4th Annual NanoBusiness 2005 Speakers

Keith Blakely
Chief Executive Officer, NanoDynamics, Inc.

A leading manufacturer of superior nanomaterials. With more than 25 years of experience, Mr. Blakely's focus is on creating a world-class organization with cutting-edge technological competencies and an unwavering commitment to excellence in the development and commercial manufacture of revolutionary nanotechnology-based products. With a deep understanding of the advanced materials business and markets, Mr. Blakely's expertise spans the technology commercialization process, from idea generation through laboratory demonstration and process development, into the commercial marketplace. Mr. Blakely is a highly regarded entrepreneur who has led numerous advanced materials companies from the concept stage to demonstrated product capability, including organizations focused on advanced ceramics, thin-film coatings, nanopowders, composites, and fuel cell technologies. Mr. Blakely joined several partners in forming NanoDynamics in 2002, following a highly successful career at Advanced Refractory Technologies, Inc. (ART, Inc.), a manufacturer of high-performance materials that he founded in 1981, and was subsequently acquired by Tyco International in 2001. During his tenure, the organization became one of the most innovative organizations in advanced materials through the development and commercialization of numerous new products, and the Company's entrance into several domestic and international joint development agreements with Fortune 100 organizations. Additionally, under the leadership of Mr. Blakely, ART, Inc. funded programs at over 15 universities and National laboratories, licensed technologies to market leaders including Mitsubishi, General Motors, and N.V. Bekaert and acquired other technology-based organizations.

Victor H. Boyajian
Chair of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP's Venture Capital/Emerging Growth Company Group

Victor H. Boyajian, Chair of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP's Venture Capital/Emerging Growth Company Group, represents emerging growth and more established Fortune 500 companies in a broad array of transactions, including venture capital and other strategic matters while also devoting a considerable amount of his time working with nanotechnology companies on a national basis. Victor has been an early proponent of nanotechnology and recognizes the promise and impact this sector and its innovations have and will have on existing industries, society and the global economy. Victor takes an active role in working with his clients and particularly enjoys guiding emerging growth companies through the capital raising process, accessing capital and other relationships to accelerate growth and taking the time to help companies understand the strategic implications of any decisions. Mr. Boyajian's expertise includes nanotechnology and working with larger Fortune 500 corporations and universities to commercialize technology. Mr. Boyajian has been an active participant in nanotechnology-related events and is committed to elevating the understanding and promotion of nanotechnology. Mr. Boyajian has been named in The Best Lawyers in America 2005-2006, "Top Lawyers" - New Jersey Monthly and "Top Deal Makers" - NJ Business News. Mr. Boyajian received his BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Rochester and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Edward H. Braun
Chairman and CEO, Veeco Instruments Inc.

Edward H. Braun has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Veeco since January 1990, was President of Veeco from October 2000 to March 2003. Veeco provides solutions for nanoscale applications in the worldwide semiconductor, data storage, telecommunications/wireless and scientific research markets. Prior to 1990, Mr. Braun served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Veeco's predecessor. Mr. Braun joined the predecessor in 1966 and held numerous positions with the predecessor, including Director of Marketing, Director of Operations, and General Manager. Mr. Braun is a member of the boards of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, a trade association for suppliers to the semiconductor industry ("SEMI"), of which he was Chairman of the Board in 1993, International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA), and Cymer, Inc., a supplier of excimer laser light sources, as used in deep ultraviolet photolithography systems.

