Mr. Stadler was the former Executive Director of the Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) Center for Entrepreneurship and its Technology Incubator - Venture Creations. Prior to RIT he was the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Vanderbilt University Technology Company (VUTC) and Managing Partner of Vanderbil's Chancellor Fund. The Chancellor Fund is an early-stage, venture capital fund. The RIT & VUTC programs provide faculty inventors/entrepreneurs with "New Enterprise" development services. Between 2000 and 2003, the Chancellor Fund invested approximately $10M in 16 new start-ups, these portfolio companies have subsequently raised an additional $120M from other 3rd party investors, and the Fund's investment portfolio is presently valued by Vanderbilt at over $60M with four liquidity event s of $40M completed.
Prior to Vanderbilt and RIT, Mr. Stadler was the Founder, Chairman, CEO, and President of Competitive Technologies, Inc. (AmEx: CTT), a public company he founded in 1991. CTT is involved in the commercialization of Orphan Technologies' developed by corporations, universities and federal laboratories. Under his leadership, CTT was selected as one of the Top 50 fastest growing companies in Connecticut in both 1997 and 1998. Mr. Stadler has been involved in establishing and financing more than 60 university-affiliated companies and the negotiation of over 750 licenses and/or joint venture agreements in his thirty-five year business career. Mr. Stadler has also helped universities address their technology transfer needs/opportunities in his role as the Executive Vice President and COO of Research Corporation Technologies (the world's oldest and largest technology transfer organization). He is a Founder and Chairman of ConduIT Corporation, J International Partners (China), International Diagnostic & Treatment Centers, The Heart Institute of the Caribbean and Sage Capital. Mr. Stadler holds a B.S. in biology and chemistry and an M.S. in physics from John Carroll University. He is also a Registered Patent Agent.

Kenneth J. Reed, Ph.D., Vice- President & CTO

Kenneth Reed received a BSc degree in Chemistry (highest honors) from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Stanford University in 1975. Directly upon graduation, he joined the research laboratories of the Eastman Kodak Co. and shifted careers from computational quantum chemistry and spectroscopy to applied research and product development. His 30 year career at Kodak involved applied precipitation research for both novel and conventional silver halide crystals, and redox mechanisms related to their development. This led to 20 patents in such areas as direct band gap crystal detectors, novel epitaxial and laminar Nano-crystals, two electron reducing agents and novel heterocyclic adsorbates. This applications-focused research led to the introduction of nearly a dozen, high margin, photographic imaging products for the corporation. In addition, he established a syllabus and instructional program that led to the training of 1/3rd of the photographic scientists at Kodak. On two separate occasions, Dr. Reed led the U.S./French exploratory dispersion research efforts which produced Nano-thin imaging crystals and other commercial technologies. Just prior to retirement in 2005, work focused on developing patent and technical strategies for the generation and use of monodisperse organic nano-particles for OLED applications. This work resulted in three patent applications. In 2005 Dr. Reed was given the Eastman Kodak CTO Distinguished Inventors Award. He is a graduate of The Entrepreneurs Network's training program. Dr. Reed is a co-inventor of the Kodak technology and inventor of ten new patent disclosures/applications owned by Cerion.

Marketing and Sales

Michael P. Holahan has been involved in the transportation industry since 1980. He attended the University of Knoxville, Tennessee; dispatched for a small trucking company in Western New York; held various positions for the Comdata Corporation and EFS; he was Vice President, Sales for Travel Ports of America (truck stops) prior to accepting the position as Chief Executive Officer of the North America Truck Stop Network. Michael served on the Board of Directors of Truckload Carriers Association; the Professional Truck Driver Institute and Truck Buddy; founder and President of the White Stone Group, which provides consulting in sales and marketing.

