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Speakers
Mostafa Analoui, Ph.D.
Senior Director and Site Head for Groton/New London, Global Clinical Technology, Pfizer Global Research and Development
Mostafa Analoui, Ph.D., is the Senior Director and Site Head for Groton/New London, Global Clinical Technology at Pfizer Global Research and Development in Connecticut. He is also adjunct Professor of Radiology and Oral Pathology, Medicine at Indiana University Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Analoui is actively involved in management and development of novel technologies and methodologies to support drug development. Dr. Analoui was previously the Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Imaging Research at Indiana University, and Associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Comp Engineering at Purdue University. In addition to industry leadership in biomedical filed, he lectures nationally and internationally. He also has served on variou s scientific and business advisory committees. Dr. Analoui has authored over 120 publications, including journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports.
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Paul Ashton, Ph.D
CEO, pSivida Inc.
Paul Ashton, Ph.D. was the President, CEO, and a director of Control Delivery Systems (CDS). Dr. Ashton is a cofounder of CDS, which was launched in 1991, and has served as a member of the board of directors since that time. Dr. Ashton became CEO in 1996. Before cofounding CDS, Dr. Ashton was a visiting professor of ophthalmology at the University of Kentucky. Prior to this, he worked at Hoffman-LaRoche, and also served on the faculty of Tufts University for four years. Dr. Ashton received a B.Sc in chemistry from Durham University, England, and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical science from the University of Wales.
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John H. Belk
Boeing Technical Fellow, Phantom Works
John Belk is responsible for initiating and guiding much of the nanotechnology research in Boeing’s Phantom Works advanced R&D unit. He is a Boeing Technical Fellow as well as a member of the Technical Advisory Group for the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is an author in the American Society of Materials’ Engineered Materials Handbook, served on the National Research Council committee on Implications of Emerging Micro and Nanotechnologies, was a member of the ANSI Nanotechnology Standards Panel, served as a reviewer for NASA’s nanotechnology roadmap, won a DoD Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award, and has been awarded eight U.S. patents. He is also on the advisory board of Differential Solutions, Inc.
Mr. Belk earned a B.S. in Physics from Clemson University, Masters degrees in Mechanical and Aeros pace Sciences from the University of Rochester and Engineering Management from Washington University, and studied Physiological Optics at the University of Missouri.
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Keith Blakely
CEO, NanoDynamics, Inc.
Keith Blakely is the CEO of NanoDynamics, Inc., a leader in the commercialization of nanomaterials and nanotechnology-enabled components and systems. The company was formed in 2002 and has already introduced commercial products for the microelectronics, biomedical, chemical, semiconductor, defense, and alternative energy (fuel cell) markets. NanoDynamics has been featured in the USA Today, Business Week, and on CNBC’s Squawk Box and the CBS Evening News.
Blakely is a serial entrepreneur, having started his first company, Advanced Refractory Technologies, Inc. (ART), in Buffalo, NY in 1981 at the age of 24. For the next twenty years, he served as ART’s President & CEO, overseeing its growth from a 2 person operation to over 300 people with two international joint ventures and three domestic facilities. During his tenure, he established relationships w ith General Motors, Bekaert, Mitsubishi, Westinghouse, McDermott International, United Defense, and many others. The company was recognized as a worldwide leader in advanced materials when it was acquired by a subsidiary of Tyco International in June, 2001.
Following the sale of ART, Mr. Blakely established a technology management consulting organization – The InVentures Group – which has provided technology assessments, business planning, and technology commercialization to several organizations, from start-ups to multi-billion dollar firms. The InVentures Group was instrumental in helping the University of Buffalo establish STOR (the Office of Science, Technology, and Economic Outreach) in 2001 and served as the interim Director of Commercialization. More recently, he founded First Wave Technologies; one of the first private-sector companies in WNY focused on the development and commercialization of pre-incubator technology projects.
Blakely served as the President and COO of TechSys, Inc. , a NASDAQ listed company which developed new technologies for portable electric power generation, including solid oxide fuel cells, in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Adelan Ltd., in Birmingham, England. Blakely also assisted, as the President and CEO in the commercial transition of another development stage nanomaterials company, AP Materials, Inc.
Mr. Blakely, who was elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2001, received the R&D 100 Award in 1979 and 1985, was NYS Entrepreneur of the Year in 1995, has served on the boards of several public and private organizations, including the Buffalo-Niagara International Trade Council, the Western New York Technology Development Corporation, and the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation.
Keith is a native of Western New York and a graduate of SUNY Buffalo.
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Michael J. Bowman
Chairman of the Board and President, Delaware Technology Park
Chairman of the Board and President of the Delaware Technology Park, a collaboration of State, University of Delaware and high technology industries such as advanced materials, life sciences and information technology.
Managing Partner and Board member of several high growth technology based companies and Chairman of Engineering Advisory Council at University of Delaware and Chairman of Digital Delaware.
From 1987-1997 served as Vice President & General Manager in DuPont for Advanced Materials and Systems, a one billion-dollar global business unit with 2500 employees. Prior to that held various professional and managerial roles in technical, marketing and manufacturing at E.I. DuPont. Managed global product lines in polymers and fibers including TEFLON, KEVLAR, NOMEX and all of DuPont’s composite products and joint ventures.
Chemical Engineer from University of Cincinnati with MBA business/financial courses at Wharton and Columbia.
Residence in Wilmington, Delaware. Wife is Sandie and grown children are Jennifer and Christopher.
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Vincent Caprio
Founder and Executive Director, New York NanoBusiness Alliance
Mr. Caprio is the founder and Executive Director New York NanoBusiness Alliance. Mr. Caprio is also Vice President of the national NanoBusiness Alliance and sits on the Alliance’s Board of Directors, as well as the Board of Directors of the Emerging Industries Alliance of New York State. Mr. Caprio is one of the foremost advocates for government funding of nanotechnology at both the state and Federal levels. Mr. Caprio has testified before the state legislatures of New York and Connecticut, and has organized the NanoBusiness Alliance’s public policy tour of Washington, D.C. for the past three years. Mr. Caprio is also a frequent speaker at domestic and international nanotechnology conferences, most recently addressing the Minatec Crossroads Conference in Grenoble, France and Quantum Dots 2006 in San Francisco, CA. Mr. Caprio has served as a consultant to leading nanotechnology research and advisory firm Lux Research, for its Lux Executive Summit in 2005 & 2006.
Mr. Caprio is a 20-year tradeshow and conference industry veteran with an impressive track record of launching events foc using on emerging technology markets. Mr. Caprio joined the NanoBusiness Alliance as event director in 2002, to steer the launch of the highly successful NanoBusiness event series as well as The Emerging Technologies Conference in association with MIT’s Technology Review Magazine. Prior to joining the NanoBusiness Alliance, Mr. Caprio was Event Director for Red Herring Conferences, producing the company’s Venture Market conferences and Annual Summit. His industry peers have formally recognized Mr. Caprio on several occasions for his talents in both tradeshow management and sales. Mr. Caprio was honored with two Pathfinder Awards for launching the New York Restaurant Show. In 2005, Mr. Caprio was nominated for the third year straight year for the prestigious Show Manager of the Year award. Mr. Caprio was named Sales Executive of the Year in 1994, while with Reed Exhibitions.