Darrell Brookstein
Managing Director, The Nanotech Company, LLC and www.nanotechnology.com

Mr. Brookstein founded The Nanotech Company with noted bio-nanoscientist, Erkki Ruoslahti, MD, PhD, and started building the key business "serving the Nanotech World" and this vital, exciting, emerging industry. The firm is growing rapidly on the shoulders of its renowned Scientific Advisory Board, portfolio of significant nano-oriented domain names (including nanotechnology.com), free, weekly, e-digest of noteworthy Nanotech news, and Mr. Brookstein's own book, Nanotech Fortunes: How They'll Be Made and Lost in the Coming Boom; Winning Strategies for Investing $5,000 to $5 Million. Mr. Brookstein has been an investment banking and venture capital executive. His financial services and investing careers span more than 30 years. He has invested hundreds of millions of dollars for himself and his clients in promising and boom/bust style industries, including, biotech, oil and gas, the internet, and mining. Through his extensive career, he has owned and operated investment banking, venture capital, private equity, futures trading, Registered Investment Advisor, financial pr, and investor relations firms. He and his firms have been founding investors and helped establish several dozen public companies, across a broad range of industries, from earliest stages, to stock exchange listing; including: Emagin (OLED technology), Pennaco Energy, Ultra Petroleum, On2.com (video compression technology), and several significant mining companies. Mr. Brookstein holds a BA from Duke University.

Ed Cabrera
Managing Director of Investment Banking, J Giordano Securities Group

Ed Cabrera is the Managing Director of Investment Banking for J. Giordano Securities. Mr. Cabrera has been an equity analyst and strategist for over 17 years having worked for several investment banks such as Raymond James & Associates where he was a special situations analyst and Rotan Mosle/PaineWebber where he was an industry analyst covering environmental services companies. He also worked with Eppler, Guerrin & Turner/Principal Group as a technology analyst and James Capel/HSBC as a Mexico equity analyst. In 1991, Ed joined Merrill Lynch as Head of Latin America Fundamental Equity Research where he built the top ranked research operation for Latin American stock markets. He hired over 12 equity analysts covering stocks in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru. Ed was cited and ranked by Institutional Investor, Greenwich Survey and Latin Finance magazine for his individual work on the telecommunications industry. In 1995, Mr. Cabrera was named the Chief Latin America Strategist for Merrill Lynch where he was the top-ranked regional strategist for 5 years until he left the field in 2001. Mr. Cabrera has an extensive educational background. He received his Bachelor of Science from University of Florida in Engineering where he graduated with Honors. After undergraduate school, General Electric hired Ed where he worked in the design laboratory for the Armament Division. Mr. Cabrera took a leave of absence from General Electric and graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Business with an MBA in 1987. In addition to his college degrees, Ed has received the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and has taught finance at the Institute of Finance. Ed has been often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and New York Times for his views.

Vincent Caprio
Event Director and President of the CT NanoBusiness Alliance

Mr. Caprio is the Event Director of NanoBusiness 2005 and President of the CT NanoBusiness Alliance. A 20-year trade show and conference industry veteran with an impressive track record of launching events focusing on emerging technology markets, Mr. Caprio joined Penton in 2002 to steer the highly successful launch of NanoBusiness, as well as The Emerging Technologies Conference in association with MIT's Technology Review Magazine.

Prior to joining Penton, Mr. Caprio was event director for Red Herring Conferences, producing the company's Venture Market conferences and Annual Summit. Mr. Caprio was also honored with two Pathfinder awards for launching the New York Restaurant Food Service Show. In 1994 while with Norwalk-based Reed Exhibitions, Mr. Caprio was named Sales Executive of the Year. Mr. Caprio graduated from Villanova University in 1979 with a B.S. in Accounting and completed an MBA from Northeastern University in 1986.

D. Michael Connolly, Ph.D.
Founder, President and CEO, Integrated Nano-Technologies

Michael Connolly, Ph.D. is the founder, President and CEO of Integrated Nano-Technolgies, a Nano-scale research and development company. He has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Northwestern University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. After completing his JD at Cornell University, he practiced patent law at Nixon Peabody, LLP. As an attorney, he played a significant role in developing the licensing strategy for a major genomics company, as well as patenting, protecting and licensing technologies for several other companies and universities.

