Entrotech Inc

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Jim McGuire is an entrepreneur who finds business opportunities in wildly diverse places. The companies McGuire has developed include ones that make polymers for hard disk drives, car paint protectants, a super-thin film that has replaced spray paint on racing cars, carbon fiber lacrosse sticks, and medical devices designed for use on the battlefield. “Materials science is in everything. It’s everywhere,” said McGuire, a chemist by training who has 12 patents issued and 28 pending. These days, McGuire is mostly in San Francisco running Entrotech Life Sciences, a startup in Mission Bay that has developed or helped a similarly broad array of products. There's a medical dressing McGuire says can reduce hospital-acquired infections, a bandage that compresses wounds, a chest dressing that prevents air from entering the thorax through injuries, a device that illuminates veins in the dark through night vision goggles and a clamp tourniquet for bleeding. McGuire is president and CEO of EntroGroup, a holding company with more than $50 million a year in revenue that he founded in 1999 with $1.5 million in outside capital.

As a vertically integrated provider of advanced material solutions, we see possibilities. Because we’ve seen what can be achieved when we push the envelope. We’ve seen remarkable advancements in life sciences like battlefield medical care. We’ve seen computer disc drives perform at levels never before imagined. We’ve seen the emergence of carbon fiber as the next advanced material. We’ve seen intelligent paint technology that meets rigorous aerospace requirements.

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