Turning the company around required a multi-layered initiative: creating a bold and compelling vision that differentiated Harper’s products and services, retraining and educating employees to meet the needs of an emerging business, and breaking down walls between departments.  In addition, the company began investing heavily in R&D programs, created a technology center and an applications engineering group, and began developing a company-wide innovative culture.  These demands and the demands of the accompanying growth inevitably gave rise to the need for new employees – brilliant minds that would drive the company’s future success.

Seth Coe-Sullivan
Chief Technology Officer, QD Vision

Seth is a founder and QD Vision’s technological visionary. Seth received his Electrical Engineering Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2005.  Seth's research has focused on incorporating quantum dots into hybrid organic/inorganic LEDs. This has led to work on new fabrication techniques, and the design of a completely integrated thin film deposition system.  Seth has over 10 papers and patents pending in the fields of organic light emitting devices, quantum dot LEDs and nanotechnology fabrication.

Seth graduated in the class of 1999 from Brown University with an Sc.B. in electrical engineering. He then spent a year as a Staff Engineer at the Boston based research company Foster-Miller, Inc., in the Emerging Technology division of the Materials Technology Group.

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Brian Cooke
Keating Investments

Brian Cooke joined Keating Investments in 2007 and is responsible for domestic origination with a focus on venture-backed companies. Brian has spent the past seven years as a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Newhouse Capital, a venture arm of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, instrumental in building the UK's largest mutual fund supermarket with over $25 billion under administration (Cofunds).

Prior to Newhouse, he was a senior telecom/media investment banker at Goldman Sachs & Co. for four years with clients including Allegiance Telecom, Cablevision Systems, Clear Channel Communications, Cox Enterprises and Nextel Communications. Prior to Goldman, he worked at Lehman Brothers for eight years, the majority of time providing M&A and corporate finance services to private equity firms such as Acadia Partners, Apollo Advisors, Forstmann Little & Co., Freeman Spogli & Co. and Thomas H. Lee Partners. Brian is a 1991 graduate of Harvard Business School and a 1985 cum laude graduate of Harvard College.

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Joe Grzyb
Chief Executive Officer, Reactive Nanotechnologies

Mr. Grzyb joined RNT as Chief Executive Officer in November 2004 bringing over 22 years of experience in leading, managing, and growing leading-edge semiconductor organizations. Prior to joining RNT, Mr. Grzyb spent eight years with RF Micro Devices in a variety of positions, most recently as General Manager of their largest division. His experience includes senior operating and executive positions with responsibility for overall P&L, strategy, marketing, engineering, product management and business development. He has also held senior positions at ITT Gallium Arsenide Technology Center, AmeriTech Exports, Inc. and the US Air Force’s Avionics Laboratory. Mr. Grzyb received his BS in Engineering and Masters in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.

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Michael Gurin
Chief Technology Officer, CogniTek

Michael Gurin is Chief Technology Officer of CogniTek and has been instrumental in creating the vision and technology road map for CogniTek’s nanotechnology materials and application advancements.  Mr. Gurin has co-invented the core nanotechnology at the root of CogniTek’s solution to conductivity enhancement and invented technology extensions to supercritical air conditioning / refrigeration absorption systems.  He is a 15-year veteran of technology and business development in which he strategically guided CogniTek from non-linear optimization within thermodynamic processes to the incorporation of nanoscale technologies into a wide range of heat transfer systems.  Mr. Gurin has experience in achieving growth through start-ups and is leading the spin-out reXorce Thermionics Inc. in the commercialization of a high efficiency supercritical thermal engine having applications from solar thermal and geothermal to a high efficiency (greater than 70%) alternative to the internal combustion engine.

MBA, University of Michigan, 1988 Corporate finance, and venture capital.
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 1986 Gas Dynamics and Thermodynamics, Simulation and Modeling of Control Systems.

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Vincent Guyaux
President & CEO, Imaginum

Vincent Guyaux is President  & CEO of Imaginum, a company that designs and develops next generation chips for backlit LCD displays.  Vincent has extensive management and business development experience at high-tech industries in North America, Asia and Europe.  In 2003, he founded Embrase, a management consulting firm driving high-technology ventures to sustainable growth; he is currently their chairman.  Prior positions include General Manager of Mindready's Embedded Systems Division, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing at Locus Dialog (sold to InfoSpace) and Sales Manager at Apple Canada. He is currently on the Advisory Board of iBwave.  Vincent holds a diploma in Applied Computer Science from the University of Quebec in Montreal.

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Mark Hersam
Professor, Northwestern University

Mark C. Hersam is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and co-founder of NanoIntegris. His research interests include single molecule devices, nanofabrication, scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy, semiconductor surfaces, and carbon nanotubes. Since joining Northwestern University in 2000, Dr. Hersam has received several awards including the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award (2001), National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2001), Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Fellowship (2001), Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (2005), Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2005), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2005), TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award (2006), and AVS Peter Mark Award (2006).

Dr. Hersam completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 under the support of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and an IBM Distinguished Fellowship. In 1997, Dr. Hersam received his M.Phil. in Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK) under the support of a British Marshall Scholarship. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Hersam graduated with Highest Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. Besides his educational training, Dr. Hersam has also been employed by Argonne National Laboratory and IBM T. J. Watson Research Center where he performed research on surface acoustic wave sensors and electrical properties of carbon nanotubes respectively. 

Dr. Hersam has co-authored ~60 peer reviewed publications and has given ~120 invited presentations at professional meetings and university colloquia.  Dr. Hersam is actively involved in several professional societies including AVS, APS, ACS, TMS, MRS, IEEE, and ASEE.

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Edward Hughes
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, PowerMetal Technologies

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 Sporting Goods industry.  Products include the Metallix series of Racquets from HEAD sports, the Epic shaft from Grafalloy.

Edward has 15 years of experience in managing businesses, including 10 years in the sporting goods industry. 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 profits.
In 1997 Edward successfully 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.

 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 Masters degree from Cambridge University, England and his MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar.

