Executive Team

Nanci Hardwick

Chief Executive Officer

Nanci Hardwick is CEO of Schultz-Creehan Holdings, Inc.. Nanci is responsible for the strategic direction and growth of the divisions of Schultz-Creehan and shares oversight of daily operations with Kevin and Jeff. Well-known in the technology community, she is credited with the rapid growth of aerospace start up AVID LLC. During her management there, Nanci was nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year and accepted the award for NCTC Technology Company of the Year. Nanci has been named one of the “Top 20 under 40” business leaders in the region by the Blue Ridge Business Journal. Nanci is a member of LeadVirginia, the Navy League, and the National Defense Industrial Association.

Supporting regional technology and business development, Nanci currently sits on the executive committee and board of NewVa Corridor Technology Council and the board of the New River Valley Economic Development Alliance. She is a board member of the New River Community College Foundation and the Lyric Theater and is a special advisor to the Literacy Volunteers. Previous leadership positions in local non-profits include eleven years on the board and executive committee of the United Way of Montgomery, Radford and Floyd, United in Caring Fund for the Virginia Tech Tragedy, and founding member of the Community Impact Program in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center. Nanci is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Business.

Jeff Schultz, Ph.D.

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Jeff is CTO of Schultz-Creehan Holdings, Inc. Jeff is responsible for the innovative quality of solutions and products, and shares oversight of daily operations with Nanci and Kevin. His primary research and development interests are additive manufacturing techniques for metallic and composite components and the process/structure/property relationships that result from these manufacturing techniques. Jeff is a member of TMS: the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society and the Navy League.

Jeff is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he earned his BS, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering. His dissertation research focused on the consolidation of polymer powders during laser sintering. Jeff’s tenure as a Research Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech has included fabrication and characterization of multifunctional metal matrix composites and hybrid composites, development of design software for metal matrix composite components, and process development for fabrication of nanocrystalline metals. His expertise in materials science has been rewarded with multiple opportunities to participate in exciting and revolutionary collaborative research efforts at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. See Jeff's publications here.

Kevin Creehan, Ph.D.

President & Co-Founder

Kevin was the founding CEO of Schultz-Creehan Holdings, Inc and established the company’s reputation for quality, innovation and value before becoming President. As President, Kevin provides strategic insight into customer needs and develops technologies in industrial engineering. In addition, Kevin oversees daily operations with Jeff and Nanci.

Kevin most recently served as Director of the Center for High Performance Manufacturing (CHPM) at Virginia Tech. Directing the research group, he was responsible for obtaining research funding, recruiting and retaining member companies, and managing research projects focusing on manufacturing logistics, supply chain design, production systems, information systems, lean manufacturing, six-sigma quality, and rapid manufacturing. Kevin sits on the Virginia Manufacturing Advisory Council, and headed the Planning Committee for the 2008 Governor's Manufacturing Summit. He has also served on a National Science Foundation panel addressing issues related to Manufacturing Machines and Equipment .

Kevin is a graduate of Allegheny College, where he majored in Mathematics, and earned his master’s and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. In his dissertation research, Kevin investigated the use of reverse engineering technology to enhance biomedical research capabilities, and developed an algorithm that allows imperfect data from reverse engineering equipment to be repaired probabilistically. See Kevin's publications here.