SAMPE appoints new CTO

About Raj Manchanda

Raj Manchanda most recently served as a training/brand management and alliances executive at HYTORC (Mahwah, N.J., U.S.) an industrial bolting manufacturer and serves operators in refineries, power plants, wind turbines, steel mills, mining, transportation and construction in more than 140 countries around the world.

Previously Raj served on the staff of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME, New York, N.Y., U.S.) for 20+ years. At ASME he held positions in the engineering, training, conformity assessment, emerging technologies and industry events business units and supported volunteers from the heat transfer, bioengineering, applied mechanics, fluids engineering and materials divisions.

Raj was also instrumental in launching the Nanotechnology Institute in 2001 with Dr. Arun Majumdar of UC Berkeley — a recognized materials scientist and engineer. Raj collaborated with Dr. Majumdar and the members of the Nanotechnology Institute Advisory Board to expand the scope of the Institute to include fuel cells, microchannels and biomedical device content and programming. Raj's most recent role as director, Business Development - Manufacturing and Robotics at ASME included responsibility for the development of new content, in-person and digital conferences, expos, publications, training and standards in advanced manufacturing and robotics. He holds a mechanical engineering degree from Boston University and an MBA in finance and investments from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business of The City University of New York.