Mr. Caprio graduated from Villanova University in 1979 with a B.S in Accounting and completed a MBA from Northeastern in 1987. Mr . Caprio is a member of Villanova University’s Financial Club and serves as an active member of Villanova’s President Club and Leadership Council.
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Dr. John Collins
President and CEO, VeruTEK Technologies
Dr. John Collins is President and CEO of VeruTEK Technologies. VeruTEK is a nanotechnology company that develops green solutions for current environmental problems such as soil and groundwater contamination, legacy herbicide and pesticide contamination, oil spill contamination, and water treatment. Before cofounding VeruTEK, Dr. Collins spent 15 years consulting to Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies such as the EPA, Department of Defense and Department of Energy concerning environmental remediation of toxic contamination. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Riverside after conducting his doctoral research at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. He obtained his M.S. at the University of Connecticut and his B.S. at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Collins is a well-known proponent of green technolo gies in solving the worldwide legacy of industrial contamination.
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James C. Czirr
President & CEO, Minerva Biotechnologies Corp.
Jim Czirr, President and C.E.O. of Minerva Biotechnologies, has a proven track record of success in the startup and early stage development of biotech companies. Mr. Czirr worked with Safe Sciences, symbol SAFS (aka GLGS), and was instrumental in bringing the company from a market cap of $5 million to $450 million, reflected in a share price that grew from 62 cents per share to $29 per share during his tenure (1994 – 1999). In 2000, Mr. Czirr and three Ph.D.s founded Pro-Pharmaceuticals Corp. (PRW on the AMEX), a Massachusetts based company that pioneered the use of certain carbohydrates to reduce the toxicity and improve the effectiveness of standard chemotherapy drugs. While at Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Czirr was in charge of Business Development and Investor Relations. In this capacity, Jim Czirr raised operating capital and was instrumen tal in listing the company on the American Stock Exchange, where shares traded as high as $6 per share under his leadership. Mr. Czirr additionally orchestrated a structure for an investment by Elan Corporation (ELN on the NYSE) in PRW shares at prices higher than any equity sales PRW has had in its history. The investment, which was recommended by Elan business development people to Elan’s board, was cancelled when Elan’s share price fell from the $60’s to $1.60 per share following the disclosure of irregular accounting practices for several joint ventures. Mr. Czirr, as president of Extol International, Inc., successfully negotiated a joint venture for Metalline Mining Corporation with Penoles Mining Company, the world’s largest producer of silver, for the joint development of Metalline’s mining concessions in Sierra Mojada, Mexico. Metalline (symbol MMGG) is completing development of an oxide zinc deposit, which due to the unique chemical properties of their mineral system is projected by management to become one of the lowest cost producers of zinc in the world.
Prior to his employment at Extol International, Corp., Mr. Czirr worked both in the brokerage business, participating in the IPO syndicates of small cap companies while syndicating a variety of Limited Partnerships.
Mr. Czirr earned a B.B.A. in Business at the University of Michigan. Equally important, Jim distinguished himself on the football field where he was the 1975 Big Ten Conference Coaches’ unanimous choice for All Conference Center and draft choice of the Denver Broncos. All four of Jim’s years on Michigan’s football team were during the decade of the 70’s when the Wolverines established their place in history as the winningest football team during any decade of college football. As on the football field, Jim cultivates integrity, commitment and excellence to build winning teams in the biotech arena. Jim has the innate ability to recognize big plays and the grit to play big.
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Dr. Jeffrey T. DePinto
Business Development Manager for Nanotechnology, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Jeff DePinto is Business Development Manager for nanotechnology at Air Products and Chemicals. Jeff began his career with Air Products in 1995, and has worked in a variety of cross-functional positions including R&D, Sales, and Business Development.
Jeff's current responsibilities include new business development efforts for Air Products in the area of nanotechnology and development and execution of Air Products' strategy for nanotechnology. This includes the development of strategic alliances, as well as coordination of commercial development activities for Air Products' internal development efforts in nanotechnology.
Prior to Air Products, Jeff received his Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison followed by post-doctoral work at MIT in Synthe tic Organic Chemistry.
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Gary Dyal
Director, Marketing/Sales, CVD Equipment Corporation
Mr. Dyal has 30 years of international experience in Business Management, Product Development and Marketing in the Semiconductor, LED, Solar. Nanotechnology and Specialty Gases / Chemicals markets. He has been with CVD Equipment Corporation for nine years.
Gary was the Founder, President and CEO of Stainless Design Corp. (SDC) from 1987 until 1999. SDC designed and manufactured Ultra High Purity gas and chemical delivery systems for the Semiconductor Industry . Prior to SDC, Gary transitioned through various managerial positions before becoming Director of Sales for Cryo Dyne Corp from 1977 to 1987. Cryo Dyne Corp. packaged and distributed Industrial / Ultra High Purity Specialty Gases/Chemicals and related Gas Delivery Equipment to the Semiconductor, R&D and industrial markets.
Mr. Dyal has participated on committees and advi sory boards of numerous organizations during his career promoting the industry, education, quality and standardization for equipment design, build and installation. Organizations include Semi Sematech, Total Quality Management - Boston Area, Semiconductor Equipment Counsel (TQM - BASE Counsel), Mid-Atlantic Equipment Council, New York State Office of Science , Technology and Innovation – Manufacturing Extension Program (MEP), The Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC), New Energy New York and NY Loves Nanotech.
On November 11 and December 2, 2007 Gary presented CVD Equipment Corporation on the NanoNow TV Show (Fox 23 ) sponsored by the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany. He was also featured in the September 2007 issue of Small Times magazine in an article on Nanotube synthesis equipment.
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Peter Garcia
Chief Financial Officer, Nanosys, Inc.
Mr. Garcia joined Nanosys in July 2004 as their Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Garcia has over 20 years experience in various financial roles at biotechnology and high technology companies. Prior to Nanosys, Mr. Garcia was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Nuvelo Inc. (NASDAQ:NUVO), a biopharmaceutical company. During his three plus years at Nuvelo, he helped raise over $150 million, acquire development stage products for the company, and led the acquisition of Variagenics Inc.. Prior to Nuvelo, Mr. Garcia served as Chief Financial Officer for Novacept Inc., IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, and Dendreon Corporation. He was instrumental in raising over $500 million for these companies. His prior financial operations experience comes from Amgen Inc. and Teradata Corporation where he held a variety of financial management positions. Mr. G arcia has an M.B.A. from the Anderson School at University of California Los Angeles and a B.A. in Economics and Sociology from Stanford University.
