Dr. Mark Sivik is a Research Fellow at Procter & Gamble (P&G) working in the Strategic Innovation and Technology Division for Fabric and Home Care. Since joining P&G in 1992, Mark has worked on new technologies such as softener actives, bleach activators, metal catalysts, pro-perfumes, surfactants, polymers, hueing dyes, and deposition actives. His experience spans molecular design, synthesis, models and mechanisms of functional actives, biodegradable actives, functional fibers and films, program strategies, intellectual property, and the commercialization of technologies.
He has been awarded more than 210 patents and 28 technical publications. He was awarded the P&G John G. Smale Innovation Award in 2002 and the American Chemical Society Central Region Industrial Innovation Award in 2007. He was awarded the P&G Eugene Gosselink Polymer Award in 2019 in Polymer Science. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, AOCS, AATCC, Sigma Xi, and several internal P&G organizations. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Surfactants and Detergents.
Mark earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cleveland State University in 1987. While earning this degree, he had co-op assignments at Gould Electronics (electrochemical plating), NASA (thin film protective coatings), General Electric (halogen/oxygen lamp modeling chemistry), and Cleveland State University (synthesis of air-sensitive early transition metal coordination complexes). Mark graduated from The Ohio State University in 1992 with a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. His work focused on synthesizing and studying optically active transition metal complexes and their application to asymmetric induction chemistry. Outside of work, Mark enjoys time with family, cooking, exercise, sports, and photography.