Memberships:
                   Young Presidents Organization
                   Harvard Business School Club
                   Business Advisory Council – National Republican Congress Committee

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Dr. Ray O. Johnson
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Dr. Ray O. Johnson is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Dr. Johnson guides the Company's technology vision and provides corporate leadership in the strategic areas of Technology and Engineering, which include more than 65,000 people working on more than 3,000 programs.

Before joining Lockheed Martin, Dr. Johnson was the Chief Operating Officer for Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI), of Alexandria, Virginia. Prior to that, he held a variety of increasingly responsible executive positions with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), including Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Concepts Business Unit. In addition to executive leadership and management positions, Dr. Johnson has experience in strategic planning, program development, program management, and venture capital funding. He served on the board of two biotechnology companies.

Dr. Johnson was a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board from 2001 to 2005, where he chaired the 2003 Summer Study titled, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Perspective: Effects, Capabilities, and Technologies and co-chaired the 2002 Summer Study titled, Predictive Battlespace Awareness. He participated in several additional Summer Studies and Science and Technology Reviews. His Air Force career included assignments in laser physics and systems design and analysis, electro-optic systems research and development, survivability, and command and control. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi. 

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Dr. Johnson holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

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Gordon Knight
Chief Executive Officer, Nanochip

Chief Executive Officer.  Nanochip has a disruptive memory chip technology employing nano-tip probes that write and read onto continuous media.  MEMs actuators move these tips across the media.  The product uses MEMs manufacturing and is not dependent upon lithography to achieve aerial densities far superior to any lithography based memory devices.

Prior to Nanochip Dr. Knight was founder and CTO and/or CEO of three optical storage companies:  Terastor Corporation, Maxoptix Corporation, and Optimem Corporation.

Dr. Knight obtained his BSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MSEE and PhDEE from Stanford University.

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F. Thomas Krotine
President and Chief Executive Officer, Ecology Coatings, Inc.

F. Thomas Krotine, Ph.D., is President and CEO of Ecology Coatings Inc., a company established to deliver nanotechnology-enhanced thin films and coatings that are solvent –free and cured with ultra-violet light in seconds.

Krotine is a former co-founder and principal of TBD Associates, LLC, a Chagrin Falls, Ohio-based management consulting firm specializing in technology and business development. An expert in metallurgy and materials science, Krotine worked with clients in a variety of technology management, corporate development, and value-added marketing programs.  His work included strategic counseling to a major electronic materials supplier, market development for a new military armor company, general management of a start-up company involved in advanced coatings, and business development support to a nanotechnology start-up.

In December 1996, Krotine led the acquisition of CV Materials, an Urbana, Ohio, a supplier of porcelain enamel and certain metallurgical products, primarily to the steel and appliance markets in North and South America and the Pacific Rim.  Krotine served as chairman and was the Company’s largest investor until the business was sold in 2000. 

Before that, he was a vice president at Minneapolis-based Valspar Corporation, where his primary responsibilities were to prepare the Canadian operation for the North American Free Trade Agreement and to turn around Valspar’s powder coatings division.

From 1980 to 1990, Krotine was with Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams Company, where he served as senior vice president with responsibility for management of the Company’s technology, and corporate environmental and health compliance.  Before that, he spent 10 years at Chicago-based Gould, Inc., as vice president of Gould Laboratories and director of product development and engineering for the Company’s engine parts division. 

Krotine holds a Ph.D. – all in metallurgy and materials science – from Case Western Reserve University. At various times, Krotine was the principal company representative to the National Paint and Coating Association, the Porcelain Enamel Institute, and the Industrial Research Institute.  He is a past president of the Case Alumni Association and trustee emeritus of Case Western Reserve University.

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Amit Kumar
CEO, CombiMatrix Corporation

Though Dr. Kumar was technically trained, he has worked as a venture capitalist, a CEO in both a public company and start-up, as well as a technology entrepreneur.  Dr. Kumar has been President and CEO of CombiMatrix Corporation (NASDAQ:CBMX) 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 Laboratories, 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.

Dr. Kumar's interest in nanotechnology started with his doctoral studies at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology where he studied semiconductor solar cells. After completing his Ph.D. he served as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University where, working with Professor George Whitesides, he was the co-inventor and author of several pioneering patents on a nanotechnology now known as Micro-Contact Printing and Soft Lithography. These patents have been licensed by Fortune 500 companies and younger public and private biotechnology firms. Since that time Dr. Kumar has worked as a scientist, a venture capitalist and company executive focused in the areas of miniaturization and nanotech. CombiMatrix is commercializing a semiconductor-based array technology that enables executing thousands of independent, chemical reactions in parallel in volumes of a few tenths of nanoliters. Commercial applications of this technology include highly parallel genetic analysis microarrays, materials synthesis, drug development, and biodefense detection systems. Dr. Kumar is a board member of the NanoBusiness Alliance and a member of the steering committee of the Washington Nanotechnology Initiative.

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Nabil Lawandy
Founder, President & CEO, Spectra Systems & Solaris Nanosciences

Nabil Lawandy is the founder President and CEO of Spectra Systems and Solaris Nanosciences. From 1981 to 1999, Dr. Lawandy was a tenured full professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.  He holds a B.A. in Physics from The Johns Hopkins University, an MSc and a PhD in Chemistry from The Johns Hopkins University.  He has authored over 170 reviewed scientific papers and is an inventor on 52 US and 27 foreign issued patents.  He has also received a Presidential Young Investigator award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Rolex Award for Enterprise and a Samuel Slater Award for innovation. 

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Michael Lefenfeld
President and CEO, SiGNa Chemistry

Michael Lefenfeld, a two-time entrepreneur, founded SiGNa Chemistry in 2004 based on a process that stabilizes reactive metals. This technology enables companies to safely harness the legendary powers of alkali materials. As President and CEO of SiGNa, Mr. Lefenfeld is applying his science and materials expertise to drive the adoption of these advanced materials into the mainstream of chemical reactivity and hydrogen fuel markets. Under Mr. Lefenfeld’s leadership, SiGNa will achieve profitability in its second full year of operation and has secured industry veterans such as BASF, DuPont, ExxonMobil, Motorola, Pfizer, and Shell Chemical as customers.