W. Andrew Clawson

Richard Hailstone, PhD. Advisor (Nano Particle Precipitation)

Richard Hailstone received a BS degree in Chemistry from Northern Illinois University in 1970 and an MS in Physical Chemistry from Indiana University in 1972. Immediately after graduation he joined the Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Company. Through almost all of his 18 years with Kodak his research focus was on fundamental research in silver halide materials (those materials used for conventional photographic products). In 1990 he left Kodak and joined the faculty at the Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Initially, his research focus continued to be in silver halide materials. More recently his research has shifted towards the Nano-materials area. Specifically, he is exploring the use of semiconductor quantum dots in the fabrication of image displays, image capture devices, photonic crystals, and biological fluorophores. He is Co-Director of the NanoImaging Research Lab, which has electron and scanning probe microscopes that image at the Nano level. In addition, the Lab has facilities for the preparation of Nano-particles via aqueous precipitation, as well as equipment for the fabrication of prototype imaging devices. In 1996 he was awarded the Lieven Gevaert Medal for outstanding achievement in silver halide photoscience and in 1997 he was made a Fellow of IS&T (The Society for Imaging Science and Technology) for significant contributions to the progress of imaging science and engineering.

Andreas Langner, PhD. Advisor (Colloid Chemist)

Professor Langner received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from SUNY/Buffalo. He also received a Ph.D in polymer Science in 1988 followed by a Physics Post-Doctoral Fellowship the following year from that institution. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at RIT and an acknowledged expert in polymer and micellar/colloidal systems-subject matter on which he has published extensively.

Peter Bajorski, PhD. Advisor (Statistics and Quality Control)

Peter Bajorski, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Center for Quality and Applied Statistics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Prof. Bajorski holds a Ph.D. degree in mathematical statistics, a BS/MS in mathematics, and an M.Eng. in industrial engineering. Prior to joining RIT, he held positions at Cornell University, and was an Associate Statistician at the Engineering Research and Development Bureau, New York State Department of Transportation. Dr. Bajorski's statistical expertise is in regression techniques, multivariate analysis, design of experiments, and nonparametric methods. He is certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt and is familiar with the Lean Enterprise approach to process improvement. Dr. Bajorski has published 35 research papers in scientific journals and is President of the Rochester Chapter of the American Statistical Association.

Dr. Kotlarchyk received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently professor of Physics at RIT and is our expert on nano particle size and size frequency characterization using neutron and quasi inelastic dynamic light scattering.

Ali Ogut, PhD. Advisor (Diesel Engine Specialist)

Dr. Ali Ogut is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Environmental Energy Technologies, Inc., a Rochester, NY company and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. His expertise is in thermo-fluids, energy conservation, environmental engineering, and computational flow analysis. Dr. Ogut is the principal researcher on energy efficiency and environment in the ME Department. He has considerable funded-project experience. At the present time, he is the PI of two New York State Energy Research and Development Authority projects. He is the developer and patent holder of a novel diesel engine particulate trap and UV water disinfection systems funded by NYSERDA. Dr. Ogut was also the PI of a project from NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio (1990-1996). He spent two summers (1989 and 1990) as a NASA Fellow at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio with the Space Propulsion Technology Branch. He is an active member of ASME Fluids Engineering Division (FED). He currently serves as the senior member of FED and served as the Division Chair and the Conference Chair of the 2003 FED Summer Meeting, held jointly with the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is also a member of ASEE, SAE and AIChE professional organizations.

Ankur Aggarwal, Marketing Consultant

Richard DeMartino, Business Consultant

Richard DeMartino is an Assistant Professor of Management (Entrepreneurship) at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in Political Economy at the University of Virginia. Dr. DeMartino's professional and academic interests include the commercialization of radical innovation, new venture creation, and incubation programs. He serves as a venture coach at the Rochester Institute of Technology and is involved with various executive and academic business development programs. He has served as an advisor for a variety of technology based companies and programs. Dr. DeMartino is an active member of the Radical Innovation Research Program--a collaborative research effort including the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Babson College, and the Rochester Institute of Technology sponsored by the Industrial Research Institute--which explores how established firms seek to commercialize discontinuous innovations.

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