{"id":2832,"date":"2025-11-25T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2832"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:03:49","slug":"junus-khan","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/profile\/junus-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Junus Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbitex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/nrl\/files\/2025\/11\/Junus-Kahn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2837 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/files\/2025\/11\/Junus-Kahn-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/files\/2025\/11\/Junus-Kahn-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/files\/2025\/11\/Junus-Kahn.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Junus Khan is the Founder &amp; President of Carbitex, where he pioneered flexible carbon fiber composites, securing three patented technologies: OmniFlex, MonoFlex, and GearFlex. Under his leadership, Carbitex has established a U.S. manufacturing base and successfully commercialized its innovations with leading global brands, including adidas, The North Face, Saucony, and Altra. Junus is recognized as an industry expert in applied footwear technology and has been an invited and featured speaker and panelist at major innovation and materials conferences, including: <em>Future of Innovation<\/em> \u2013 WA Federal Affairs Summit, <em>Self-Assembly Summit<\/em> \u2013 MIT, <em>NW Materials Show<\/em> \u2013 The Future of Carbon Fiber in Footwear.\u00a0Beyond Carbitex, Junus is actively engaged in business and economic development. He serves as a Board Member for the Association of Washington Business, is a mentor at Fuse Fund, and has advised Governor Inslee\u2019s Washington State Economic Recovery Task Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12262,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2832\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}