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Charles Gassenheimer
Chief Executive Officer and a Director, Ener1 Group
Charles Gassenheimer is Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Ener1 Group. He oversees the firm’s private equity division, which includes its portfolio companies, and Ener1 Group’s expansion into asset management and merchant banking.
Prior to joining Ener1 Group, Mr. Gassenheimer was Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of both the Convertible Arbitrage Division and Private Investment Group of Satellite Asset Management, a hedge fund with approximately $6 billion in assets under management and offices in New York and London. Before joining Satellite, he was Portfolio Manager and head of the distressed securities investment group of Tribeca Investments, Ltd. Tribeca is the hedge fund division of Citigroup Global Investments. Prior to that he served as a Vice President at Credit Suisse First Boston where he was a senior credit analyst within the global convertible bond division and Investment Manager of a proprietary hedge fund focused on private investments in public equities. Throughout his career he has been responsible for sourcing, structuring and managing hundreds of debt and equity investments in both the private and public marketplaces.
Mr. Gassenheimer began his career with Coopers & Lybrand in the field of operational and financial turn-around management services. He graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Charles E. Harris
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group, Inc
Prior to 1984, Mr. Harris had an 18 year career in the investment industry, including serving as Chairman of Wood, Struthers and Winthrop Management Corp., the investment advisory subsidiary of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He is a past Trustee, and current Co-Chairman of the President’s Council, of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), a research and education institution in molecular biology and genetics, and a current Trustee and Chairman of the audit committee of Nidus Center, a life sciences business incubator. He is a life-sustaining fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Shareholder of its Entrepreneurship Center. He was a member of the Advisory Panel for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He was graduated from Princeton University (A.B.) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.).
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Jack D. Hidary
Founder, Jack D. Hidary Foundation
Jack D. Hidary has built his career as an entrepreneur in the finance and technology sectors. Most recently, Hidary co-founded Vista Research in 2001 as an independent financial research company serving institutional investors. Jack sold Vista to the Standard & Poor's division of McGraw-Hill in April of 2005.
Prior to founding Vista Research, Hidary co-founded and served as President and CEO of EarthWeb. During this time he raised three private rounds of equity and completed a record breaking initial public offering. Under Hidary's leadership, EarthWeb earned the prestigious Business Week Info Tech 100 award as the third fastest growing IT Company.
Committed to community and philanthropic causes, Hidary has received several industry and community awards as well as being recognized as a Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum , Davos. Hidary is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Young Leadership Fellow of the National Committee on China-US Relations and a member of YPO.
He currently sits on the Board of Directors at TrickleUp , a microenterprise non-profit that helps low-income people start small businesses, and is a Trustee of the Citizens Budget Commission . He is also a member of the steering committee of the Association for a Better NY and is a partner of the Partnership for NYC .
Hidary studied philosophy and neuroscience at Columbia University and was then awarded a Stanley Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Under the fellowship, Hidary conducted research in functional neuroimaging using techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to study brain and disease states.
Hidary is an active pri vate investor and a limited partner of Redpoint Ventures and the Prism Fund. A frequent keynote speaker, Hidary has presented at venues including the business schools at Yale, Harvard and Columbia.
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Edward Hughes
President & CEO, PowerMetal Technologies Inc.
Edward Hughes is the Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of PowerMetal Technologies Inc. located in Carlsbad California. PowerMetal Technologies is the leading supplier of nanotechnology enabled components to the premium consumer products industry. PowerMetal’s initial focus has been on the sporting goods industry and nano enabled products include the Metallix series of Racquets from HEAD sports, the Epic shaft from Grafalloy.
Edward has 15 years of experience in managing consumer products businesses. In 2003 Edward became Senior Vice President and General Manager for TaylorMade-adidas Golf, part of the adidas group, heading up the North American business division and Global Marketing. Edward was part of that team that turned around TaylorMade's performance and grew both sales and doubled profits.
In 1997 Edward suc cessfully led Maxfli Golf, one of the leading golf ball companies in the market today, as Vice President & General Manager. Previously to his position at Maxfli Golf, Edward was Vice President of Marketing for Dunlop Slazenger Group Americas. This multi-brand sporting goods business competed in categories including golf, tennis and squash.
Before entering the sporting goods industry Edward was an executive at The Pillsbury Company, including roles as Director of Strategy and Group Marketing Manager. In addition as part of the Strategy Team at Elders IXL, Australia’s largest company he was involved in many international acquisition.
Edward is known and respected as a leader from his colleagues and in his community where he is widely sought out to speak at various events and forums. Edward serves on the Board of several San Diego based non profit organizations including the Harvard Business School Club and the San Diego Girls Scouts Organization.
Edward earned his Bachelors and Masters De gree from Cambridge University, England and his MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar.
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Andrew T. Hunt
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, nGimat
Andrew T. Hunt, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, founder of nGimat, and inventor of the Nanomiser* device and patented CCVD technology. Since starting in a one-man office, Dr. Hunt has attracted multi-million dollar strategic alliances formed on the strength of nGimat's technology, built research partnerships with over thirty industry-leading companies and many government agencies, and completed 5 international industrial licenses to grow nGimat technology usage. Additionally, Dr. Hunt has published materials related efforts as two book chapters and over twenty scientific papers, and has several dozen patents issued or pending as a result of his work at nGimat. Dr. Hunt received his B.S. from Auburn (Geology), Masters Degree in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines and his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engin eering from Georgia Tech in 1993. He is associated with Georgia Tech through membership in the Hill Society and Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni, chairman of the external advisory to the school of Materials Science & Engineering, Trustee of the Alumni Association, and a member of the College of Engineering advisory board. He was a 2002 invited attendee of the National Academy of Engineering 's Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) and the 2005 German-American FOE.
nGimat Co. is a cost-effective manufacturer and innovator of engineered nanomaterials in the following areas: nanopowders, thin films and devices. nGimat's Combustion Chemical Vapor Deposition (CCVD) and NanoSpraySM Processes along with its Nanomiser® Device enable synthesis of nanoparticles and thin films. These processes are easily scalable, thereby enabling low-cost production of engineering materials with controlled composition, size, and morphology. nGimat’s product development, sales and licensing is focused in four target mark ets: 1) nanopowders and process, 2) barrier coatings, 3) electronic and optical coatings and devices, and 4) RF wireless components. nGimat offers its commercial customers product sales, license arrangements, and R&D services. nGimat also has an active program of government development grants from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense (Navy, Army, Air Force and Missile Defense Agency), the National Institute of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, and NASA. The CCVD and NanoSpraySM Processes, along with the Nanomiser® Device, for nanopowders and coatings, were invented by nGimat's founder, Dr. Andrew Hunt. nGimat has more than 30 issued U.S. patents and, numerous foreign patents and multiple patent applications covering its raw materials, processes, equipment, composition of matter, intermediate products and final products. For more information, please visit www.ngimat.com.
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Doug Jamison
Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group, Inc
Doug Jamison is President , Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., a publicly traded venture capital company listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker TINY. Harris & Harris Group focuses solely in making initial investments in “tiny” technologies, which it defines as MEMS, Microsystems, and nanotechnology.
