Management Team

BRIMMAN FRAZER

President and Founder

Brimman was the head of the Ohio based team when Sorbster Inc. was founded in 2019 and has been the driving force ever since. Having overseen all pillars of the business, his graduation to President in 2025 is a recognition of the role he has already been performing.

Brimman has passion for and experience in growing small manufacturing businesses. Aside from running Sorbster he sits on the board of two other companies and is a consultant for more. He has international corporate business experience having worked in Tokyo and Hong Kong for a combined 8 years.

CECILIA CRUICKSHANK

President Emeritus, Board Member

Cecilia founded Sorbster as a sole proprietorship in 2015. She brought the team together and incorporated Sorbster Inc in 2019. Her vision, determination, and business acumen have been crucial in moving this technology from a concept to a marketable product. In 2025 she moves from President to a less active role as a Board Member.

Cecilia Cruickshank is a private investor focusing on start-up, emergent technology companies. She retired from Cruickshank Capital Management, which she founded to serve high net worth investors and private foundations. She has a successful record of portfolio out-performance over more than four decades.

Ms. Cruickshank graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Political Science. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

NANCY SHERWOOD

Vice President of Technology

Nancy Sherwood is currently the Vice President of Technology for Sorbster. Cooling water treatment, scale and deposit control, oilfield chemicals and wastewater trace contaminant removal are her specialties. Following graduation from Case Western Reserve University with a degree in Geology, Sherwood worked for Calgon Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA in the Water Management Division for much of her career. She spent time researching polymeric and other organic chemical treatments and pilot systems development for water treatment applications.

She headed Calgon’s research and development activities as Director of Research and continued as a Research Director for six years at Nalco Chemical Company after the two companies merged. Mrs. Sherwood managed new product development, the water analytical lab, chemical procurement approvals and technical product support activities while at the Nalco Naperville, IL headquarters. Prior to joining Sorbster, Mrs. Sherwood was with Kemira Chemicals in Kennesaw, GA as Senior R&D Manager for Mining and Formation Technology and the Additives Business Unit.

Her combined water treatment and geology/mining expertise has led to product characterization, technical application guidelines, optimized pilot units, quality control of manufacturing and new product development for Sorbster.

RICH LALAMA

Consultant

Richard has more than 35 years of Sales Management and Business Development experience in a broad range of market segments and products. During those years, he guided his previous companies through both the strategic planning and commercialization process with unrivaled success.

Following his graduation from Penn State University (1981) with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering, Richard started his career as a process and technical engineer for Proctor & Gamble. After those early career stepping-stone years, Richard later became the Director of Technology and Marketing Services at the Calgon Corporation, where he served for eight years. He followed this with three years at Vulcan Performance Chemicals until he became the Vice President, Oil & Gas at Kemira Chemicals, Inc. Since he left Kemira three years ago, he has continued work in the chemicals industry with Synalloy Corp and Siemens Industry Inc.

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BRIMMAN FRAZER

President and Founder

Brimman was the head of the Ohio based team when Sorbster Inc. was founded in 2019 and has been the driving force ever since. Having overseen all pillars of the business, his graduation to President in 2025 is a recognition of the role he has already been performing.

Brimman has passion for and experience in growing small manufacturing businesses. Aside from running Sorbster he sits on the board of two other companies and is a consultant for more. He has international corporate business experience having worked in Tokyo and Hong Kong for a combined 8 years.

CECILIA CRUICKSHANK

President Emeritus, Board Member

Cecilia founded Sorbster as a sole proprietorship in 2015. She brought the team together and incorporated Sorbster Inc in 2019. Her vision, determination, and business acumen have been crucial in moving this technology from a concept to a marketable product. In 2025 she moves from President to a less active role as a Board Member.

Cecilia Cruickshank is a private investor focusing on start-up, emergent technology companies. She retired from Cruickshank Capital Management, which she founded to serve high net worth investors and private foundations. She has a successful record of portfolio out-performance over more than four decades.

Ms. Cruickshank graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Political Science. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

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