Prior to SiGNa, Mr. Lefenfeld independently commercialized several biomedical and chemical technologies, starting at the age of 19. Additionally, he has been employed as a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and a researcher at DuPont. In addition to over 10 scientific publications, he holds several patents and patent applications in areas ranging from controlled release to organic electronics to chemical reactivity. In 2005, Mr. Lefenfeld was featured on the cover of Red Herring as Top Researcher, and was named BusinessWeek’s Top 20 Entrepreneurs Under 25. Mr. Lefenfeld earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Physics at Washington University in St. Louis and a S.M. in Chemistry at Columbia University.

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Martin Lessard
President & CEO, Nanometrix

Martin Lessard is President & CEO of Nanometrix, a developer of coating technologies for resists and other materials.  Martin has international experience in the marketing and business development of emerging technologies and has provided executive management and corporate development best practices to early stage ventures.  Since 2006, he has been a Partner at Embrase, a management consulting firm driving high-technology ventures to sustainable growth.  His twenty years experience in turning strategies into action plans and growing sales includes senior executive positions with CESART - a Bell Canada company, Mindready Solutions and My Virtual Model. Martin currently serves on the advisory boards of DetectVision and LilyEcolo.  He holds a Marketing Management degree from HEC Montreal and a Performance Coaching degree from UQAM University.

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Scott Livingston
Managing Director, Axiom Capital Management Inc.

Scott Livingston is a Managing Director of Axiom Capital Management Inc. (Axiom) and head of the Livingston Group, an investment and corporate advisory group within Axiom focused on nanotechnology.  Axiom Capital Management Inc. provides wealth management, investment banking, prime brokerage and private equity services.

Mr. Livingston has been called “sharp and highly connected” by the Forbes Wolfe Nanotechnology Report (July 1, 2005) and has been an invited speaker on nanotechnology investment trends at the Harvard Club, the Nanobusiness Alliance, the Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Nanotechnology.com, the International Business Forum, the Delaware Technology Park, the Business Executives for National Security, Hilary Clinton’s Jobs for New York, and has presented to half a dozen state pension leaders across the country.  Scott is also the creator of the first annual Axiom Capital Management “Livingston Nanotechnolgy Conference”, one of the largest nanotechnology conferences of the year. 

Previously, Scott has served as a Senior Vice President – Investment Management at Lehman Brothers, where he began his nanotechnology focus. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 2000, Scott was a Director of the Private Client Group at SG Cowen Securities, and prior to that was at Drexel and Smith Barney. 

Scott is a SUNY Albany graduate.  He is a board member of the NanoBusiness Alliance and a founding board member of the NY Nanobusiness Alliance.  Scott sits on the board of the Nanoethics Group and the Dolan DNA Learning Center at the Coldspring Harbor Labs.  He is married with three children and lives in Long Island, NY. 

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Cédric Loiret-Bernal, M.D.
Chief Executive Officer, NanoInk

Dr. Loiret-Bernal joined NanoInk in October 2003. He is the former chief executive officer and co-founder of GeneProt Inc., an industrial-scale proteomics company for which he raised more than $150 million from institutional investors and corporate partners such as Novartis, Compaq (now HP) and Bruker.

Dr. Loiret-Bernal joins NanoInk from CDP Capital Technology Ventures, the largest Canadian institutional investor. At CDP, he was venture advisor for life sciences investments in the U.S.

Prior to GeneProt, he was a partner and senior investment analyst at Brinson Partners (now part of UBS Global Asset Management), an asset management division with healthcare holdings in excess of $3 billion. He also held many other senior positions in corporate strategic planning for Abbott Laboratories, in marketing at Haemonetics and Porgès-Synthélabo.

Dr. Loiret-Bernal holds a doctor of medicine degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Bordeaux and has an MBA degree from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

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David Macdonald
President and CEO, Nanomix

David Macdonald is currently the President and CEO at Nanomix, a company launching a portfolio of devices based on Sensation™ nanoelectronic detection technology. Mr. Macdonald brings to Nanomix over 20 years of product development and commercialization experience where he has successfully developed several high performance teams that achieve aggressive goals in technical product and service environments. These teams have successfully developed and launched hundreds of 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 of Global Operations and Business Development at Nanogen. Mr. Macdonald holds a BSBA degree from Northeastern University, a MBA degree from Babson College and is originally from the Boston area.

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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.

Publications:
"Bayer Highlights Debate on Research Method Use (Patent Won't Cover Fruit of Offshore Research Not Made with the Method)" (Natl. Law Journal, 2001)
"Extending Process Claims From Intermediate to Final Product: Avoiding the Trap of Eli Lilly" (Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, 1998)
"Novel DNA Sequences and the Utility Requirement: The Human Genome Initiative" (Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, 1992)
"The New Use of Fair Use: Accessing Copyrighted Programs Through Reverse Engineering" (Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, 1993)
"Securing Broader Biotechnology Claims in Japan" (Biotechnology Law Report, 1996)

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Thomas Magnussen
CEO, Atomistix

Executive positions in companies operating internationally.
• Director of the Board of companies in Europe, North America and Asia.
• Entrepreneurial experience: Co-founder, CEO of 4 high-tech start-ups in Europe and USA.
• Lines of business experience: Nanotechnology, software, IT, chemistry, and biotechnology.
• Development and global commercialization of high-tech products, IPR and services.
• International sales and marketing in Europe, North America, Asia and the Pacific Region.
• Financial strategies: Funding, exits, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures.

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Kevin Maloney
President & Chief Executive Officer, 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). He has raised funds for numerous private equity placements and held NASD 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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Kevin Matthews
CEO, Oxonica

Kevin was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Oxonica in April 2001. He joined Oxonica from Rhodia Consumer Specialties Limited and previously held roles with Albright and Wilson UK Limited and ICI Chemicals & Polymers. He has a D Phil in organic chemistry. Kevin was appointed as a non-executive of Elementis plc in February 2005.

