Utah Defense Manufacturing Community (UDMC) programs and contribute to the SBA Regional Innovation Cluster programs which help grow the advanced manufacturing and materials industry in Utah.
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Ms. Flores will also bring expertise gained from her accomplishments at GOED such as: playing an instrumental role in adding Advanced Manufacturing as Utah’s 7th strategic industry cluster, leading efforts to officially designate Utah as a Defense Manufacturing Community by the Department of Defense and advocating for the future of advanced air mobility in Utah by leading a recent study which analyzed the economic development impacts of air mobility implementation on Utah communities.See more about her at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanel-flores-47325490/

Brent Strong
Chief Technology Officer
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Cathy Blomquist
Administrative Assistant
Cathy provides administrative support for UAMMI as well as the SBA RIC and Defense Manufacturing Community program. Cathy brings administrative assistant skills that she developed over the last decade working with the Girl Scouts. Prior to that, she started her career at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation as a senior credit and collections representative.

Dr. Angela Trego, PMP, PE, FHEA
Director of Science & Engineering
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Ampleo
Accounting
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UAMMI Board Members
UAMMI Board Members
- Randy Philpot – Current Board Chair / President, Advanced Composites Inc.
- Matt Majewski – Current UAMMI Vice Chair / Vice President Aerospace Engineering, Kihomac
- Mike Rossberg – Current UAMMI Treasurer / AMPLEO Accounting
- Scott Lindsay – CEO, TCR Composites (Past UAMMI Chair)
- Scott Pettit – Boeing, Salt Lake
- Perry Oaks – Utah Sr. Manager of Government Affairs, Lockheed Martin (Past UAMMI Chair)
- Kori Ann Edwards – Chief Operating Officer, Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development
- Brent Strong – Chief Technology Officer, UAMMI & Global Executive Vice President, SAMPE
- Jerome Berg – Technology Manager, Northrup Grumman, Aeronautics Systems-Aerospace Structures
- George Hansen – Founder/CTO, Conductive Composites
- Lyndon Smith – Vice President, Hexcel
- Sarah Mees – Division Manager, Ogden City Business Development/CANU
- Ginger Chinn – Managing Director of Business Development, Utah Inland Port Authority
- Marshall Hagen – Business Development Manager, Janicki Industries Utah
- David Arnold, DPS Skis
- Bret Ashton, ACT Aerospace
- Craig Eatough, Combustion Resources
- Lyn Gee, L3/Harris
- TJ Marshall, OEM Operations Director or the Commercial Flight Controls Division, Parker Aerospace
UAMMI Advisory Board Members
- Sandra Hemmert – CTE Specialist, Granite School District
- Rick Bouillon – Salt Lake Community College
- Wes Hobbs, Davis Tech College
- Darin Brush – President, Davis Technical College
- David Ferro – Dean College of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology, Weber State University
- Robert Yancey, Hexcel
- Stephen Reed, USU
- Jason Carling, Conductive Composites
- Jim Trent, BYU
Ex-Officio UAMMI Board Members:
- David Hansen – Technical Director, OO-ALC/EN Ogden Air Logistics Complex
- Andy Buffmire – Technology Ambassador, University of Utah
UAMMI Institute Board Members
- Brent Strong – UAMMI InstituteChairman, CTO, UAMMI & Global Executive Vice President, SAMPE
- Guy Letrendre – UAMMI Institute Vice Chairman, Weber State University
- Mike Rossberg – UAMMI InstituteTreasurer
- Andy Buffmire – UAMMI Institute Director / Technology Ambassador, University of Utah