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Dr. Orlando Auciello, Founding
Scientist
Dr. Orlando Auciello is a Senior Scientist in the Materials Science
Division at Argonne
National Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor at North
Carolina State University and the University
of Illinois-Chicago. He earned his MS and Ph.D. degrees from
the Institute "Balseiro" (University of Cuyo, Argentina)
and held various academic and industrial positions in Canada and
the U.S. before coming to Argonne. Dr. Auciello has contributed
extensively to the science and technology of plasma, ion beam
and laser interaction with solids, complex oxide thin films (e.g.,
ferroelectrics, high-k dielectrics and new CMOS gates), wide bandgap
thin films (GaN, AlN), and nanocrystalline diamond films for MEMS,
NEMS, and field emission devices. He has published about 350 papers
and numerous review articles and book chapters, in addition to
editing ten books and obtaining seven patents. He has received
several honors, including the 2003 R&D 100 Award for co-development
of the large-area plasma systems for the deposition of Ultrananocrystalline
diamond, the 2003 Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Award
for outstanding technical accomplishments in the general field
of science and technology of thin films, and a 2002 special recognition
from the Materials Research Society for outstanding contributions
to that society as a member of the Governing Board.
Dr. John Carlisle, Founding Scientist
and Chief Technical Officer
Dr. John Carlisle, Chief Technical Officer, co-founded ADT
in 2003 while he was a staff scientist in the Materials Science
Division at Argonne
National Laboratory (ANL). Carlisle is a recognized leader
in the world diamond community, and his work in recent years has
spanned the basic-applied-commercial continuum. While at ANL he
worked on a number of technology development projects connected
with the UNCD® thin
film technology he co-developed at ANL, including establishing
materials integration strategies relevant to the use of UNCD in
MEMS devices, the use of UNCD as a wear resistant low-friction
coating for mechanical pump seals, and the development of low-temperature
UNCD as a hermetic coating for a retinal prosthesis, all of this
work continuing in ADT. He is also a co-recipient of the prestigious
R&D 100 award in 2003 for the development of large-area plasma
systems for the deposition of UNCD. In the process of founding
ADT he developed a larger interest in the debate over the role
of scientists in the commercialization of technologies born of
their research, and the technology transfer plan developed for
ADT based on his efforts has been recognized by the Department
of Energy as a model for future tech transfer activities at national
labs. His recent basic research interests have focused on the
synthesis and characterization of nanostructured carbon materials,
including nanodiamond thin films, carbon nanotubes, and hybrids
of these materials. Previously he conducted seminal work in the
area of surface physics and synchrotron radiation characterization
of surface and thin film material systems.
Dr. Carlisle received BS degrees in both physics and mathematics,
with highest honors and academic distinction, from Texas A&M
University, as well as an MS degree in Physics from the same institution.
In 1993 he completed his Ph.D. in Physics from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Carlisle has published about
100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, given numerous invited lectures
at international conference, and has one issued patent and several
others under review.
Neil Kane, President
Mr. Kane is the former
Executive Director of the Illinois Technology Enterprise Center
at Argonne National Laboratory and Entrepreneur in Residence with
Illinois
Ventures, LLC. As EIR, Mr. Kane was interim CEO of several
of their portfolio companies. He has closed several rounds of
venture capital from various sources and has secured numerous
SBIR and government contracts and awards. As
a consultant he has evaluated the commercial potential of advanced
technologies for The University
of Chicago, Argonne
National Laboratory, the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Illinois
Institute of Technology.
Mr. Kane was named a
2007 Technology Pioneer by the World
Economic Forum.
Earlier he was Regional Business Development Manager for Microsoft
Corporation in Chicago. In this role he identified, negotiated
and closed a $25 million equity investment in an Illinois-based
software company. He spoke publicly as an evangelist for Microsoft
on dozens of occasions.
He began his business career at IBM where he held a series of
marketing and technical positions. In his last position, he was
a Business Consultant focused on furthering the technology penetration
of IBM products at several major accounts in the process and consumer
packaged goods industries. Before that, he was the IBM liaison
to Andersen Consulting (now Accenture)
and helped create the strategic business alliance between IBM
and Andersen Consulting that became the model for the industry.
In this capacity he earned membership into IBM’s Golden Circle.
He began his career as a manufacturing engineer in IBM’s San
Jose, California disk drive facility where he designed robotic
tooling.
Neil holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering
from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (high honors) and a Masters
of Business Administration (finance and policy studies) from The
University of
Chicago. He has attended graduate school in Australia and
attended a post-graduate international management program in Japan
on scholarship from JETRO.
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