D. Thomas Marsh, president of Centrotrade Minerals and Metals Inc. in Chesapeake, Virginia, will serve as vice chairman of the ASTM International board of directors for a two-year term.

At Centrotrade, a distributor of and technical advisory company for rubber, latex and chemicals, Marsh directs day-to-day operations; provides technical, regulatory and standards organization oversight to sister groups in Europe and Asia; and administers material specifications and contracts.
 
Marsh began his career as a technician for General Latex and Chemical Corp. in Ashland, Ohio, and then worked as a latex chemist for Abbott Laboratories. He became laboratory and technical services manager for Ansell Inc. in Troy, Alabama, and then president of the Ore and Chemical Corp. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he managed daily operations and implemented ASTM testing for natural rubber and latex. He was vice president of Microflex Corp., Reno, Nevada, before joining Centrotrade. He assumed his current title in 1999.

An ASTM member since 1990, Marsh currently serves as chairman of Committee D11 on Rubber and is a member of Committee F23 on Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment. He also served a term on the ASTM Committee on Technical Committee Operations (COTCO) from 2007 to 2009. He received a Distinguished Service Award from Committee D11 in 2007 and a Service Award from COTCO in 2009.

In addition to ASTM, Marsh is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Management Association, the Ohio Rubber Group and the Rubber Trade Association of North America, where he is a member of the board of directors and a past president. He is also a U.S. voting delegate to Technical Committee 45 for Rubber and Rubber Products of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and served a term on the board of directors of Vystar Corp. from 2012 to 2013.

Marsh holds a general sciences degree from the Ohio State University and a bachelor’s degree in business management from Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia.

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