Prior to joining Harris & Harris Group, he was a Sr. Technology Manager in the University of Utah Technology Transfer Office. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A., 1992) and the University of Utah (M.S., 1999). He is a Director of Harris & Harris Enterprises, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris & Harris Group, Inc. He is a Director of four private Harris & Harris Group portfolio companies, Chlorogen, Inc., Ev olved Nanomaterial Sciences, Inc., NanoOpto Corporation and Nextreme Thermal Solutions. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Nanotechnology Law & Business; Co-Chair of the Advisory Board, Converging Technology Bar Association; a member of the Advisory Board of MIT’s Deshpande Center IdeaStream and a member of the Advisory Board, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Nanotechnology Venture Forum. His professional societies include the Association of University Technology Managers, for which he serves on its Survey Statistics and Metrics Committee.
Additionally, he has contributed significantly to many cultural, medial and educational organizations, both in the United States and Israel.
A graduate of Columbia University and its School of Law, Krueger is a recipient of its distinguished John Jay Award and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Hebrew University of J
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Dr. Brian Johnston
Director, Kodak External Alliances, Eastman Kodak Company
Dr. Brian Johnston is employed at Eastman Kodak Company where he serves as Director, Kodak External Alliances. In this role, Brian works at the interface of a large corporation with small, early stage companies or university faculty to identify emerging technologies of future interest to Eastman Kodak. Brian engages Kodak scientists and business personnel with start-up entrepreneurs to bring technical and market perspectives to aid the growth of the small company. Brian also facilitates the negotiations that often times lead to longer-term relationships. Brian brings to this role over 20 years experience in new product development and commercialization. This has involved roles in basic research, manufacturing, product marketing and research laboratory management. Brian holds a Ph.D in organic chemistry from the University of Southampton, U.K. and an M.B.A. from the Simon School at the University of Rochester. He maintains an interest in a broad range of technologies, but has a focus on the media, materials and devices of use in printing and related technologies.
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Amy C. Jones
Lockheed Martin
Amy C. Jones has over 20 years experience managing and directing environmental and occupational safety and health programs, environmental site investigation/remediation, and new product design/development. She currently manages ESH regulatory and legislative advocacy programs for Lockheed Martin Corporation. She works to advocate regulatory standards and legislation based on sound science, fair process, and accurate communications. Amy worked with the Aerospace Industries Association to establish an industry committee to advance these same concepts. Amy also leads the development of ESH policy for her Lockheed Martin. Recently she and her team developed a corporate-wide policy for the Environmental, Safety and Health Management of Nanotechnology.
She serves as the Corporation’s subject matter expert for human health and ecological risk assessment, vapor intrusio n into indoor air, proposed changes to federal regulations (e.g. Toxic Substances Control Act, natural resource damages), and development and implementation of European Union regulations and directives (e.g. Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH), and Restrictions on Hazardous Substances (RoHS).
Education: Ph.D. Candidate, Toxicology, University of Massachusetts, dissertation to be complete in 2007; M.S. Organic Geochemistry, Centenary College of Louisiana, 1990; B.S., Geology, College of Engineering, Cum Laude, Louisiana Tech University, 1986
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Amit Kumar, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer & President, Combimatrix
Dr. Kumar has been President and CEO since September 2001. He has been a Director since September 2000. Previously, Dr. Kumar was Vice President of Life Sciences of Acacia Research Corp. (NASDAQ: ACRI). From January 1999 to February 2000, Dr. Kumar was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Signature BioSciences, Inc., a life science company developing technology for advanced research in genomics, proteomics and drug discovery. From January 1998 to December 1999, Dr. Kumar was an Entrepreneur in Residence with Oak Investment Partners, a venture capital firm. From October 1996 to January 1998, Dr. Kumar was a Senior Manager at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., a biotechnology company. From October 1993 to September 1996, Dr. Kumar was Head of Research & Development for Idetek Corporation, which was later acquired by Idexx Laborat ories, Inc. Dr. Kumar received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Occidental College. After joint studies at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology, he received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1991. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University in 1993.
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Scott Landstrom
President, SCI Consulting, Inc.
Scott Landstrom, currently President of SCI Consulting, Inc., has held numerous Senior Executive positions in his 25 year career in Semicondutor and Optoelectronic sectors. Most recently, he held the position of President of Volex, Inc., a $180 M, revenue supplier of optoelectronic and electronic components. With over 2400 employees, and 8 factories in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, Volex is one of the premier firms in it's field. Prior to that position, Mr. Landstrom ran worldwide Global Field Operations for Lam Research, Inc., a $2.2 Billion revenue semiconductor equipment supplier. In this role, Mr. Landstrom was responsible for worldwide Sales, Service and Field Engineering, managing an international work force ofover 2100 employees in over 35 countries. Prior to that, Mr. Landstrom held a number of Senior Executive roles at KLA-Tencor, a $2.5 B manufacturer of Yield Management systems for the semiconductor industry, including Vice President of Business Development. He also was elected Vice President of the worldwide photomask technical society during his time running worldwide Engineering for DuPont Photomasks, Inc. Mr. Landstrom has a B.S. degree in Physics from Syracuse University/SUNY and an MBA degree from Santa Clara University. His current assignment, having been retained by the CEO of Lam Research since March of this year, is to investigate strategic growth opportunities for Lam in emerging markets, primarily nanotechnology and solar sectors.
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Robert K. Lifton
Chairman and CEO, Medis Technologies
Mr. Lifton holds an B.B.A. degree from the School of Business Administration, City University of New York He graduated Magna Cum Laude and was elected to the honorary society Beta Gamma Sigma. In 1951 he received an L.L.B. degree from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Note Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1952.
After serving as an officer in the Navy Supply Corps, Mr. Lifton was an associate attorney with Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler in 1955 and 1956. In 1956 he began extensive real estate activities with his present partner. In 1961 he organized, again with his partner, The Transcontinental Investing Corporation, with Mr. Lifton serving as its President until 1968 when it was listed on The New York Stock Exchange. He was then Chairman of the Board until i ts merger in 1972. He was Chairman of Security Mortgage Investors a publicly owned REIT.
Mr. Lifton is Chairman and CEO of Medis Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MDTL) In addition to a broad range of interests in the real estate, finance, and entertainment fields, Mr. Lifton was a founder, past President and Director of Preferred Health Care, Ltd. and president of Team America Inc., the U.S. National Soccer Team. He is also an officer and director of a number of other privately held companies. He is a Director and member of Executive and Investment Committees of Bank Leumi, USA and director of Leumi Investments, Inc.
From 1972 to 1978 he was Visiting Lecturer in Law at both the Columbia Law School and Yale Law School where he taught basic and advanced courses in real estate and real estate financing.