Steve Crosby
President and Publisher, Small Times Media

Steve Crosby directed the news coverage at Small Times for two years before he was promoted to president and publisher in March 2003. He is frequently quoted as a small tech source for mainstream media and serves as a speaker and moderator at nanotechnology conferences across the US, and in Europe and Asia. Steve was the executive editor of the Lansing (MI) State Journal from 1995 until joining Small Times in April 2001. Prior to that, he was the top news executive at daily newspapers in Lafayette, IN, and Wausau, WI.

JoAnne Feeney, PhD
Vice President, Punk, Ziegel & Company

Dr. Feeney covers Nanotechnology/Nanoelectronics in the Equity Research group at Punk, Ziegel & Company. Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Feeney served as Senior Business Strategist for Albany NanoTech, a $1.0 billion facility for nanoelectronics innovation at the University at Albany (State University of New York). Using insights from over ten years' experience in the economics of technology and financial markets, Dr. Feeney facilitated partnerships for technology and product development with both established and emerging nanoelectronics firms. She provided expertise on commercialization strategy, paying particular attention to market opportunities, IP valuation, pricing and product development, trade and financial markets, and technology and market risk. She also served as program chair for the 2003 Albany Symposium on the Global Business of Semiconductors and Nanotechnology, where she brought together leaders from the semiconductor industry, equipment suppliers, and nanomaterial innovators to present emerging business strategies for nanoelectronics to an international audience. She holds an M.A and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester and held previous faculty positions at the University at Albany, the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Steven Fischman
Partner, Scully, Scott, Murphy and Presser

Steven Fischman received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1984 and his J.D in 1992 from New York Law School. He was admitted to the N.Y. State Bar in 1993 and is registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Fischman was a Test Engineer for Grumman Aircraft Systems, Inc. from 1985-1989 where he developed software and designed interfaces for testing avionics and communications equipment. He is a member of the National Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi, 1982 and the Electrical Engineering Honor Society, Eta Kappa Nu, 1983. Mr. Fischman is experienced in all aspects of patent prosecution, particularly in the area of electrical/electronic engineering arts including semiconductors and nanotechnology, computers, communications, software, e-commerce and business method patents.

Peter Hebert
CEO, Lux Research

Peter is co-founder and CEO of Lux Research. Peter is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Lux Capital, focusing on investments in nanotechnology. Prior to the formation of Lux Capital, he worked in Lehman Brothers' Equity Research group. Peter has experience at American Express International in London, DMB&B advertising agency and Sports Illustrated. He was a Chancellor's Scholar and graduated cum laude from Syracuse University's Newhouse School with a BS in Communications. Peter was the Founding President of Syracuse's first venture organization, Future Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs. He has been an invited guest lecturer and panelist at MIT, Yale, Columbia and the National Science Foundation.

Jim Hurd
Director, NanoScience Exchange

Jim Hurd is the Director of the NanoScience Exchange, an Entrepreneurial Think and Do Tank established in May 2002 based in San Francisco, CA. Jim also is the founder of Molecular Business, a consulting firm. He has been consulting with molecular (small tech) businesses since October of 2001. Prior to founding Molecular Business, Jim ran Hurd & Associates, providing business development for technology companies since 1999. From 1992 to 1999, Jim was President of Up Software, Inc, a leading career development and skills educational software company. From 1985 to 1992, Jim was Founder of Hurd Design, a nationally award winning graphic design firm that created corporate identities, capability brochures and corporate newsletters. Jim attended George Washington University, graduating in 1981.

Douglas W. Jamison
Vice President, Harris & Harris Group, Inc.

Doug Jamison is Vice President/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. Mr. Jamison will be named President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer effective January 1, 2005. He joined the Company in September of 2002 from 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 member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Chlorogen, Inc., in which the Company has an investment. His professional societies include the Association of University Technology Managers, for which he serves on its Survey Statistics and Metrics Committee, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is a member of the Advisory Board, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Nanotechnology Venture Forum, of the Advisory Board, Converging Technology Bar Association and of the Advisory Board, Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal.

Cynthia Kuper
Chief Technology Officer
Micromem Technologies Inc.