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Mark Mansour
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

Mark Mansour is a partner in Foley’s Washington D.C. office, where he is a member of the Pubic Affairs and International Practices, as well as the Food and Nanotechnology Industry Teams. His practice focuses on national and international food and drug regulation, as well as regulatory and public policy issues relating to nutrition, food additives, pharmaceuticals, agribusiness, biotechnology, "biopharming," nanotechnology, chemicals and other consumer products. Major multinational corporations and small companies alike seek his assistance not only in complying with U.S. and international regulatory requirements, but also in conceiving and implementing strategies for developing and marketing products in the U.S., Europe and in numerous other international markets. He is recognized as a pioneer in the development of strategies to open markets and address non-tariff barriers to trade affecting the international regulation of food, food additives and ingredients, dietary supplements, nutritional foods, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, nanotechnology and a variety of other consumer products. Mr. Mansour’s approach to client relations is to serve as a business advisor, rather than solely as a legal adviser. He strives to provide advice and counsel in a broader business context, rather than seek to solve a narrow legal issue in isolation.
Mr. Mansour has built a solid reputation nationally and internationally in the food, dietary supplement and biotechnology industries. He is active in a variety of international public policy matters governing the food and drug trade, advising multinational food and drug producers and trade associations, while working closely with congressional offices and U.S. government agencies on food and commodity trade matters. Mr. Mansour is a frequent speaker on a variety of regulatory and trade issues affecting the regulated consumer products industries and other emerging technologies. He has addressed regulators, public policy leaders and scientists in countries around the world, often participating in programs sponsored by leading U.S. agencies, including the Department of Agriculture and the Department of State. Prior to joining Foley, Mr. Mansour had been in private law practice with two leading international firms. From 1997 to 1998, he served as assistant general counsel and director of global regulatory affairs with the Kellogg Company, where he led the development and implementation of the company’s global regulatory strategy. He also was chairman of a multidisciplinary team that set policies and global strategies in the areas of health and nutrition claims, fortification, packaging, food safety, FDA compliance and removal of international regulatory and trade barriers.
Mr. Mansour earned his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1988). He earned his master’s degree in international politics (M.A., magna cum laude, 1983) from Harvard University and his bachelor’s degree in foreign service and international politics (B.S., cum laude, 1979) from Georgetown University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Mansour currently serves as a member of several biotechnology-related task forces, including the State Department International Economic Policy Task Force on Biotechnology and the Food Industry Codex Coalition. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Michigan, and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan.
Mr. Mansour is fluent in Arabic and French.

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Clifford McFarland
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, LITMUS Consulting, LLC

Over the last 25 years Mr. McFarland has been successfully involved in providing management consulting and senior level financial advisory services to entrepreneurial management teams.

Mr. McFarland’s active participation with client companies in successfully designing, structuring, and executing strategic financing plans for corporate growth has resulted in an ever-expanding active network of professional financial relationships with domestic and international institutional equity and debt capital sources, both private and public.
Mr. McFarland has a solid base of management advisory expertise  for high-growth, private and public entrepreneurial companies.

Mr. McFarland has been engaged as a Strategic Corporate Advisor at the senior management and board level to more than one hundred high growth companies (including several elected to the Inc. 500), in over 30 different industry classifications, with rapidly growing operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and the Pacific Rim.

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John Miller
Vice President of Business Development, Arrowhead Research

John Miller currently serves as Vice President of Business Development at Arrowhead Research.  In 2005, he formed NanoPolaris, a subsidiary of Arrowhead that has become Unidym.  He has written a number of published articles on legal and policy issues in nanotechnology, and is a Managing Editor of Nanotechnology Law & Business, a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal. He is also a co-author of The Handbook of Nanotechnology Business, Policy, and Intellectual Property Law (John Wiley, 2004). Mr. Miller is a member of the California bar and federal courts in the Northern District of California. He graduated Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School.

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William Moffitt
President and CEO, Nanosphere, Inc.

William Moffitt became president and CEO of Nanosphere, Inc. in July 2004. Prior to Nanosphere, Moffitt served as president and chief executive officer of point-of-care diagnostics manufacturer i-STAT Corp. At i-STAT, he led the development and commercialization from the company's early stage as an innovative developer, manufacturer and marketer of diagnostic products for point-of-care blood analysis, through its IPO in 1992, and its acquisition in 2003 by Abbott Laboratories, a global, broad-based health care company. Recognizing the market acceptance and potential of i-STAT's singular point-of-care blood diagnostic devises, Abbott Laboratories acquired the company in 2003 for $480 million (market valuation). Prior to i-STAT, Moffitt held increasingly responsible executive positions from 1973 through 1989 with Baxter Healthcare Corporation, a $7 billion manufacturer and distributor of health care products and American Hospital Supply Corporation, a $3.5 billion diversified manufacturer and distributor of health care products, which Baxter acquired in 1985. Moffitt holds a B.S. in Zoology from Duke University.

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Ed Moran
Director, Deloitte & Touche

Ed is Director of the Deloitte & Touche Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Group's Tri-State Product Innovation Practice. Ed also leads the TMT venture capital-backed company practice and is Director of the Deloitte & Touche New York Technology Fast 50 program. Prior to joining Deloitte & Touche, Ed was managing partner of a Manhattan law firm, where he served a number of technology and entertainment clients. Ed also CO-founded a multidisciplinary consultancy, and was a managing director of a Manhattan investment and advisory company. Ed speaks widely on the topics of business strategy, nanotechnology, and the financing of early stage technology companies, and is frequently quoted in the media in the areas of software, business continuity, nanotechnology and technology trends. Ed serves on the board of advisors of the NanoBusiness Alliance, the first industry association founded to advance the emerging business of nanotechnology and microsystems. Ed acquired his love of technology at New York City's Bronx High School of Science, holds a law degree from NY Law School (where he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of International and Comparative Law), and has an MBA from New York University.