Mr. Lifton has written and lectured extensively on the subject of Real Estate. An article entitled “Real Estate in Trouble” was published in the July 1976 issue of The Business Lawyer, and he holds the Graham and Dodd Award for the best article in the Financial Analysts Journal for 1962. His book, “Creative Real Estate: Business Tax and Legal Strategies,” was published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in March 1979 and was a book club selection for the Lawyer’s Book Club and the Executive’s Book Club. The book is now in its second edition.
Mr.Lifton is Chairman of the International Board of the U.S./Middle East Project of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of the Public Health Research Institute and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Center for Public Health. He was President of the American Jewish Congress from 1988- 1994 and received its prestigious Stephen S.Wise award. Prior to that he was the Chairman of its Fund for Religious Liberty. He was President of Israel Policy Forum, which he helped found in 1993 and now is Chairman, Emeritus; a member of the executive committee of AIPAC; a Vice Chair of NJCRAC; on the Board of Directors of the Abraham Fund; Builders for Peace; the Tel-Aviv and Georgia O’Keefe Museums; The BESA Institute; The International Board of Bar Ilan University, and HIAS. He has served as a trustee of the NYU Real Estate Institute and as Chairman of the Oversight Committee of the NYU Masters Program in Real Estate. He was Chairman of the Parents Committee of Barnard College from 1977 to 1978 and was a member of the Committee of the Collection of Whitney Museum from 1978 to 1980. In 1984 he was presented with the Distinguished Achievement award by the Alumni of the Baruch School of Business Administration
In June 1993, Mr. Lifton received a degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris Causa from Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Mr. Lifton is listed in “Who’s Who in America”.
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David Macdonald
Nanomix
David Macdonald provides Nanomix with 25 years of product development and commercialization experience. Mr. Macdonald has cultivated several high performance teams that achieve aggressive goals in technical product and service environments. These teams have developed and launched hundreds of medical device and diagnostic products sold directly in the United States and Western Europe, as well as through independent distribution relationships worldwide. Mr. Macdonald served as President and COO of Nichols Institute Diagnostics, a division of Quest Diagnostics, as President and CEO of Progeny Systems and Medical Electronic Systems, in operational roles at Behring Diagnostics and Nova Biomedical, and most recently as the Senior Vice President Global Operations and Business Development at Nanogen. Mr. Macdonald holds a BSBA degree from Northeastern University, a MBA degree f rom Babson College and is originally from the Boston area.
Nanomix is a leading electronic detection company launching detection devices based on Sensation technology. These scaleable devices use ultra-sensitive carbon nanotube detection elements combined with proprietary chemistries. They can be deployed across high-value respiratory and biomarker detection applications where low power consumption, small size, and ultra-sensitivity offer significant performance advantages and enable unprecedented access to critical information. For additional information, please visit www.nano.com.
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Stephen B. Maebius
Partner, Foley & Lardner
Stephen B. Maebius is a partner in Foley’s Washington, D.C. office, and leader of the Nanotechnology Industry Team. He is a member of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical, Private Equity & Venture Capital and Public Affairs Practice Groups, as well as the Emerging Technologies and Life Sciences Industry Teams. He is also a member of the firm’s International Practice. Mr. Maebius serves on the advisory board of the NanoBusiness Alliance, he is an editor-in-chief of the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he was a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in the Biotechnology Group. He has also been a visiting associate professor of intellectual property law at Tokyo University's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, as well as a faculty adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, where he taught comparative and international patent law. Mr. Maebius regularly operates in Japan, working with the firm's Tokyo office.
Mr. Maebius lectures on intellectual property topics in the U.S. and abroad and has authored a number of articles in the field. In addition, he testified at the 2002 FTC/DOJ hearings on the "Implications of Competition and Patent Law and Policy."
Mr. Maebius graduated from Cornell University (B.S. biology, 1989); and the George Washington University Law School (J.D., 1994). Mr. Maebius is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the State of Virginia, before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Maebius has been rated AV, the highest performance rating possible, in Martindale-Hubbell’s peer review rating system.
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Kevin D. Maloney
President, CEO, Co-Founder & Director, QuantumSphere Inc.
Mr. Maloney has a long-standing history of starting, building and scaling successful businesses. Mr. Maloney's seasoned investment, managerial, sales and marketing experience has significantly contributed to QuantumSphere's global exposure and rapid business growth over the last four years. Prior to co-founding QuantumSphere, Mr. Maloney was Vice President of Institutional Sales/Marketing at First American Corp.'s (NYSE: FAF) Capital Management Division, an institutional investment advisory firm that services endowment funds, foundations and pension plans. Previously, Mr. Maloney served as a Compliance Officer and Registered Principal at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO). Mr. Maloney has been involved with five start-ups over the last 13 years. He has raised funds for numerous private equity placements and held NAS D Series 7, 26, 63 and 65 securities licenses. Mr. Maloney is an instructor for Loyola Marymount University's Nanotechnology Certificate Program and a frequent panelist at various industry conferences. Mr. Maloney has been awarded two U.S. patents and earned his B.A. from the University of California, Irvine and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University
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Dr. Mark Melliar-Smith
Chief Executive Officer, Molecular Imprints
Dr. Mark Melliar-Smith is the Chief Executive Officer for Molecular Imprints, a start-up company located in Austin Texas, which develops and manufactures imprint lithography tools. Prior to joining Molecular Imprints, Mark was a Venture Partner with Austin Ventures (2002-2003), a venture capital firm located in Austin, Texas and before that he was the President and CEO of SEMATECH (1997 to 2001) and the Chief Technical Officer for Lucent Technologies Microelectronics, the forerunner of Agere Systems, from 1990 through 1996. In his thirty five year career in high technology, Mark has held a wide variety of technical and management positions in R&D, manufacturing and business management, including Executive Director of the Bell Laboratories Photonics and Integrated Circuit Division, and also as the VP and General Manager of the AT&T Lightwave Business Unit. He serves on the Board of Directors for Power-One (Camarillo, CA), Technitrol (Philadelphia, PA), Metrosol (Austin, TX) and Molecular Imprints (Austin, TX). Dr. Melliar-Smith holds BS, PhD and MBA degrees, and lives with his wife, Pat, in Austin Texas.
