About us

We are
1st Graphene

making everything better

Our mission is to provide the answers to help manufacturers accomplish their objectives by providing the right graphene for the application.

We want to make a positive impact on the world

We believe graphene is going to make a huge impact on the world in water purification and power generation.

Graphene allows us to be very inventive and very innovative in not just fixing existing products or enhancing existing products but creating completely new technologies. It’s just the most amazing material.

We believe it will literally take us into a whole new world because of the things it will allow us to do – and it’s not just enhancement of existing products or making things better its going to be creating completely new technologies.

Meet the 1st Graphene Team

Michael Rogers

Director of Business Development

Email: mike@1stgraphene.com

Currently providing high quality monolayer graphene in quantities of kilotons per month for high volume applications.

Brian Wyss

CFO - Founding Partner

Email: brian@1stGraphene.com

30 years of Management Experience – Manufacturing – Electronics Sensors and Sensing Technologies

Strong, multi-disciplined background. Effective with supply chain management, partnership development to enhance product offering, P&L management, Budgeting, Strategic planning, Channel management, Sales funnel development, Team building, Process mapping to increase efficiency and operations management.

My career has been centered around manufacturing in a sensor, electronics environment which has developed my skills to identify best practice in any process and in developing and installing manufacturing offshore.

Experience in International Business with associates in Taiwan, China, Korea, Japan, Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, Mexico and Canada.

I have researched, identified, and executed partnerships to enhance product offering with minimal capital investment to explode growth with the organizations I worked for. Built sales channels thru distributors and sales representatives to cover global distribution of products. Assisted companies in developing One Page sheets and Business plans for presentation to VC’s and Private Equity solicitation.

Small business development
Leadership/communication skills
Product line expansion
Project management
Program management
New product delivery
Client account management
Budgeting expertise
Market research and analysis
Customer-oriented
Sales Funnel Development
Global Supplier Development

James Gross

V.P. Brand Marketing

Email: jim@1stgraphene.com

An accomplished developer of web, technology and marketing resources to further brand, sales and lead generation in highly-competitive as well as emerging markets. Record of achievement in conceptualizing ideas and managing through designing and executing award-winning strategies that contributed to bottom-line results.

Responsible for creating strategies to deliver 1st Graphene’s messages to broad and niche markets.

Capabilities include creative design, website design and development, corporate identity, branding, content development, digital photography and video production.