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Julie Muraco
Senior Managing Director, The NASDAW Stock Market

Julie C. Muraco, Senior Managing Director, The NASDAQ Stock Market oversees strategy and client relations with corporate advisors, such as investment banks and financial sponsors, as they transition private companies to the public markets.  She has been with the NASDAQ Stock Market since February, 2004.

Ms. Muraco spent more than 20 years on Wall Street as a Vice President with J.P. Morgan’s Cash Markets Division, based in New York, and as a Managing Director in the Capital Markets Division of Smith Barney, based in Chicago and earlier, in  Cleveland.  She has extensive experience with institutional investment firms and advisors throughout the U.S., Canada and Asia, and has been involved with public company investments as a registered advisor since 1980.

Ms. Muraco spent 2 years as Vice President, Investor Relations, for Archstone-Smith, a publicly traded REIT specializing in luxury high-rise apartments. 

She serves on the Board of Directors of Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C., the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing participation in the arts.

Ms. Muraco holds a B.A. in Finance from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.  She resides in New York City.

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Sean Murdock
Executive Director, NanoBusiness Alliance

Prior to becoming the Executive Director of the NanoBusiness Alliance, he was the Executive Director and a founding board member of AtomWorks, an initiative formed to foster nanotechnology in Illinois and more broadly throughout the Midwest.
Sean has established himself as a leading thinker in the areas of nanotechnology commercialization and economic development. He has delivered keynote speeches on the commercialization of nanotechnology at several nanotechnology conferences, and served as co-chair for the commercialization focused NanoCommerce 2003 conference and trade show. Sean has been quoted extensively on the subject in many leading publications including Fortune, The Economist, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Small Times.
Sean has been very active in nanotechnology trade and economic development issues. He helped to organize and execute the first Nanotechnology Trade Mission to Europe in conjunction with the NanoBusiness Alliance and the U.S. Department of Commerce. He has also been engaged with senior officials of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration on the potential impact of export control issues on nanotechnology development and commercialization.

Prior to founding AtomWorks and serving as the Executive Director of the NanoBusiness Alliance, Sean had more than 7 years experience in management consulting, most recently as Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. Sean served a variety of Fortune 500 companies, focusing primarily upon the industrial and chemicals sectors. While there, he developed some of the firm's early perspective on the business opportunities created by the nanotech revolution, publishing the first two internal documents on the subject.
Sean received his Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Engineering Management from Northwestern University. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame.

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Kent Murphy
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Luna Innovations

Dr. Murphy is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Luna Innovations Incorporated, a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ (LUNA). Dr. Murphy is a founding member of the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission (VRTAC), appointed by the Governor. He is also a member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) Board of Directors, NVTC TechPAC, the Greater Washington Board of Trade Virtual Incubator Action Committee, the National Research Council and the National Academies’ SBIR Steering Committee, and the Potomac Tech Task Force. Dr. Murphy is the Founder and President of The Accelerating Innovation Foundation, a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote and facilitate development of a technology innovation cluster in the mid-Atlantic region (www.acceleratinginnovation.org). In 2001, Dr. Murphy was named Small Business Innovation Research Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2004 was recognized by the Governor and Science Museum of Virginia as Virginia’s Outstanding Industrialist of the Year. He is a former tenured professor in Virginia Tech's Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and has more than 200 publications, 40 journal papers and 35 patents in the areas of telecommunications, sensing for oil and gas and aerospace, and diagnostics for pharmaceuticals and medical devices.  Dr. Murphy began work in fiber optics with ITT in 1978, and received multiple U.S. and international patents for fiber optic couplers. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. His bachelor's degree is in Engineering Science and Mechanics; also from Virginia Tech.

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Barry Park
Chief Operating Officer, Oxonica

Following his PhD, Barry spent three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering Unit at the University of Strathclyde working on development of novel biomaterials.

In 1977, Barry joined Raychem Ltd’s R&D division and was responsible for development of curable adhesives, piezoelectric devices, battery separators and polymeric electrolytes. From 1989 through 1990, he was seconded to Raychem’s Materials Division in the US prior to joining Materials Division in the UK as Technical Manager where he remained until 1999. From 1999 to 2000, Barry operated as a consultant and conducted business and market studies for Applied Market Information Ltd and also managed the nascent sunscreen project in Oxonica.

Barry joined Oxonica in 2001 and currently has responsibility for IP and regulatory issues as well as sourcing and supply of Oxonica’s sunscreen and fuel additive products. Barry is a co-author of 20 papers and is an inventor on over 30 patent applications filed in commercially important countries leading to over 120 patents granted worldwide.

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Warren Packard
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Warren Packard is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He currently serves on the Boards of 422 inc., Anagran, BinOptics, EoPlex, Imago Scientific Instruments, Media Lario, and Ooma. Mr. Packard also leads the firm's investments in Feedburner, Jaxtr, Microfabrica, Primet Precision Materials, TicketsNow, and YeePay.  Former investments include Chilisoft (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Digital Impact (acquired by Acxiom), Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves), Enviz (acquired by Keynote Systems), Fogdog Sports (acquired by GSI Commerce), Hypernex (acquired by Nova Measuring Instruments), NetMind (acquired by Puma Technology), and Xfire (acquired by Viacom). Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Packard co-founded Angara Database Systems, a main memory relational database company, which was acquired by Personify. Prior to co-founding Angara, he was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies. Before IVP, Mr. Packard was a Senior Principal Engineer in the Advanced Product Development Group at Baxter International. Mr. Packard is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering: Smart Product Design. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. E-mail: warren@dfj.com

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Joe Piche
CEO and Founder, Eikos

Joe has had an outstanding career in technology development, with more than 20 years experience developing high performance materials at Arthur D. Little, Foster Miller, Aspen Systems and Eikos. Joe is highly respected in the specialty materials industry and is a member of the Nanobusiness Alliance Advisory Board. He recently received the prestigious Richard T. Whitcomb Aerospace Technology Transfer award from NASA. He has a BS in Chemistry from WPI.