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Kevin M. McGovern
Chairman and CEO, McGovern Capital LLC
Kevin M. McGovern, has served as Chairman and CEO of McGovern Capital LLC, since April 2000 which provides Intellectual Property Rights strategy and originates, structures, and implements capital formation, joint ventures, and business alliances. Mr. McGovern has also served as the chairman of Greenwich Alliances, Ltd., since January 1997 which specializes in the formulation and negotiation of strategic alliances and has participated in over 20 business alliances worldwide. He has been the owner and managing partner of the law firm McGovern & Associates since January 1983, located in New York, New York. The firm specializes in corporate law, with an emphasis on emerging businesses, merger and acquisitions, venture capital, patent enforcement, and research and development financings. Mr. McGovern is a founder and/or key shareholder in over 20 companies, and five of the companies he co-founded or in which he is a key participant - all based on proprietary technologies - are currently leaders in their respective industry's product categories. These companies include SOBE Beverages (nutraceutical leader sold to Pepsi); TriStrata, the worldwide owner of all Intellectual Property to Alpha Hydroxy Acids comprising the single most successful technology in skin care history and KX Industries, the world leader in consumer carbon, water and air filters. He has also served as the Co-Chairman of Angstrom Publishing which publishes with Forbes worldwide 'The Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report' since 2002. He formerly served on the Board of the Sports Authority (NYSE) (Exec, Audit and Comp committees) and Nobel Education Learning Communities, Inc. (NYSE). Mr. McGovern has served on Cornell University's Board of Trustees since July 2001 and has served as Co-Chairman of the Technology/IP Committee since July 2006. He also currently teaches at the Cornell/Johns on graduate business school, a course entitled 'Global Innovation and Commercialization'. Mr. McGovern received his A.B. from Cornell University in 1970 and his JD in 1975 St. John's University School of Law.
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Dr. Bernard S. Meyerson
Vice President for Strategic Alliance and Chief Technologist, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Dr. Meyerson became chief technologist of IBM's Technology Group in 2001, and in 2003, he assumed operational responsibility for IBM's Semiconductor Technology Research and Development as head of the SRDC (Semiconductor Research and Development Center). In that role he led the world's largest semiconductor development consortium, members of which include Sony, Toshiba, AMD, Samsung, Chartered Semiconductor, and Infineon. In December 2005, he was appointed to the position of vice president of Strategic Alliances and CTO of IBM's System Technology Group.
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F. Mark Modzelewski
Co-Founder, NanoBusiness Alliance and Vice President of Strategic Opportunities, NanoDynamics
F. Mark Modzelewski joined us in May 2005 as our Vice President of Strategic Opportunities. In 2004, he co-founded Lux Research, a research and advisory firm focusing on nanotechnology. In 2003, he founded The Benet Group, a private equity firm focused on developing early stage, bio-nanotechnology companies. In 2001, he founded the NanoBusiness Alliance, the first nanotechnology trade association, and continues to serve as its Executive Chairman. Prior to the formation of the Alliance, Mr. Modzelewski served as Vice President, Business Development for Opion, a surveillance and marketing technology company, Director of Niehaus, Ryan & Wong, New York, and an account leader at Golin/Harris International. He is currently a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the Presi dent's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and previously served as a special assistant to Secretary Cisneros (HUD) and Secretary Glickman (USDA) during the Clinton administration. Mr. Modzelewski is a graduate of Boston University and received a J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law.
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Edward K. Moran
Director of Product Innovation and Leader, Nanotech Industry Practice, Deloitte Services, LP
Edward K. Moran is director of Deloitte Service’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) group’s Tri-State Product Innovation Practice. He also heads up Deloitte Service's Nanotech Industry Practice, and is a leader of its Tri-State VC-backed company practice. Mr. Moran consults with TMT companies on strategy and operations, corporate finance, product innovation and commercialization, and competitive positioning. He also serves as a Deloitte global subject matter expert in technology, and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Selection Advisory Committee.
Mr. Moran is a member of the National Academies’ National Nanotech Initiative (NNI) Review Committee, which was chartered by Congress to evaluate the National Nanotechnology Initiative program. Specifical ly, Mr. Moran and the committee have been asked by Congress to evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the multi-agency NNI program, to recommend new or revised goals and metrics, to analyze the relative position of the United States in this growing field, and to analyze the impact of nanotechnology on the U.S. economy.
Mr. Moran is Executive Director of the New York State NanoBusiness Alliance, and sits on the Advisory Board of the NanoBusiness Alliance. Mr. Moran holds a J.D. from New York Law School (where he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of International and Comparative Law), and earned an MBA in information systems and in management from New York University (where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma). He speaks widely on the topics of product innovation, business strategy, nanotechnology, technology commercialization and the financing of technology companies.
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Fern P. O'Brian
Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
Fern O'Brian specializes in health effects litigation and regulatory matters involving product liability and toxic tort. She has litigated numerous cases involving medical and pharmaceutical products, consumer products, environmental exposures to heavy metals and chemicals and tobacco, among others. She co-heads the firm's interdisciplinary nanotechnology industry group. Ms. O'Brian also regularly counsels clients on liability prevention, regulatory matters and liability-related transactional issues.
Most recently, she is representing a private research and university consortium in pursuing a bid for a national bioterror research laboratory. She has represented Wyeth in its defense of the diet drug ("phen-fen") litigation. She served as national counsel for a major bloodbank in US AIDS and hepatitis C cases. Ms. O'Brian is a frequent author and spea ker on product liability and mass tort issues such as class actions, admissibility of expert evidence and product liability prevention.
Ms. O'Brian previously served as the head of the firm's London office, returning in 2003 to the Washington office. Prior to joining Arnold & Porter LLP, she served as a law clerk to former Circuit Judge Kenneth W. Starr of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Dr. David J. Palmer
Head, Department of Engineering, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Dr. David J. Palmer is currently the Head of the Department of Engineering. Prior to this, he was the Deputy Assistant Superintendent for Academic Affairs (Assistant Academic Dean) and an Associate Professor of Engineering at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, one of the five federal academies. He earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Marine Engineering Systems from the United States Merchant Marine Academy; a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic University and a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, from Polytechnic University, concentrating in Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer and Engineering Management. His dissertation entitled A Combined Gas Cooled Nuclear Reactor and Fuel Cell Cycle dealt with a combined cycle marine engineering propulsion system which allowed him to further specialize in marine engineering, gas cooled nuclear reactors and solid oxide fuel cells.
Dr. Palmer is also a graduate of the United States Navy’s Nuclear Power Program, where he was certified as an Engineering Officer of the Watch, Nuclear Plant Engineer and senior Engineering Duty Officer. Dr. Palmer used these certifications during his employment with General Electric’s Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory where he had the responsibility of training and certifying Navy personnel in the operation of Nuclear Power for our nation’s submarines and aircraft carriers. His position as Nuclear Engineering Officer of the Watch and Nuclear Plant Engineer permitted him not only to be a member on the watch team operating a nuclear reactor and an entire marine propulsion plant, but also to lead as the senior member of the team with overall responsibility of overseeing the nuclear reactor and marine propulsion plant.
At the Academy, Professor Palmer held many responsibilities within the Academic Di vision in areas such as the budget, strategic planning, United States Coast Guard, Middle States, STCW and Academic Review Boards. He participated and assisted in several Middle States, STCW and ABET audits and was a key player in a major reengineering effort to convert the Academy's curriculum from a quarter to a tri-semester system. Further, he lead an ongoing budget plan to refurbish and upgrade the Academy's many laboratories, simulators and classrooms to meet the needs and standards of the 21st century.
