John
Carson, John C. Carson is a co-founder of Irvine Sensors Corporation
and has served as a Senior Vice President since the Company's inception
in 1974 and a director since April 1982. He was elected Chief Technical
Officer in February 1997. Mr. Carson also serves as a director of MicroSensors,
Inc. (since October 1997). He has been awarded 15 patents for smart
sensors, 3D packaging and signal processing architectures, including
neural networks. Mr. Carson holds a B S. in Physics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Dwight
Duston Ph. D., Chairs the Scientific Advisory Board and is the Chief
Technology Officer of The Egg Factory, LLC. Dr. Duston has ten years
of experience as a creative innovator, scientist, and technologist as
a research physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. In addition,
he has over fifteen years of experience in technology assessment, and
management during his tenure as Assistant Deputy for Technology in the
Defense Department's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, where he
was responsible for managing more than $400M per year in research and
development. He has been responsible for catalyzing the transition of
more than 300 defense technologies into the commercial market. Dr. Duston
has served as an adjunct on advisory boards for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Business Week, Innotech, Inc., NASA, and the National Institutes for
Health. In addition, he is an adjunct fellow of the Center for Strategic
and International Studies in Washington DC, and Associate Editor of
the Journal of Technology Management.
Michael
Greenfield, Ph.D., is Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of
Safety and Mission Assurance, NASA Headquarters. Dr. Greenfield is responsible
for the safety, reliability, maintainability and quality assurance of
all NASA programs. He also served as Director, Quality Management (Payloads),
and Office of Safety and Mission Assurance. Dr. Greenfield has received
the Presidential Rank of Meritous Executive, NASA Outstanding Leadership
Medal, NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and Group Achievement Award
(shuttle return-to-flight resolution).
Robert
Z. Gussin, Ph.D., D.Sc., recently retired from Johnson & Johnson
where he was Corporate Vice President of Science & Technology. Dr. Gussin
was with Johnson & Johnson since 1974. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson,
Dr. Gussin was the Director of Cardio-Renal Therapeutics for Lederle.
His education includes a B.S. in Pharmacy and an M.S. in Pharmacology
from Duquesne University, and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University
of Michigan. Dr. Gussin received an honorary Doctor of Science Degree
from Duquesne University in May 1995. Dr. Gussin has authored a number
of scientific publications, as well as several chapters in academic
textbooks. In addition, Dr. Gussin is named as the inventor of two patents.
Louis
S. Lome is Staff Specialist for Electronic Warfare, Ballistic Missile
Defense Organization (BMDO). Previously Mr. Lome was Manager for Information
Technology for the BMDO. In addition, Mr. Lome worked for the Central
Intelligence Agency for 15 years and was the National Reconnaissance
Program Manger when he left. In 1995, Mr. Lome received the Award of
Excellence from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer.
Mr. Lome currently serves as a representative for the Advisory Group
on Electronic Devices, on the Global Surveillance and Communications
Panel, and on the DTAP Panels on Information Systems Technology and
Electronics.
B.
Vincent McKoy, Ph.D., is Professor of Chemistry, at the California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He serves as an advisor
to the Institute for Defense Analysis, Innotech, Inc., Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and as an advisor for Polaroid from 1993-1994 and Barnes
Engineering Company from 1981-1985. Dr. McKoy was a Yale University
Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, a Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received
the Governor-General's (of Canada) Medal for Academic Excellence in
1960. Dr. McKoy has written 300 journal articles and has made over
120 conference presentations.
J.
Thomas Walker was the founding President and Partner of the Cardinal
Development Capital Fund, a private venture capital fund which targeted
start up and early stage firms organized to commercialize new technologies.
Mr. Walker was an early stage and primary investor in Adria Laboratories,
Allnet Communications, Summa Four, Raster Technologies, Cardiovascular
Technologies, Keithly Instruments, Engineering Automation, Concord Development,
HDR Corporation, Yellow Springs Instruments, and many other successful
growth oriented technology firms. In addition, Mr. Walker has served
as a strategic advisor to such companies as Ryan International, Worthington
Industries, Micro Engineering, Chartwell Technologies, Gilbert Investment,
The Micro Center, and others. While working with Ryan International
Corporation Mr. Walker conceived unique air traffic flight controller
safety instruments which are in use today. He has personally developed
other unique products including one of the largest Web based applications,
and consumer products for the home entertainment industry.
Barry
H. Whalen, Ph.D., is a private consultant with the National Technology
Transfer Corp., BMDO commercialization programs. Dr. Whalen advises
small businesses on intellectual property issues, sources of technology,
sources of capital and on the definition and targeting of commercial
products. From 1992-1994, Dr. Whalen was the President and C.E.O. of
Conductus Inc. publicly traded company (NASDAQ: CDTS) specializing in
super conductive electronics. Dr. Whalen serves as Industrial Advisor
to Stanford University and the University of California. Dr. Whalen
also served on the IEEE Awards Committee for the President's Medal,
as Technical Advisor to the President's Blue Ribbon Panel on Defense
Procurement, know as the "Packard Commission", and on the National Research
Council's Board on Telecommunication and Computer Policy.