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Robert Pucciariello
CFA, CEO & Founder, ENS

Robert Pucciariello, CFA, CEO and Founder of ENS, brings financial rigor and practical business wisdom crucial to an early stage start-up. Mr. Pucciariello’s experience with small business and interest in starting companies is life-long, stemming from participation in a family enterprise and then a start-up company, CustomWare, that he founded at age 16. He deepened his understanding of business fundamentals at Williams College where he earned a BA in Classics and Music. He worked for three years as the Assistant Treasurer at Union Bank of Switzerland in New York where he refined his capital markets acumen. Mr. Pucciariello then had a 12 year career as Senior Vice President of trading at the Man Group, PLC augmenting a long-standing interest in business and financial risk assessment. While working at the Man Group, he became a member of the CFA Institute. His experience in commercial and private real estate, small business management, technical start-up and financial management have helped propel ENS forward. Shortly after raising its Series A round of financing, ENS launched its first products to address the challenging problems in chiral chemistry.

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Leon Radomsky
Senior Counsel, Foley & Lardner LLP

Leon Radomsky is senior counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm’s Chemical & Pharmaceutical and Electronics Practices. He is also a member of the Emerging Technologies, Energy and Nanotechnology Industry Teams. Mr. Radomsky focuses on strategic client counseling, IP due diligence and agreements, opinions and all phases of U.S. and international patent portfolio development, including patent application drafting, prosecution, appeals, reissues and reexaminations in the areas of nanotechnology, semiconductor devices and processing, materials science, and fuel cells.
Prior to joining Foley, Mr. Radomsky worked as a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined patent applications in semiconductor device processing and developed a broad knowledge of semiconductor device and liquid crystal display fabrication technologies. Prior to that, he was a doctoral research assistant and teaching assistant at Columbia University, where he gained expertise in semiconductor physics and testing, metallurgy and electronic materials processing.

Mr. Radomsky has authored numerous legal articles. While still in law school, he was awarded the Rossman Memorial Award as the author of an article in the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society that made the greatest contribution to the fields of patents, trademarks and copyrights in 1997-98 for "Can Process Claims That Include New and Unobvious Product Limitations Still Be Obvious After In re Ochiai?" In addition, Mr. Radomsky has also authored articles which have appeared in numerous publications, including Intellectual Property Today, Patent Strategy & Management, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Nanotechnology Law & Business and R&D Journal. The articles have covered diverse legal topics, including claim interpretation, an analysis of world wide semiconductor chip layout protection laws, a summary of the first Federal Circuit nanotechnology decision, and patent inventorship and ownership issues facing nanotechnology companies. Mr. Radomsky has also co-authored numerous articles on semiconductor physics.

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David E. Reisner, Ph.D.
President and CEO, Inframat Corp., and President and CEO, US Nanocorp, Inc.

Dr. David Reisner, a 1978 University Honors graduate from Wesleyan Univ, received his Ph.D. at MIT in 1983 in the field of chemical physics. In 1996, Reisner CO-founded both Inframat and US Nanocorp as a vehicle to develop nanostructured materials technology. He is President & CEO of these two nanotech companies as well as a parent holding company, The Nano Group, Inc. Since founding, Inframat and US Nanocorp have been funded nearly $20 MM in Government Contract R&D. Both Companies were recognized in both Y2002 and Y2003 for their fast revenue growth as Deloitte & Touche Connecticut Technology Fast50 Award recipients, the first time that two companies under the same management have won as well as being the first two pure-play nanotech company winners in the US Inframat was appointed a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and Reisner participated in two panel sessions at the 2004 Annual Meeting in Davos. He is also Chairman of US Nanocorp's commercialization spin off, Battery IntelligenceM Incorporated, which received its first angel investment this Summer. Reisner is very active on the Connecticut Venture Group Board of Directors.

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Dr. Scott Rickert
President, Nanofilm

Dr. Scott E. Rickert, Ph.D. is President of Nanofilm, one of the oldest, largest privately-held nanotechnology companies in the U.S.  He co-founded the Cleveland, Ohio-based company to commercialize self-assembled mono- and multi-layered polymers. First used to safeguard ophthalmic lenses and precision optics, the coatings now provide invisible, durable, resistant nano-protection in a variety of applications.  Dr. Rickert continues to set the company’s R&D vision, bringing a depth of research expertise from his academic experience as a Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He currently serves with a number of key industry groups, and lectures and writes on topics in the field. His company and writings had been featured in publications as diverse as The New York Times, NASA Nanotechnology Briefs and Wired Magazine. He recently received a technology entrepreneurship award from the Ohio Department of Development and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and took part in presentations at their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. 

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David Rosenberg
Founder & CEO Hycrete

David is the founder and CEO and has been running Hycrete, Inc. since 2002.  David holds a Bachelors degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from Columbia Business School.  Prior to attending Columbia Business School David was a financial analyst on Wall Street and an internationally competitive fencer representing the United States and the New York Athletic Club.  David is a member of the Young Alumni Counsel of Columbia Business School, a member of the NYC chapter of EO, and a member of the Friends of the Circular Economy for the China US Center for Sustainability.

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John Roy
Senior Research Analyst/Nanotechnology and Technology Strategist, WR Hambrecht + Co.

John M.A. Roy is Senior Research Analyst/Nanotechnology and Technology Strategist at WR Hambrecht + Co, an investment bank providing underwriting and financial advisory services to emerging growth companies, as well as equity research, sales and trading services to institutions and full-service brokerage for individuals.  WR Hambrecht + Co’s pioneering use of auctions for initial public offerings (OpenIPO®) and other equity and debt offerings has dramatically changed the financial services landscape for both investors and issuers.  Dr. Roy joined WRH+Co from Merrill Lynch where he focused on Nanotechnology and technology strategy.  Dr. Roy has also worked at JPMorgan and Neuron Data. Dr. Roy has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California and a MSEE from the University of Southern California.

