{"id":2166,"date":"2013-12-19T17:35:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2013-12-19T17:35:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:35:04","slug":"susan-mackay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/susan-mackay\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 91: CEO of Cerahelix Susan MacKay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a091
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0December 14
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Susan MacKay
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

CEO of Cerahelix<\/a>, Susan MacKay grew up in Tampa, Florida.\u00a0 She attended The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and graduated with her Bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry.\u00a0 MacKay went on to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned her Ph.D. in chemistry.\u00a0 MacKay described for Stevoe what it was like studying chemistry and biotech and materials\u00a0research\u00a0in the “Research Triangle”.<\/p>\n

\"Susan<\/a>

Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe, Steve Woods (left) recently met with CEO of Cerahelix Susan MacKay (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

MacKay has over 20 years of experience in product development and surface and materials characterization.\u00a0\u00a0 MacKay has been honored with a \u201cWoman in Technological Entrepreneurship Award\u201d in 2010, the MaineBiz \u201cWomen to Watch\u201d award in 2010, and a Mass High Tech \u201cWoman to Watch\u201d award in 2011.\u00a0 In November 2012, MacKay gave a TEDxDirigo talk on her energy-saving ceramic filtration system.\u00a0 MacKay told Stevoe how training for her TED talk stretched her storytelling ability and what\u00a0an amazing experience it was.<\/p>\n

In 2002, MacKay moved to Orono from Boston, in search of a different lifesytlye.\u00a0 MacKay co-founded Zeomatrix in 2006, along with her husband, Don MacKay, and fellow scientist Karl Bishop. \u00a0Zeopmatrix developed a patented odor control paper product, which is currently being marketed as a pet litter disposal bag.<\/p>\n

MacKay founded Cerahelix in 2011 to commercialize a patented breakthrough in ceramic filtration.\u00a0 She has created the first ceramic filter that filters at high purity and low pressure. This creates the ability to significantly reduce the energy needed to produce high purity water and other fluids under challenging conditions.<\/p>\n

Currently, Cerahelix employs 6 technical people and leases a laboratory and offices at the Target Technology incubator in Orono, Maine. \u00a0Cerahelix a research and development company, that has created a membrane filtration system that combines zeolite (are microporous, aluminosilicate minerals commonly used as commercial adsorbents) with DNA for applications such as purifying water in a biorefinery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Susan MacKay, CEO of Cerahelix, stopped by the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studios for an interview with host Steve Woods. MacKay described for Stevoe the work Cerahelix does, and biotech and materials research in Maine. The two also discussed the challenges and benefits of start-up companies in Maine. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}