Dr. Kuper serves as Chief Technology Officer of Micromem Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MMTIF) ("Micromem"), a publicly-held company engaged in the research and development of Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM). As Chief Technology Officer, Kuper maintains responsibility over Micromem'™s relationships with prospective licensees and adopters of its MRAM technology, guides the technological development process and advises the company'™s Board of Directors and senior management on technology and industry-related issues.
Prior to joining Toronto-based Micromem, Kuper established the first nanotechnology materials business in the Philadelphia region - Versilant Nanotechnologies ("Versilant"). As president and chief of research, Kuper developed enabling technologies for the commercial use of carbon nanotubes and commercialization of nano-scale related technologies. While at Versilant, Kuper won a NASA contract to produce high strength composite materials. For her work, Versilant was nominated for an innovation award from the space agency.
A native of Philadelphia, Kuper received her B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Temple University, where she has been an active alumnus as an Entrepreneur In Residence, IT Fellow and adjunct professor. She co-teaches a first-of-its-kind course in Emerging Technologies at the Fox School of Business. She furthered her studies through a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratories of Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley at Rice University in Houston, where she worked through a cooperative agreement with NASA at the Johnson Space Center.
Dr. Kuper volunteers time speaking to raise awareness of nanotechnology to large corporations and public bodies such as Dow Corning, Wyle Labs, Army Research Labs, the Department of Defense and members of Congress, including testifying before the United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities as a subject expert in nanotechnology. Kuper and her work have been featured in Newsweek, Fortune, Wall Street Reporter and the German venture magazine, Borseonline. In addition, she was named one of the "76 Smartest Philadelphians" by Philadelphia Magazine as well as one of the 2001 Philadelphia Business Journal'™s prestigious "40 under 40"dynamic up and coming leaders in Greater Philadelphia.

Dr. Kuper also serves as an advisor on numerous boards of academic and industrial bodies.

Stephen B. Maebius
Partner, Foley & Lardner

Stephen B. Maebius is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Foley & Lardner, where he is the leader of the Nanotechnology Industry Team. Mr. Maebius serves on the advisory board of the NanoBusiness Alliance, and he is an editor-in-chief of the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal. 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 US 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 (BS 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 US Supreme Court, and before the US Patent and Trademark Office.

F. Mark Modzelewski
Co-Founder, NanoBusiness Alliance and Managing Director, Lux Research

F. Mark Modzelewski is the Founder and Executive Director of the world's fastest growing technology association - The NanoBusiness Alliance. The Alliance is the first industry association founded to advance the emerging trillion dollar business of nanotechnology. At the NanoBusiness Alliance, Mark serves as the day-to-day manager of Alliance strategy, programs, finance, and development. In addition, he is the lead spokesperson for the Alliance and oversees the organization's Angel Network, public policy efforts and Hubs Initiative. Under Mark's leadership the Alliance has grown to over 250 members ranging from GE to Lockheed Martin to JP Morgan to leading start-ups, investors, universities and service firms. Numerous government leaders noted that the Alliance was instrumental to the recent development and passage of the US House of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act. The NanoBusiness News, the Alliance's bi-weekly newsletter, is the most read publication in the nanotech field. The Alliance's annual conference NanoBusiness 2003 was the most attended event of its kind. Mark is a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to President Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He is among the most well known figures in the nanotech field and was recently recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of nanotech's top 5 "powerbrokers" and received a Small Times Best of Small Tech Awards. He is a finalist for this year's Fortune Magazine "40 Under 40." Mark has testified before the US Senate on nanotechnology funding, investment, technology transfer and global competition. He also developed partnerships for the Alliance with Deloitte & Touche, Penton Media, Nissho Iwai and others to develop reports, events, mentor start-ups, and enter new markets. He also organized affiliate organizations and regional nanobusiness "hubs" in the EU, Canada, Israel, and a dozen US states. In addition to leading to the NbA, Mark is the acting CEO of the NanoBusiness Development Group (NbDG), a consulting and business services firm that helps clients understand the multi-trillion dollar opportunity presented by the emerging nanotechnology sector; working with them to plan and position themselves to become leaders in the field through unmatched research, analysis, relationship building, and guidance. Mark also recently joined Lux Capital as an advisor.