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Aatish Salvi
Vice President, NanoBusiness Alliance

Aatish Salvi received a degree with Honors in Computer Science from Brown University. Since then he has been involved in two startup ventures. His first was with Turbine Entertainment Software where he joined as one of the first full-time employees of the company. Over the course of his career with Turbine he was promoted to Director of Production and oversaw multi-million dollar, multi-year projects with Microsoft Corp., Vivendi Universal and Tolkien Enterprises. He managed a team of over 100 employees including artists, engineers, designers, IT specialists, project managers and quality assurance engineers. Subsequently he joined Driveitaway, Inc. as its Sr. V.P. of Operations and was involved in securing over $20 million in funding and managing the engineering team, the project management group, the documentation team and the operations group. Currently he volunteers as the Vice President of the NanoBusiness Alliance and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the alliance and developing shaping strategies for companies in the nanotech sector.

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Jeannine Sargent
Executive Vice President, Metrology and Instrumentation Group, and Marketing and Business Development, Veeco

Jeannine Sargent joined Veeco in June, 2004 as SVP of Marketing and Business Development. In October of 2005 she was promoted to Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and was placed in charge of Veeco's Metrology and Instrumentation businesses.

Ms. Sargent has over 18 years of semiconductor industry experience ranging from Silicon Valley start-ups to mid-capitalization sized public companies. She was most recently CEO and President of Voyan Technology, a software company serving the semiconductor industry. Prior to that position Ms. Sargent held senior level marketing posts at Gasonics (now part of Novellus) and Tencor Instruments (now KLA-Tencor). Ms. Sargent started her career in engineering at Digital Equipment Corp.’s Advanced Semiconductor Development Group, and has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University.

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Greg Schmergel
Co-Founder, President & CEO Nantero

Greg Schmergel was most recently Senior Vice
President, Corporate Strategy for About, Inc., the 5th largest Web property. Previously he was President and CEO of ExpertCentral.com, Inc. Greg founded ExpertCentral in November 1998 to provide consumers and small businesses with access to thousands of experts to use as an online resource for important questions on a wide variety of topics. He also served as Chairman of the Board. ExpertCentral was acquired by About, the leading network of comprehensive vertical sites for users and marketers, in January of 2000 (now part of Primedia, NYSE: PRM). Prior to forming ExpertCentral.com, Greg served as Case Team Leader for Bain & Company where he led consultant teams working on critical strategy and implementation issues for Fortune 1000 companies. His earlier experience includes senior positions at TowerGroup, which he helped start, and the Ernst & Young Center for Information Technology & Strategy. Reuters acquired TowerGroup in November 1999. Greg also served as a Summer Associate at Booz*Allen & Hamilton, Inc. Greg stays active in supporting entrepreneurship at Harvard, MIT, and throughout Boston, including being a guest speaker at entrepreneurial classes and groups and a judge for the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the NanoBusiness Alliance and on the Board of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, the largest technology business association in the region. Greg graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Greg was selected as the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner in New England, in the emerging technology category.   The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program honors entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

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Charles Seeney
Co-Founder, President, NanoBioMagnetics

Charles Seeney is the co-founder and president of NanoBioMagnetics (NBMI). NanoBioMagnetics is the third technology company Seeney has directed.  XetaComp Technologies is a wholly-owned subsidiary of  NanoBioMagnetics.   Xeta Comp produces custom nano materials for commercial and research applications.   Seeney was previously the Founder and President of Nano Source technologies (NSTI). NSTI’s IP was acquired by DuPont. Seeney has been awarded 18 US Patents over his career with two applications currently pending. Many technical journals have published Seeney’s work and he has served as an expert witness in matters relating to polymer resin chemistry. As managing director of ViCorp Tech LLC, Seeney provides technology consulting services.

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Doug Smith
President, NanoPore

Douglas Smith has been President of NanoPore since 1994. Previously, he served as Director of the CENTER FOR MICRO-ENGINEERED CERAMICS and Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering at UNM.  Dr. Smith and NanoPore work on the use of nanoporous materials for thermal and electrical insulation and adsorption cooling.  He has 97 patents and is the lead inventor for both the NanoglassTM family of low dielectric constant films for use in semiconductors and the NanoCoolTM family of on-demand cooling.  His work has led to 3 commercial product lines; the NanoglassTM family of dielectrics, NanoThermTM vacuum thermal insulation, and NanoCoolTM adsorption cooling.  He has created three different nanotechnology-related joint ventures including Nanoglass LLC (with Honeywell), NanoCool LLC (with MeadWestvaco), and NanoPore Insulation LLC (with Sealed Air). 

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Joe Spencer
Lead Process Design Engineer, ALD NanoSolutions

Joe Spencer has been a key individual in the development of ALD NanoSolutions, Inc. As the Lead Process Design Engineer, Mr. Spencer is responsible for the design, construction and validation of all of ALD NanoSolutions particle coating equipment.  He is instrumental in investigating new coating applications, quality control methods, and new equipment designs.  Mr. Spencer also aides in consulting with new customers concerning applications and performance enhancements enabled by coating their materials.  Prior to joining ALD NanoSolutions, Joe completed his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado.  His research of ALD on particles at the University of Colorado earned Joe a scholarship from the ARCS Foundation. This research led the way for scale up of the ALD on particles process.

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Peter Stewart
Attorney IP Law, Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP

Mr. Stewart joined the Firm's Corporate Department in 2003.  He has broad experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and intellectual property law.  He has managed transactions for public and private companies involved in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, venture capital and other financings, strategic alliances, joint ventures, spin-offs, technology licenses, loan agreements and asset sales.  Mr. Stewart also advises clients regarding general corporate and securities law.

Before joining Curtis, Mr. Stewart served as Senior Policy Counsel and advisor to the successful election campaign of Steve Westly, the former State Controller of California. Prior to that, he served as general counsel with Work.com LLC and TargetFirst, Inc., both in Silicon Valley.

Mr. Stewart is admitted to practice in the states of New York, California and Massachusetts.

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Johannes M.C. (Hans) Stork
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Texas Instruments

Dr. Stork is Senior Vice President, and Chief Technology Officer, of Texas Instruments. As Director of the Silicon Technology Development organization, he is responsible for ensuring that process technology provides a competitive advantage for TI’s products.  He joined Texas Instruments in September 2001, as Vice President and Director of Silicon Technology Research.

