DuPont Co. legacy Expert-Nation.com Pioneered
Pioneering the Subject Matter Expert Niche in HealthCare and Packaging

Some 250 “for-hire” Subject Matter Experts of Wilmington, DE-HQd Expert-Nation.com, have expertise in science, engineering, and business problem-solving consulting services in health care, packaging, and related areas like regulatory affairs, GLP, and GMP.

Expert-Nation.com is the DBA (doing business as) blend of CECON.com Science, Engineering, and Technical Experts, founded in 1985 by a half dozen DuPont Co scientists and engineers who were among the first to accept its “early-out” downsizing offer(s), and SamWaltz.com Strategic Capital & Business Counsel, founded in 1993 by a senior-level DuPonter who is a global and national leader in strategic business advisory and capital services.

Now in its 3rd generation ownership and management, as a Vietnam-era U.S. Military Veteranowned firm, the firm’s Managing Director Sam Waltz headed Public Affairs and Corporate Affairs for DuPont’s Medical Products Department in the early 1990s. Earlier in his career, he’d served as a marketing leader for its packaging materials products, resins, and films.

“A 1st Quarter 2022 quick search of the proprietary database of Experts at Expert-Nation.com discovers 116 when the search term ‘health care’ is entered, 53 for a search of ‘packaging,’ and 157 for a search of ‘medical’,” Waltz says. Expert-Nation.com reports some 1,500 thought-leadership quality experts in all 50 USA states and some 20 countries, many or most of them in the senior-level strategic post-corporate phases of their careers.

“Interestingly, CECON.com—now Expert-Nation. com—was among the first-in-the-world companies to establish and pioneer the out-sourced Expert niche,” says Waltz. “DuPont had more than 160,000 employees worldwide 40 years ago, early in the 1980s. TodayDuPont has fewer than 25,000 employees worldwide. It’s not unique. Many big companies took that trip, spinning off huge chunks of their talent-rich human capital into postcorporate consulting.”

“The Expert Industry niche remains a robust and growing niche,” Waltz adds, with some major players on Wall Street, a handful focused on Washington, DC-centric markets, and with the globally-known Expert-Nation. com evolution from CECON.com still a much sought-after problem-solving resource.

“The smart company today staffs for the valley, not for the peak, leading it regularly to encounter strategic and tactical problem-solving situations that bring them to us for Expert human capital solutions.”

His wife’s late uncle was a DuPont engineer who was among the founders of CECON, Waltz states, although independent of that, he had joined the Company’s Board of Directors more than a decade ago as its founding generation “aged out,” and leadership sought strategic business leadership competence alongside its science, engineering, and technical competence.

The company’s business model is a straightforward Arbitrage Business Model. Waltz mentions that it effectively “buys time at ‘wholesale’ under contract with its proprietary Expert data base, with a discount for the branding, marketing, contracting and business management value it adds to their work, and sells that time at ‘retail,’ normalizing the process and reducing the risk on both sides for Clients matching with Experts.”



“Expert-Nation.com is agnostic about which Expert it contracts and assigns to its Clients, so our objective always is to provide the Expert who is ‘the best fit’ to the Client’s needs within the Client’s budget!” Waltz says.

By year-end, the company’s switch to the Expert-Nation. com Global Expert Network brand will be complete, but for the balance of 2022, visitors can access it via either site, including CECON.com.

Waltz himself is a Vietnam-era Veteran, U.S. Army Counter Intelligence. He holds BS and MS degrees from the University of Illinois, with Ph.D. coursework (no degree) from the University of Delaware. He is a former elected global–national president of the professional society for the External Affairs / Corporate Affairs / Strategy industry, akin to an MD who might head the AMA or an Attorney who might head the ABA.