Leslie Cohen, PhD

Senior Vice President
HITCO Carbon Composites (retired)

Dr. Cohen joined HITCO in 2001. He served for 31 years at McDonnell Douglas where he held positions of increasing responsibility in Technology Operations and Business Development. As a Senior Director, he directed all Business Development for MDAC in the Russian Federation.

He has published over 50 papers on Advanced Composite design and development, is a lecturer in Advanced Composites and has been awarded the USSR Gold Medal for Science and Technology, and a Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Judd Hall Award for Manufacturing of Composites and SAMPE Fellow. He is a recipient of the prestigious George Lubin Award for excellence in composities from SAMPE.

He holds B.S, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Fulbright Post Doctoral at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology specializing in Structures and Materials.