Leadership Team.
MTI is led by industry experts who guide our company’s strategic priorities, ensuring that our processes and operations reflect our values and support our growth and success.
Robert L. Clark
Dr. Robert Clark has served as the Lead Independent Director of Minerals Technologies Inc. since March 2021. He was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Research at the University of Rochester from 2016 to 2021.
Dr. Clark earned his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and joined Duke University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science in 1992. He founded Duke’s Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems, creating a multimillion dollar program involving more than two dozen faculty members. He also held the Thomas Lord Professorship of Engineering and served as Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering before going to Rochester to serve as Dean of the Hajim School in 2008. Dr. Clark was named Senior Vice President for Research in March 2013 following a national search and was appointed Provost and Senior Vice President for Research in 2016.
Dr. Clark is an expert in the science of acoustics, dynamic systems, applied control, and bio-nanomanufacturing. His work in these areas has led to more than 140 journal publications and earned him numerous awards. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
He served as Chair of the Strategic Research Advisory Board of the Austrian Institute of Technology from 2013 to 2017 and has served as Director of Minerals Technologies Inc. since 2010.