Forcucci, Jay (USA)

Mr. Forcucci is recently retired from his role as Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Cerex Advanced Fabrics since 2016.  He has over 35 years of business experience with multiple filtration media and filter manufacturing companies in various management and executive roles with Commercial, Operations and R&D responsibilities.  Jay received his BS in Chemical Engineering and MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1980 and 1983 respectively.  He started his filtration career with Pall Corp marketing disposable process filters and Metal Backwash filter systems. He was Product and Market Manager at Lydall (now Alkegen) for air and liquid filtration glass media.  He was an executive manager for AQF Technologies (molecular contamination media), Filtration Group ( high loft PET/meltblown media as well as bio safety cabinet filters), Nanostatics (nanofiber media technology) and PGI (now Berry Global).  He has presented numerous papers at Clean Rooms Conferences, DOE Nuclear Conferences,  INDA Filtration Exhibitions and AFS Conferences.  Jay was co-chair of the INDA Filtration Committee from 2009-2012, Co-chair of the 2015 Fall AFS Conference and is currently co-chair for the media track for WFC 13.  Jay was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by INDA in 2010.