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.

Matthew M. Nordan
Vice President of Research, Lux Research

Matthew Nordan heads Lux's research organization. He leads a team of analysts who advise corporations, startups, financial institutions, and governments on the impact of nanotechnology and related emerging technologies.

Matthew joins Lux with seven years of experience in analyzing emerging technology at Forrester Research, where he held a variety of senior management positions. Most recently, Matthew headed Forrester's North American project consulting line of business. Earlier, Matthew spent four years based in the Netherlands growing Forrester's operations in Europe, where he launched and led research practices in retail, mobile commerce, and telecommunications. Matthew also built Forrester's European consulting line of business and partnered with trade publishers in three countries to measure corporate technology pending on the continent.

Matthew has been invited by news outlets including CNN and CNBC to comment on emerging technology markets and has been widely cited in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. He has delivered advice to clients and presented at conferences in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Beyond the corporate sphere, Matthew has participated in developing public-sector technology strategy for organizations including the World Economic Forum, the European IT Observatory, and the Dutch transportation ministry.

Matthew is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where he conducted cognitive neuroscience research on the neural pathways mediating emotion and memory.

Chinh H. Pham
Of Counsel, Greenberg Traurig LLP

Chinh H. Pham is of counsel in the Intellectual Property Department based in Greenberg Traurig's Boston office. He is a registered patent attorney with particular experience in the strategic creation, implementation, and protection of intellectual property rights for high technology and life science clients. Chinh represents and counsels technology clients, startups as well as established companies, including those in the areas of biomedical devices, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, electromechanical arts, telecommunications, speech recognition, and data mining. In his practice, Chinh advises clients on the creation and development of patent portfolios through the preparation and filing of patent applications, as well as the acquisition and exploitation of intellectual property rights through licensing and strategic collaboration agreements. His practice also involves the evaluation of both client and competitor portfolios, and preparation of validity, non-infringement, and freedom-to-operate opinions. Previously, Chinh was a research scientist for several biotechnology companies primarily focusing on gene transformation and the establishment of systems for obtaining transgenic plants.

Dr. Eli Pinthus
Nutralease

Dr. Eli Pinthus - Founded Adumim Food Ingredients Ltd. In 1977, to commercialize his research on the production of food emulsifiers while a graduate student at the Casali Institute of the Hebrew University. Dr. Pinthus, motivated by strong entrepreneur vision, took the results of his lab work all the way through from an idea to a full size plant. He has managed all phases of entrepreneurship, product development, manufacture and marketing. As a result, he has developed comprehensive management skills and industrial expertise.

In 1995 Dr. Pinthus completed his Ph.D. study in food science and resigned from his position as managing director. He spent one year as a research fellow in UC Davis. During which period, in addition to his research work, Dr. Pinthus carefully examined new developments in the field of nutraceuticals. Dr. Pinthus returned to Adumim to take up a new position as director of business development, in addition to his position as Chairman of the Board.

In  2003, Adumim Food Ingredients took majority shares in  Nutralease Ltd. Since then, Dr. Pinthus is active as director of marketing in Nutralease, and is Adumim delegate in Nutralease board.

During his short academic career, Dr. Pinthus has published 12 refereed articles and participated as lecturer in several scientific events. In addition, Dr. Pinthus is co-inventor of 7 patents.

