Andrew Patton is Founder/CEO at NextBeam. Patton is an executive and entrepreneur who has held engineering and business leadership roles in tech companies and high finance. After extensively researching the US contract irradiation and sterilization industries, Patton co-founded NextBeam in 2020 with the vision of creating a new irradiator that would closely collaborate with customers to help solve their most challenging irradiation and sterilization problems. He believes that we are in the process of a long-term industry shift towards clean forms of irradiation, like electron-beam, and that there is a tremendous opportunity to help companies optimize their radiation processing activities.