Dr. John L. Burba serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Simbol Materials LLC. Dr. Burba served as the Chief Technology Officer of MolyCorp Minerals, LLC and has been its Executive Vice President since December 8, 2009. Mr. Burba served as the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Molycorp, Inc. from September 2009 to March 22, 2013. From August 2005 to October 2008, he served as Vice President of Technology at Chevron Mining Inc. He served numerous technology related positions with Dow Chemical Co., FMC, and MolyCorp where he managed development teams.
During his career, he was directly involved in all phases of development and scale-up, from invention, laboratory development, product design, process design, scale up, and commercialization. He has been a Director of Neo Material Technologies Inc. since May 2012. Dr. Burba received his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1974, M.S. in Physical Chemistry in 1976 and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1979 from Baylor University.