Dr. Neal E. Craft - President

Neal Craft grew up and developed his scientific interests on a small farm in Ohio. He received a B.S. in Human Nutrition from Ohio State University in 1978, an M.S. in Human Nutrition from Virginia Tech in 1981, and Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Maryland in 1991.

He began his career at the USDA, Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, MD doing research in the area of trace mineral metabolism and metabolic disease. At USDA, he began performing HPLC analysis of vitamins and carotenoids in studies funded by the National Cancer Institute. Neal moved to the Organic Analytical Research Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and served as Clinical Coordinator of the NCI/NIST Micronutrient Quality Assurance Program involving over 50 laboratories internationally. During his years at NIST, he taught several short courses on carotenoid and vitamin analysis, received six U.S. Department of Commerce Performance Awards, was involved in the production of four Standard Reference Materials, and contributed to two inventions submitted for patent review.

In 1994, Neal and his wife, Mannette, founded Craft Technologies, Inc. Dr. Craft serves as the president and visionary for CTI. He has been developing methods and measuring vitamins, carotenoids, and phytochemicals in biological materials since 1984. In addition, Neal is actively involved in developing methods of assessing nutritional deficiencies in developing countries. He is coauthor of over 40 peer-reviewed articles and has made presentations at over 35 international meetings. Neal is an adjunct faculty member at UNC-Greensboro and a member of several professional organizations including: AOAC, ACS, ASNS, CARIG, and IFT.

Neal and his lovely wife are the proud parents of four wonderful children. He enjoys sports, boating, classic cars, and riding motorcycles with his wife.

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Dr. Francisco X. Arredondo - Biomarkers Leaders

Francisco Arredondo, "Paco" a native of Baja California, Mexico, attended medical school at the University of Mexico (UNAM), graduating in 1979 with a residency training in medical genetics. He moved to New York City's Mount Sinai School of Medicine and did a post-doc (1979-1981) in gene mapping and immunogenetics, at Dr. Robert J. Desnick and Dr. Moyra Smith laboratories. He continued working in gene mapping and molecular biology at the University of California Irvine (1981-1982). By the end of 1982 he moved back to Mexico and started his own laboratory at the Baja California Biological Research Institute (CIB) at the City of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, there he worked in plant genetics and fish and marine mammals population genetics. In 1985 he attended University College London (London, UK) Galton Laboratory as a graduate student and worked towards his PhD under the direction of Dr. David Whitehouse and Professor David Hopkinson. In October 1988 he obtained his PhD in genetics. He accepted a position at Dr. Michael Hershfield laboratory at the Department of Medicine of Duke University Medical Center (Durham, NC) . During his 16 years at Duke he worked on inborn errors of metabolism, and molecular and cellular biology of purine and pyrimidine enzymes. He has published more than 35 research papers and contributed to various chapters in several books.

Paco is married to Ines Santisteban PhD, and they have two daughters: Laura and Gabriela. Hobbies include jogging and riding his bicycle.

He recently joined Craft Technologies in March 2005, as the Biomarkers Group Leader.

Angela Busam - Office Manager

Angela (Angie) Busam is a native of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She has been married for 22 years to her husband, Eric and is the proud mother of two children, Jennifer and Andrew. She is also the proud “mom” of two cats (BK & Isabel) and a dachshund (Hildie).

Angie began with Craft Technologies, Inc. part time in February 2002 in accounting. In May of 2002, she accepted a full time position as office manager. Many of her duties include accounting, requisitions, human resources, data reporting, and administrative support.

Angie’s educational and experiential background is founded in managerial and administrative field acquired over the last twenty years.

Since coming to Craft Technologies, Inc. an awareness of how nutrition, the function and benefits, has inspired a desire to continue to offer to our clients best services we can provide. Impacting our community and the world around us, are not just clichés to Angie, but a vision she has for the employees and clients of Craft Technologies, Inc.

When she is not working she enjoys many other activities such as, gardening, maintaining her fishpond, home decorating, amusement parks, traveling and spending time with her family and pets.

Donna Springs - Quality Assurance and Control

Donna Springs is a native of North Carolina and received her degree in Chemistry from North Carolina State University. Donna Springs joined the staff of Craft Technologies as a technician in 2001 and has since been moved into the role of Quality Assurance and Control.

Since coming to Craft Technologies, Inc. Donna has exceled and has become a key person within our company with her attention to detail and a commitment to provide the best possible data to our clients.

Donna has been married to Christopher for five years and is the proud “mom” of two dogs (Sniffles and Boo) and a cat (Kitty Kat).

When she is not working, she enjoys reading, boating and wakeboarding with her husband.