Leon Radomsky
Associate, Foley & Lardner

Leon Radomsky is an associate in the Washington, DC office of Foley & Lardner. A member of the firm's Intellectual Property Department (Chemical & Pharmaceutical and Electronics Practice Groups), Mr. Radomsky focuses on client counseling and patent procurement in the areas of semiconductor devices and processing, materials science, and nanotechnology. Prior to joining Foley & Lardner, Mr. Radomsky worked as a patent examiner in the 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. As a doctoral research assistant and teaching assistant at Columbia University, Mr. Radomsky gained expertise in semiconductor physics and testing, metallurgy and electronic materials processing. Mr. Radomsky is also active in industry organizations. He is a frequent speaker at nanotechnology conferences on intellectual property issues facing nanotechnology startup companies. Mr. Radomsky is an active member of US Patent & Trademark Office semiconductor and nanotechnology partnerships and was a speaker at several semiconductor partnership meetings. Mr. Radomsky graduated from Columbia University (BS, metallurgical engineering, 1991; MS, materials science, 1993) and George Mason University School of Law (JD, magna cum laude, 1999), where he was a member of the George Mason University Law Review. He was awarded a fellowship for academic excellence, the West Publishing Company "Hornbook" Award and was selected as a finalist for the Murphy Prize for highest academic excellence. In addition, Mr. Radomsky was a National Finalist in the Giles S. Rich Moot Court Competition in Intellectual Property and was also the winner of the Midwestern region's Best Appellant's Brief. Mr. Radomsky has been admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia, and before the US Patent and Trademark Office.

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.

Scott E. Rickert, Ph.D.
President, Nanofilm

Nanofilm is one of the oldest and largest privately held nanotechnology companies in the US, which Scott Rickert co-founded 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. Dr. Rickert is a founding member of the NanoBusiness Alliance and member of the Advisory Board. He also currently serves with a number of key industry groups and lectures and writes on topics in the field.

Daniel Ritter
Partner, Preston Gates Ellis LLP

Daniel Ritter's practice focuses on policy and legislative affairs for a broad range of interests, including in particular nonprofit charitable organizations, media and nanotechnology businesses. Mr. Ritter has extensive experience with the tax rules governing policy activities by the nonprofit sector. Mr. Ritter coordinates policy advocacy campaigns, advocates policy positions with federal legislators and administrative agencies; prepares legal and strategic policy analysis and develops legislation and testimony for Congressional hearings. Daniel Ritter served as Counsel to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts & Humanities under Committee Chairman Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI). Immediately before joining Preston Gates, Daniel founded and served as Executive Director of the Center for Arts and Culture, a grant making institution concerned with the relationship of the nonprofit and for-profit cultural sectors to American public policy. In 1996, he was a European Union Fellow on nonprofit and cultural policy issues.

John Roy
Technology Strategist, Merrill Lynch

After spending 18 years in technology, John transitioned to technology equity research in January of 2000. John, 44, has experience in software development, hardware development, software sales, infrastructure management and technology business development. John has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California and an MSEE from the University of Southern California. As a customer of technology companies for many years, John brings a practitioner's view to the table. Recently John has begun studying the emerging Nanotechnology sector. John is part of Steve Milunovich's IT Hardware and Technology Strategy teams.

Ted Sabety
Principal, Sabety+associates, pllc

Ted Sabety founded Sabety +associates, a law and consulting firm in the technology and electronic media fields. His practice ranges from advising technology companies regarding the development, exploitation, and protection of their intellectual property to advising electronic media industry clients on strategic issues regarding digital content distribution. Ted is an accomplished speaker on the roles of law, technology and business strategy, and is an adjunct faculty member of the Columbia Business School. Prior to launching Sabety +associates, Ted was part of the Corporate Group, Internet, Media and Technology Law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Ted received his JD from Columbia Law School. Ted has been involved in technology and electronic media since he joined Hewlett-Packard as an Integrated Circuit Design Engineer after receiving a BS in Physics from Yale University. He was also Chief Engineer for the DARPA funded Non-Von Supercomputer project at Columbia University where he received his MS in Computer Science. While an undergraduate at Yale, Mr. Sabety built new kinds of microstructures that provided ways of measuring quantum mechanical effects of the crystal lattice on electric current through the device. Ted Sabety speaks frequently on the issues surrounding technology commercialization , IP protection, and licensing. He is an adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School, and is an active member of the IEEE, NYSIA, NYNMA, and the Copyright Society of America.

