Jacob (Jake) Hilldrup is a Technical Director of Enthalpy’s chemistry department for nicotine products located in Richmond, VA. Jake has been at Enthalpy for over 7 years and has helped the company expand its capabilities into numerous new product categories including cigars, e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products, and oral pouches. He has extensive experience in project design, new method implementation, adherence to ISO 17025 compliance, and data review of finished results. Jake is also a member of the ISO US (ANSI) Technical Advisory Group as well as CORESTA. He actively contributes to collaborative and proficiency studies while helping form and continuously improve international standards used to test cigarettes, cigars, ENDS, and tobacco products. He has submitted several topics for discussion including cigar analysis and alternative collections for in vitro toxicology testing. Jake has a strong analytical and regulatory background with a bachelor of science in chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
