Hicham Ghossein, earned his Ph.D. in 2018 from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Today he serves as the president of Endeavor Composites, and an entrepreneurial fellow at the Department of Energy-Advanced Manufacturing Office-Innovation Crossroads Program at Oak Ridge National Lab. During this program, Ghossein worked on scaling up and commercializing the carbon fiber nonwoven technology. During his graduate studies, Ghossein conducted the NSF- I-Corps program and received several graduate fellowships from IACMI and DOE.