Sue Mecham

CEO of NALA Systems

Sue Mecham holds a Ph.D. in polymer chemistry from Virginia Tech and is the CEO and co-founder of the women led company, NALA Systems. Sue brings over twenty years of experience building and leading teams in both industry and academia and has a broad background in materials and product development in automotive sealing products, membranes for gas and liquid separations, medical devices, and additive manufacturing. NALA Systems is developing unique chemically-resistant reverse osmosis membranes to reduce the cost and complexity of water purification. NALA was founded in 2018 and was awarded an NSF SBIR Phase 1 award in 2019 to establish the proof of concept for their patent pending polymers as reverse osmosis membranes. NALA was recently awarded a follow-on Phase II grant from NSF to move their membrane products toward commercialization.