Dr. Palmer is a Commander in the United States Navy Reserve where he held several positions in the Selective Reserve with the Naval Control and Guidance of Shipping. He is currently a Commander in the Merchant Marine Individual Ready Reserve and holds a current STCW-95 United States Coast Guard Engineer's license. Further, he is on the Board of Directors for the Global Maritime and Transportation School and is an active member on many other committees throughout the academy including the Academi c Board, Strategic Planning Committee, Master Plan Committee and the STCW Committee.
Professor Palmer is a recipient of the MARAD Star for Extraordinary Contribution and the Federal Executive Board Employee of the Year Award. Dr. Palmer and his wife, Lisa, are the parents of three children, Marisa Ann, Allison Nicole, and Scott David. They reside on Long Island.
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Leonard Poveromo
Director of Technology Development AEW/EW, Northrop Grumman
Leonard Poveromo is currently the Director of Technology Development for Northrop Grumman’s AEW/EW business area. Mr. Poveromo has held leadership positions in the Advanced Composite community throughout his 35-year career. His technical contributions and involvement with professional societies have been significant to the Advanced Composites industry whose evolution his career has paralleled. He currently is a fellow of SAMPE, a member of the Editorial Review Board of the SAMPE Quarterly Magazine, and a member of SCRA’s Technical Advisory Board. He has authored over 30 technical papers, holds several patents, was awarded SPI’s “Centerpoise Award”, and was past Program and General Chairman of SAMPE’s National Technical Conference and the Carbon Fiber Conferences.
Mr. Poveromo has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering f rom Lehigh University and an MBA from Hofstra University.
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Stéphane Robert
President and CEO, Raymor Industries
Stéphane Robert is responsible for re-focusing company activities from "resource-based" to "technology-driven" in the area of advanced materials, nanomaterial, and nanotechnology. Mr. Robert has raised C$25M for Raymor, and has led the company’s efforts to acquire over 20 advanced material and nanomaterial patents, including the highly scaleable, plasma-based process to produce single-walled carbon nanotubes, a material which will be the technology platform for a multitude of applications in aerospace, defense, electronics, and consumer goods, just to name a few. Through Mr. Robert’s leadership, Raymor has assembled a team of internationally renowned experts in the thermal plasma, material science and carbon nanotubes fields.
With an engineering degree from the University of Laval (1987), Mr. Robert initially pursuing his area of study in Ca nada and West Africa. During this time, he oriented his sharp entrepreneurial skills towards the financing and acquisition of mining properties and high technology industrial projects for public and private companies. Joining Raymor in 1996 and becoming President in 1997, Mr. Robert has negotiated several partnerships, including SOQUEM, McGill University, PyroGenesis, and INRS. Mr. Robert is also founding president of two wholly-owned industrial subsidiaries: Raymor Nanotech Inc., a business focused on the production of single-walled carbon nanotubes and development of related applications, and AP&C Advanced Powders & Coatings Inc., a business focused on the supply of spherical metallic powders, thermal spray coating and nanocoating services, and net-shape forming technology for high value-added applications in aerospace, defense, biomedical, energy and other industrial sectors.
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Richard M. Saburro
President and CEO, Starfire Systems, Inc.
Richard Saburro came to Starfire in July, 2001, with broad based leadership and management experience in the military, academe and private business. Prior to joining Starfire Saburro completed a four-year US Air Force active duty assignment as a colonel and Commander of Support Forces Antarctica. In this position, as the senior ranking US military commander in New Zealand and Antarctica, he was responsible for transitioning the US Antarctic Program from 45 years of US Navy command to the Air Force. The Director of National Science Foundation and the National Science Board formally recognized him for his accomplishments, including the South Pole rescue of Dr Jerri Nielson and hosting a visit by President Clinton. Mr. Saburro retired from the military after 31 years of service in April, 2001.
Saburro held a number of positions in techn ology development in the Capital Region, prior to his Antarctic assignment, while carrying on his military career as a pilot in the New York Air National Guard. His technology development positions included Deputy Director for Business Development at University at Albany’s New York State Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology and Business Analyst at the Center for Economic Growth. He was recognized for his accomplishments in assisting high technology companies as the first New York State winner of the Small Business Administration’s national Tibbetts award.
Mr. Saburro developed his skills in manufacturing management at General Electric Company where he graduated from their Manufacturing Management Program in 1979. He advanced rapidly at GE to manager of manufacturing engineering for Power Capacitors in Hudson Falls, NY. In this position he led the “Factory with a Future” program and introduced “Just in Time” manufacturing to the department.
Prior to his GE career, Mr. Saburro served on activ e military duty in the US Air Force as a pilot of the C-141 jet transport on worldwide cargo missions including presidential support. He graduated from Union College in 1970 with a B.S. in physics. Mr. Saburro lives in Saratoga and has three grown daughters.
Starfire Systems is an advanced ceramic materials company offering a novel technology for high temperature, high performance materials, with applications in electronics, transportation and aerospace. Starfire offices are located in the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park in Malta, NY.
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George M. Scalise
President, Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
George M. Scalise is president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where he directs a staff focused on International Trade & Government Affairs, Workforce, Technology, Environmental Safety & Health, and Communications.
Mr. Scalise came to the SIA from Apple Computer, where he served as executive vice president of operations. Prior to that, he held executive management positions at National Semiconductor, Maxtor Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, Fairchild Semiconductor and Motorola Semiconductor.
A graduate of Purdue University with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering, Mr. Scalise is a highly respected technology industry spokesperson with special interest and expertise in technology, international trade, and competition issues. He was a founding member of the Semiconductor Research C orporation, an industry-funded organization that provides resources for pre-competitive semiconductor research at American universities.
Mr. Scalise currently serves on President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology as well as numerous boards, including Cadence Design Systems, Intermolecular, and iSuppli Corporation. He has also served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and been on the boards of SEMATECH, Semiconductor Research Corporation, the Bay Area Economic Forum, Dubai Silicon Oasis, and he was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Economic Task Force on Japan. He participates on advisory committees at the College of Engineering at Purdue University and is a member of the California Council on Science and Technology Fellows Program. He served on the advisory committees at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University and the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was named a Distinguished Engineering Al umnus of Purdue University in 2002. He also chaired the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Energy.
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Bruce Sohn
President, First Solar
Bruce Sohn joined First Solar in March 2007 as President. Mr. Sohn was formerly a senior executive at Intel Corporation and has served on First Solar's Board of Directors since 2003. During his 24 years at Intel, Mr. Sohn played a leadership role in developing and manufacturing leading-edge semiconductor technology. He served as an integral part of the start-up team at five fabs, acted as program manager for Intel's conversion to 300mm wafers and managed Intel's two largest fabs. Mr. Sohn is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a certified Jonah and has been a guest lecturer at several universities including MIT and Stanford. As First Solar's President, Mr. Sohn is responsible for manufacturing, expansion, technology development, quality, European sales, EHS, materials, MIS and worldwide human resources.
