John Gormley is the Director of Regulatory Affairs for Grant Industries, Inc. Gormley is the webmaster for Grant’s web site (www.grantinc.com) and enjoys developing new products and software solutions for Grant’s cosmetics business unit. His main scientific interests are polymer chemistry and vitamin biochemistry. John is a prolific technical writer and contributes to the company’s patent writing, marketing and advertising projects. As part of his company’s outreach program, John teaches the silicone chemistry module at Fairleigh Dickenson University.

John’s broad corporate background includes new technology positions at Uniqema, Mona Industries, National Starch, Unilever, and Abex Corp. He has contributed to seven issued US patents and six pending patents and has presented at the Edinbrough IFSCC and New York HBA symposium on scientific and regulatory subjects. He has contributed to a number of successful commercial projects, some replacing older materials with safer and greener options, as well as being a proponent of businesses working closely with regulatory agencies to develop realistic solutions to on-going environmental issues.


At HBA 2011, he spoke in the session T-06: High Speed Personal Care Formulating: Part 2.