Prior to joining Texas Instruments, Dr. Stork was Director of the Internet Systems and Storage Lab at HP Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California from 1999 until 2001. Upon joining Hewlett-Packard in 1994, Dr. Stork held the position of Director of the ULSI Research Lab between 1995 and 1999. 

Dr. Stork started his professional career in 1982 at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, researching advanced bipolar technology and circuits.  His group explored and demonstrated SiGe HBTs, resulting in new speed records at device and circuit level. Hans became manager of the Bipolar Devices group and from 1992 to 1994, he assumed responsibility for the Exploratory Device and Technology programs at IBM Research. 

Hans was awarded two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards from IBM.  He has written or co-authored nearly 100 cited papers and holds eleven US patents.   He was elected IEEE Fellow in 1994 for his contributions to SiGe devices and technology. 

As a fellow member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, Hans has served as a member of the 1988 BCTM program committee, was on the VLSI Technology Symposium program committee from 1986 to 1992, and was publications/publicity chairman for the 1990-1992 Technology and Circuit Symposia, publicity (vice) chairman for the (1991) 1992 IEDM, and technical program committee member of the 1994 IEDM.  Hans was EDS editor of the Circuits and Devices magazine from 1993 to 1995, and was on the technical program committee of the Symposium on Low Power Electronics in 1995 and 1996.

Dr. Stork serves on the Board of Directors for International Sematech (ISMT) since 2002, and for the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) since 1999. Prior to that he was a member of the Executive Advisory Boards for both Sematech and the SRC from 1997-1999. He has been a member of the SIA Technology Strategy Committee since 1999.

In 2000-2001, he participated as a technical advisor to Government efforts on high performance computing benchmarks and the national security issues emerging from Internet computing, and has recently been elected a member of the advisory committee for the Emerging Technology Fund in Texas.

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Tim Tangredi
President & CEO, Dais Analytic

Timothy N. Tangredi, President, CEO.  Mr. Tangredi has been CEO of Dais and a member of its Board of Directors since 1998. Prior to that Mr. Tangredi’s background includes having worked for AT&T, and two high technology firms. Tangredi earned his BS from Siena College in Business Administration and his MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  He is a founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Aegis BioSciences, LLC. Tim has experience in creating foreign and domestic strategic alliances and licensing arrangements. Since becoming CEO Mr. Tangredi has acquired and sold technology strategic to Dais’s business. Mr. Tangredi has experience in raising private equity as well as taking a company from being privately held to being a public entity.

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Keith Thomas
President, Northern Nanotechnologies

Keith Thomas is President of Northern Nanotechnologies, a company focused on the development and manufacture of customized nanomaterials for coatings, catalysts, feedstock and additives.  Keith has extensive entrepreneurial and operational experience in global settings and has run a number of growth companies. Most recently he was CEO of Vector Innovations, which was successfully backed by several highly regarded venture capital firms.  Prior to that he was a director at Tandon Capital Associates, a New York based restructuring and venture investing firm, and in that capacity, he restructured companies in the US, Australia, and Brazil .  At Booz Allen & Hamilton he led a number of strategy and operational restructuring projects; and before that he was a corporate finance specialist at Citibank in the US, UK and Switzerland.  Keith Thomas holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MA in Economics and a BASc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

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Jim von Ehr
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Zyvex Corp.

Von Ehr is internationally recognized as a respected leader within the nanotechnology industry. His commitment to nanotechnology is evidenced by his personal contribution of $3.5 million to establish the University of Texas at Dallas NanoTech Institute. He has also endowed the James Von Ehr Distinguished Chair of Science and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas, held by Nobel Laureate Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid (2000 in Chemistry).

In the Spring of 2003, Von Ehr testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for Bill S.189, The 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act. He was then invited to the Oval Office to be present when President Bush signed the Bill into law on December 3, 2003. He is also an invited member of Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Von Ehr currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative, the NanoBusiness Alliance, and the Executive Committee of the Metroplex Technology Business Council. He sits on the Strategic Partners Council of Michigan State University’s Computer Science and Engineering Department, the University of Texas at Dallas’ Development Board, the University of Texas at Dallas’ Research Advisory Board, the Editorial Advisory board of R&D Magazine's MicroNano Newsletter, and the International Advisory Panel of the National University of Singapore Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative. He is also a member of the U.S. Senatorial Trust. He is a consulting professor at Nanjing University; and advisory professor at Fudan University; and guest professor of physics at Jilin University—all located in China.

Von Ehr has a M.S. in Mathematical Science from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University.

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Barry Weinbaum
President & Chief Executive Officer, NanoOpto Corp.

Barry Weinbaum assumed the role of CEO and President of NanoOpto Corporation in August 2001 after a 21-year career at Lucent Technologies and AT&T, where his most recent position (2000-2001) was as Vice President - Optical Long Haul Solutions (DWDM) - in the Optical Networking Group. At Lucent, with backgrounds in optics, enterprise communications, networking, wireless and voice processing, Mr. Weinbaum established a record of leading start-up, established and turnaround operations to market leadership in a variety of product and technology areas. Highlights include: Director of Lucent's Mergers and Acquisition team for the Optical Networking Group (1999-2000), General Manager: Wireless PBX enterprise business (1995-1999), General Manager: Voice Response (1991-1995), and pioneered the Computer Telephony business (1990-1991). Early in his career, Mr. Weinbaum was Bell Laboratories engineer and is the holder of 2 patents. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Union College in Schenectady, NY, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University. In recent years, Mr. Weinbaum has been a presenter at Supercomm, Comnet, Networld+Interop and CTIA Wireless. Recently, Mr. Weinbaum has been an invited speaker at many Nanotechnology and Optical Conferences including: NanoVentures 2002 and 2003, NanoBusiness Alliance - Spring 2002, the Nanotech Venture Fair, Opticon2002 and the New Jersey Technology Council Technology Fair.

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