Steve Waite

A eighteen-year veteran of Wall Street, Steve began his career as an economist with Morgan Stanley & Co. He has worked as an international economic consultant with The Capital Group, a Los-Angeles-based investment management company. Steve was Senior International Economist with Merrill Lynch in both New York and London. Prior to co-founding Trilogy Advisors, Steve was a Director and Portfolio Manager at Credit Suisse Asset Management/BEA Associates in New York. He was responsible for the management of European equities and several global equity products including a telecommunications, technology, and biotechnology fund. Steve is the co-author of the book, "Boomernomics." He has written extensively on global economic and financial market issues. His work has been published in several books and professional journals and has been cited in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Worth. Steve is adjunct professor of finance at Quinnipiac University and is a member of the Santa Fe Institute Business Network. He has a Masters degree in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University. Steve was co-founder and Managing Director of Trilogy Advisors, LLC, a multibillion-dollar global investment management firm based in New York City. He is founder and CEO of Broadband Records LLC, a Connecticut-based record and music publishing company, and guitarist/composer/co-producer for the band Sweetbird.

Barry Weinbaum
CEO and President, NanoOpto Corporation

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.

Michael L. Weiner
CEO, Biophan Technologies, Inc.

Michael L. Weiner began his career at Xerox Corporation in 1975, where he served in a variety of capacities in sales and marketing, including manager of software market expansion and manager of sales compensation planning. In 1982, he received the President's Award, the top honor at Xerox for an invention benefiting a major product line. In 1985, Weiner founded Microlytics, a Xerox spin-off company which developed technology from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center into a suite of products, including the award winning Word Finder thesaurus, with licenses out to over 150 companies, including Apple, Microsoft, and Sony. Microlytics was acquired by a merger with a public company in 1990, which Weiner then headed up through 1993. In January, 1993 Weiner co-founded TextWise, a company developing natural language search technologies for the intelligence community. In 1995, Weiner co-founded and served as CEO of Manning & Napier Information Services (MNIS), a Rochester-based company providing patent analytics, prior art searches, and other services, for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and many large corporations, and which subsequently acquired TextWise. He held this position until January of 1999. MNIS remains private, and has generated several spin-off companies (Talavara and IP.COM). TextWise won the Department of Commerce Tibbet's Award for SBIR research in 1998.
In February, 1999, Weiner founded Technology Innovations, LLC, to develop intellectual property assets. In August, 2000, Technology Innovations created a subsidiary, Biomed Solutions, LLC, to pursue biomedical and nanotechnology opportunities, investing in embryonic-to-seed stage innovations which generate new ventures and/or licenses. These companies are holding companies for intellectual property assets and equities in other ventures.
Weiner has been CEO of Biophan Technologies, Inc. since co-founding the company in December, 2000, with Wilson Greatbatch, P.E., the inventor of the first successful implantable cardiac pacemaker, which Greatbatch licensed to Medtronic in 1960. Biophan's primary mission is to develop and commercially exploit technologies for providing competitive advantage to biomedical device companies, including technology for enabling biomedical devices to be safe and compatible with MRI diagnostics. Biophan spun out of Biomed Solutions in December, 2000, through a merger with a public company, trading under the symbol BIPH. Biophan recently acquired a majority interest in TE-Bio, LLC, which is developing with NASA a patented biothermal battery for powering implantable devices based on thermal deltas in body heat, taking advantage of advances in nanomaterials.
Weiner serves on the Boards of Biophan, Biomed Solutions, LLC, Technology Innovations, LLC, Speech Compression Technologies, LP, Nanoset, LLC, MYOTECH, LLC, TE-Bio, LLC, and OncoVista, Inc. These companies, all founded or co-founded by Weiner, hold over 200 patents pending, issued, allowed, and/or licensed in (Biophan alone currently has 114).
Weiner has been a member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) since 1984, and is a member of IEEE, AAAS, AFIO, and the NY Inventor’s Club. Weiner believes that society can benefit by improving the methods by which innovation moves from idea to application and commercialization.