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February 25, 2008
ADT announces revolutionary family of diamond pump seals. Click here to see the full announcement.

February 4, 2008
DOE features ADT in a case study on Energy Efficient Technologies.

January 26, 2008
Mechanical seal performance improvement after UNCD is featured in the cover story, "Reliability Galore - Diamonds Are For Seal Faces" in the January 2008 issue of Maintenance Technology.

December 26, 2007
ADT Co-founder Orlando Auciello interviewed for CNN's Situation Room regarding UNCD's role as a potential base in a bioterrorism detection system.

December 20, 2007
"Are Diamonds a MEMS' Best Friend?" article featured in IEEE microwave magazine's December 2007 issue explains how UNCD is poised to play a powerful role in the future of RF MEMS.

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MANAGEMENT

Charles West, VP of Engineering
Charles F. (Charlie) West has been leading and developing product development of thin inorganic films for over 30 years. He has been directly responsible for the development of many vapor phase thin-film (primarily CVD) applications in the areas of electronic, bio-medical, optics, and wear and corrosion. Prior to joining ADT he was one of the founders of QuesTek Innovations, LLC, another award-winning high tech startup in the Chicago area. Charlie was the CVD Group leader and a Research Scientist at Northwestern University prior to starting QuesTek and a research scientist for 10 years at Battelle Columbus Laboratories in the Electronic and Optical Materials Group. Charlie has been working directly with prospective clients and helping them develop new products and processes throughout his career. He has also been personally responsible for enabling and transferring new and unique CVD processing to NASA, universities, national laboratories, and several industrial firms. 

Dr. Nicolaie Moldovan, MEMS Lead Scientist
Nicolaie ("Mike") Moldovan is a top micro-nanofabrication expert with 20+ years of experience in materials, process, and device integration. He joined ADT after being a research professor with Northwestern University where he developed diamond AFM probes, nanofountain probes for AFM nanolithography, and carbon nanotube devices. During 1998-2002, with Argonne National Laboratory, he conducted research in ultradeep x-ray lithography, x-ray microoptics, field emitters, and ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) microfabrication technologies. From 1983 to 1998 he developed electronic devices, micro-optics, and microfabrication technologies at the Institute for Electronic Components and the Institute of Microtechnology in Bucharest, Romania. As head of the Laboratory for Unconventional Microfabrication Technologies, he ran international projects in LIGA technology, silicon, germanium, metal, and glass micromachining for micromechanics and micro-optics.

Dr. Moldovan received his M.Sc. degree (1982) and his Ph.D. (1997) in Physics from the University of Bucharest, Romania. He completed two DAAD research stages in the Fraunhofer Institute for Solid State Technology Germany, where he specialized in anisotropic etching of silicon and germanium, and stress engineering in thin films and membranes. Among his achievements is listed a master equation-based atomic scale model able to reproduce the Si-KOH etching anisotropy diagram starting from atomic and lattice parameters. He has authored more than 100 scientific papers, five patents, and received an R&D 100 award.  

James Netzel, Director of Seals Engineering
James P. (Jim) Netzel has more than forty years of experience in the design and application of mechanical seals which includes twenty years of service as Chief Engineer at John Crane, Morton Grove, Illinois.  He has written and has published numerous technical papers that were published through the International Pump Symposium, STLE, ASME, BHRA, AISE, SAE, and various trade publications.  Jim has written chapters on seals, sealing systems for the Pump Handbook, The Centrifugal Pump Handbook and the Compressor Handbook.   

Jim received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1963 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He is a fellow of The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE).

Wayne Beth, Director of Manufacturing
Wayne A. Beth has over twenty five years of experience in the field of Thin Film Deposition Technology. He has been involved in all aspects of CVD and PVD processing from performing basic research to managing commercial coating facilities generating annual revenues of several million dollars. Wayne has established ISO certified Quality and Operating systems allowing consistent high quality products to be manufactured profitably. Industries serviced include aerospace, medical, automotive and tooling. He has been employed in senior engineering and management positions with industry leaders such as Air Products and Chemicals, Science Applications International Corporation and Chromalloy Research and Technology.

Wayne received his B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 1982 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been certified by General Electric’s Central Coatings Laboratory in man-rated aerospace coating analysis and received the Fansteel President’s Award for company leading cost savings.


BOARD MEMBERS

Bob Geras, Board Member
Bob Geras, President of LaSalle Investments, Incorporated, has been an active participant in the VC and angel community in Chicago for over 35 years.  Bob has extensive line operating experience as an entrepreneur, and he received the “Angel of the Year-2002” award by the Chicago Software Association.  Bob has been a featured panelist, lecturer, mentor and/or business plan judge for the Illinois Coalition, the University of Illinois, Kellogg School of Management, University of Chicago, Roosevelt University, DePaul University as well as in seminars sponsored by the Chicago Software Association, Garage.com, the Midwest Entrepreneurship Forum, and the Association for Corporate Growth. 

In 1986 he bought MEDX, Inc. a troubled Rolling Meadows, Illinois medical equipment company, and in five years turned it around and sold the company for 26 times his cost. Since 1989, he’s been a co-founder and the largest shareholder of publicly traded Merge Technologies (MRGE), the industry leader in eHealth connectivity products for medical imaging and other clinical information, helping to make the "electronic patient record" a reality.  He's also an investor in Exadigm, NexVu, and 20/20 Technologies. Bob is also a director and/or investor in VideoHomeTours, ShowingTime.com, Citizens Bank and Trust, and PowerQuest Corporation, a leading software developer and technology pioneer. In addition, he is an investor and/or advisor to Kettle Partners, Chicago Ventures, KB Partners, Kingsport Capital, Artesian Capital, and is a founding member and a Director of the Illinois Venture Capital Association.

John Regan, Board Member
John Regan is a Senior Director of Illinois Ventures, LLC.

Jeffrey Niew, Board Member
Jeffrey S. Niew is the Chief Operating Officer of Knowles Electronics. Mr. Niew joined Knowles in June 2000 and has been held various management positions among which he was responsible for the development and productization of the SiSonic MEMS based microphone. Prior to joining Knowles, he was the Business Development Manager for Littelfuse Incorporated, a global electronics manufacturer specializing in the consumer and automotive markets. In addition he held various engineering and marketing positions in the optoelectronics division of Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Niew has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dennis Roberson, Board Member
Dennis Roberson is Vice Provost, and Research Professor in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology. In this capacity, he has responsibility for IIT’s relationships with its various corporate partners. Professor Roberson is an active researcher in the wireless networking arena and is a co-founder of IIT’s Wireless Network and Communications Research Center (WiNCom). He also assists with IIT’s technology transfer efforts, the development of new research centers, and technology-based business ventures. He currently serves on the boards of several technology-based companies, including four in the telecommunications industry.

Prior to IIT, he was EVP and CTO at Motorola. Professor Roberson has an extensive corporate career including major business and technology responsibilities at IBM, DEC (now part of HP), AT&T, and NCR. He is and has been involved with a wide variety of Technology, Cultural, Educational and Youth organizations currently including the FCC - TAC (Technology Advisory Council), the National Advisory Board for the Boy Scouts of America, and the Board of FIRST Robotics. He is a frequent speaker at universities, technical workshops, and conferences around the globe.

Professor Roberson has BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Washington State University and a MSEE degree from Stanford.

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