Advisory Board
Our leadership has carefully sought out science experts whose work is in alignment with our product development efforts and claims. These industry leaders will help decide which potential products should be brought to market to further the goals of Purebase. The Advisory Board has fortified Purebase’s scientific posture by helping validate the foundation on which the company is built. Our highly focused advisor will ensure that the science will withstand the highest level of scrutiny by the regulators, consumers, and scientific community.
Board of Advisors
Joseph Thomas
Advisory Board Chairman
Mr. Thomas has over 30 years of experience with cementitious materials, focusing on SCMs, natural pozzolans, blended cements, lightweight cements, ultrafine cementitious grouts, lightweight aggregates, and the remediation of non-spec waste products, which have cementitious value.
Since 2013, Mr. Thomas has been the owner of Magmatics, Inc., a consulting firm focused on pozzolanic and cementitious materials product development, oil field cementing, concrete mix design, and concrete admixtures. Prior to this, he served as Vice President of Research & Development at Hess Pumice Products, a pumice mining and processing company where he helped develop their various natural pozzolan products and helped to establish their marketing/sales footprint in Asia and Europe, as well as across North America. Mr. Thomas graduated from the University of Idaho (Moscow) with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1982. He is currently the Executive Director of the Natural Pozzolan Association (NPA), the Chair of the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) 240 Pozzolan Committee and serves as the Natural Pozzolan Task Group Chair at the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). He is responsible for 9 patents related to pozzolans and remediated SCMs in the cementitious materials industry.
Dr. Karen Scrivener
Founder Of The Nanocem Consortium.
Dr. Scrivener graduated from Cambridge University in Materials Science in 1980 and went on to earn her PhD in Materials Science from Imperial College London. She was a Senior Scientist and Head of Calcium Aluminates Department for the Central Research Laboratory of Lafarge in France, and head of the Laboratory of Construction Materials in the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. She has spent the majority of her life researching, speaking, and authoring reports on the most viable low-emission, sustainable cements for future construction throughout the world.