Biography

John A. MacKay earned a B.A. in Chemistry from St. Lawrence University (SLU) and a Ph.D. from the University of Vermont (UVM), focusing on Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry. After positions teaching at Davidson College, Lyndon State College, and the University of Vermont (UVM), John joined Waters Corporation in 1983. After retiring in 2017 from Waters, Dr. MacKay founded Synergistic Technologies Associates, LLC, which has helped many major brands optimize their extrication processes operations based on Six Sigma principles. With the expertise and desire to spread science throughout the industry, John has taken on roles as a contributing journalist and science editor for Terpenes and Testing Magazine and Extraction Magazine. He has also been appointed the Educator Assistant Professor on the Volunteer Pathway, Department of Pharmacology at the Robert Larner, MD College of Medicines. More recently has taught chemistry at CSU Bakersfield and Bakersfield College.