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Peter F. Stewart
Attorney, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Peter Stewart is an attorney in the corporate department of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP and is one of the leaders of its Nanotechnology Practice Group. His current nanotechnology clients include pSivida Limited, AION Diagnostics and Atomate Corporation. He has broad experience representing both public and private technology companies in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, intellectual property and commercial matters. He has guided clients through numerous initial public offerings, venture capital and other financings, strategic alliances, joint ventures, acquisitions, spin-offs and technology licenses. Before joining Curtis, Mr. Stewart was a senior political advisor to Steve Westly, California's State Controller. Prior to that, he served as general counsel to several Silicon Valley startups and was an associate at the law firms of Wilson Sonsini in Palo Alto and Skadden Arps in New York. Mr. Stewart earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law and has an undergraduate engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is admitted to practice law in New York, California and Massachusetts.
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Nathan Tinker, PhD
Founder, NanoBusiness Development Group
Nathan Tinker is a co-founder of the NanoBusiness Alliance, overseeing all industry research, education and liaison initiatives. He is also a founder of NanoBusiness Development Group, the Alliance's consulting and market intelligence arm. His clients have included Yahoo, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, Nissho Awai America Corp., DaimlerChrysler and Sprint among many others, the governments of Taiwan, Canada, US and Germany, and a host of emerging nanotechnology companies.
Nathan is a globally recognized expert in the markets of nanotechnology products, and has authored dozens of market and industry analyses and reports, including "Carbon Nanotubes: Worldwide Status and Outlook," "Small Tech Sensors: US Markets, Applications and Forecasts," and "Quantum Dot and Semiconductor Nanocrystal Patent Survey." He has been quoted in Wall Street Journal, Time, Small Times, Red Herring and other leading publications, and is an advisor to PBS's "Nanotechnology" documentary series.
Nathan is a frequent speaker at nanotechnology events, conferences and symposia. He holds a PhD from Fordham University.
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Scott Walsh
Project Manager, Environmental Defense
Scott Walsh, a project manager with Environmental Defense, manages partnerships with leading companies to improve environmental and business performance. Most recently, he led Environmental Defense’s partnership with DuPont to develop the Nano Risk Framework (www.nanoriskframework.com) a comprehensive, flexible and practical system to assess and reduce environmental safety and health risks of engineered nanomaterials. He has also worked on projects addressing fleet management, sustainable seafood and antibiotic resistance. Previously, Scott worked as a business strategy consultant and as an environmental policy consultant. As a business consultant with Boston Consulting Group, Scott advised companies on organizational and process design, market strategy, and product development. As an environmental consultant with Jellinek, Schwartz & Connolly, Scott advised companies on pollution control, worker safety, product formulation and legislative and regulatory strategy. Scott holds an MBA from the University of Virginia and a BA in Environmental Geology from Yale University.
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Barry Weinbaum
President & CEO, NanoOpto Corporation
Barry Weinbaum assumed the role of President & CEO of NanoOpto Corporation in August 2001 after a 21-year career at Lucent Technologies and AT&T, where his most recent position was as Vice President - Optical Long Haul Solutions (DWDM), Lucent’s largest optical systems business. At Lucent/AT&T, his background in optics, enterprise communications, networking, wireless and voice processing helped Mr. Weinbaum established a record of leading start-up, established and turn-around operations to market leadership in a variety of product and technology areas.
Career Highlights include: Director of Lucent’s Mergers and Acquisition team for the Optical Networking Group (1999-2000), General Manager – Enterprise Wireless PBX communications (1995-1999), General Manager: Voice Response (1991-1995). Mr. Weinbaum was a pioneer of the Computer Telephony b usiness (1990-1991), which helped lead to many of the Call Center and CRM applications of today. Mr. Weinbaum started his career as a Bell Laboratories engineer and holds two patents. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Union College in Schenectady, NY, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Since joining NanoOpto, Mr. Weinbaum has been an oft-invited speaker at many nanotechnology, optical and venture conferences including: IBF’s Nanotechnology Investing Forum – 2003-2005, NanoEquity Europe 2005, VentureWire's Network Outlook 2004 Conference, NanoBusiness 2002-2005, the 2004 Red Herring Top 100, and at VentureOne’s Exchange and Summit conferences. He has also been a presenter at Supercomm, Comnet, Networld+Interop and CTIA Wireless.
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David H. Wells
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
David joined the Greentech investing team at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in early 2006. Responsibilities include knowledge mapping and opportunity sourcing across the entire landscape of Green technologies. Building relationships with scientists and entrepreneurs throughout the US and Europe, David has helped bring many ventures through the KP investment process including due diligence, team building, goal setting and deal structuring.
Beginning with a collaboration with KP partner Bill Joy in 2004, David has built a detailed and diverse base of Greentech knowledge across multiple energy technologies and scientific disciplines, together with a matching knowledge base of resources, markets and incumbents. Every aspect of energy and water production, transport and use, including emissions impacts, has been studied in detail and mapped to ta rget recognition of disruptive order-of-magnitude and tipping-point innovations.
David’s background includes eight years building a nation-wide business in Japan, three years of business consulting, and ten years of technical experience in marine engineering.
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Jesko von Windheim
CEO, Nextreme Thermal Solutions
Currently Jesko von Windheim is CEO of Nextreme Thermal Solutions. Nextreme is developing the next generation thermoelectrics for applications that require extreme thermal management solutions. The technology has the potential to dramatically improve thermal management for the next generation of microprocessors and other integrated circuits. Other applications include refrigeration, personal heating/cooling, power generation, cooling microprocessors, fiber-optic switches, biotechnology and automotive energy management.
Jesko has been a key contributor in a number of start-up companies the most significant of which was Cronos Integrated Microsystems (a microelectromechanical systems – MEMS – company) where he was a co-founder and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.
In 1997 Jesko joined a nonprofit North Carolina technology incubator, MCNC Corp., to create and implement a commercial business development strategy for the organization. At MCNC he was responsible for all non-government business strategy as well as commercial sales and marketing activities. Companies formed during his tenure were Secant (later Celotek), Unitive Electronics, db Tag, and Cronos. At Cronos he was responsible for product direction, marketing & sales and forming strategic customer relationships.
Cronos became a leader in MEMS-based optical communications components and was acquired by JDS Uniphase in 2000 in what was at that time considered to be the largest transaction of its kind in North Carolina. Following the acquisition, Jesko became Vice President and General Manager of the JDSU MEMS Business Unit, responsible for the full P&L of JDSU’s MEMS activities
In 2003 Jesko joined RTI International as Entrepreneur in Residence. RTI is a $450 million, multidisciplinary research services organization operating primarily in the government sector. At RTI Jesko was responsible for identifying and commercializing promising technologies and subsequently led the management team that in 2005 spun off RTI’s acclaimed thin film thermoelectric technology into Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc.
Jesko holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics, a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry, and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler business school.
Jesko is an Adjunct Professor at Duke University Pratt School of Engineering and a Member of the Governor’s Task Force on Nanotechnology and North Carolina’s economy.
Jesko has seven patents issued in his name.
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