Dr. Bill Beckenbaugh, Ph.D.
Chairman of Konarkas Scientific Advisory Council
Beckenbaugh brings to Konarka Technologies over 28 years of diverse, senior-level technical management of electronics manufacturing R&D, most recently with Sanmina-SCI and HADCO prior to their merger. Beckenbaugh previously served at Motorola as Vice President and Director of the Corporate Manufacturing Research Center (1987-1994) and Semiconductor Packaging R&D labs in the Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector (1994-99). From 1974 until 1985 he served as a Research Leader at Lucent Technologies' Engineering Research Center, Princeton, NJ.
Before joining Konarka Technologies, Beckenbaugh was Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Marketing Officer, Sanmina-SCI, reporting to the COO & President. Beckenbaugh provided technical and marketing leadership to Sanmina-SCI's engineering organizations across the major business divisions' technical councils. In conjunction with the senior management team, he coordinated the strategic technical directions for the company and ensured that all engineering initiatives supported the customers' technology priorities and schedules.
Beckenbaugh holds a B.A. in Chemistry from MacMurray College in Illinois and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Rice University in Houston, Texas. In addition, Beckenbaugh has been issued 15 U.S. patents and has been widely published and presented at numerous technical venues.
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Dr. Allen Bard, Ph.D.
Dr. Bard is a distinguished chemist who serves as a special scientific advisor to Konarka. In 1958 he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, where he currently holds the Norman Hackerman/Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry. Dr. Bards research interests include the application of electrochemical methods to the study of chemical problems, and investigations in electro-organic chemistry, photoelectrochemistry, electrogenerated chemiluminescence, and electroanalytical chemistry. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, has published over 600 papers and chapters in electrochemistry, and has received numerous awards for his teaching and research throughout his career. Dr. Bard earned his Ph.D. in Electroanalytical Chemistry at Harvard University in 1958.
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Edward Alan Boulter
Boulter's engineering career includes nearly 40 years with General Electric, during which he also served as a member of the Naval Research Reserve. Since taking an early retirement, Boulter has worked as a consulting engineer with an impressive client roster, including GE. He specializes in electrical insulating materials, systems, manufacturing processes and services problems. A senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Boulter is also actively involved in many other professional organizations.
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Dr. Merrill Cohen, Ph.D.
During his 36-year career at General Electric Laboratories, Cohen held a variety of laboratory management roles, from group leader to lab manager. Among his many career highlights are the development of electrode and insulation materials used in heart "pacemaker" applications. Cohen holds four U.S. patents and has published numerous technical articles.
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Dr. Donald Fitzmaurice, Ph.D.
Dr. Fitzmaurice is Professor of Nanochemistry at University College Dublin. With over one hundred and fifty publications and patents to his name, he is established as a leading researcher in the field. He is serving his second term as a member of the Irish Council for Science Technology and Innovation, the body responsible for advising the national government on these and related matters. He is the founder of NTERA Ltd., the electronic paper company. NTERA Ltd. is a Dublin-based nanotechnology company founded in 1997 with objectives to develop and commercialize nanomaterial-based product applications in visual and display related products. During a recent secondment to the company as Chief Technology Officer, he focused raising the funds necessary to grow the company and on building a world-class technology team. He has recently joined Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading venture capital fund with a particular focus on nanotechnology, as a Venture Partner. Honors include: the Newman Fellowship from University College Dublin (1991-1993); Global Research Awards from IBM (1998 and 1999); and a Blue Skys Research Award from Zeneca (1998). Dr. Fitzmaurice received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the National University of Ireland.
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Dr. Michael Grätzel, Ph.D.
World-renowned scientist and scholar, Dr. Grätzel currently teaches at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland where he directs the Institute of Photonics and Interfaces. Dr. Grätzel has received numerous awards and honorary lectureships for his work, including the Millenium European Prize of Innovation and Technology, the 2001 Faraday Medal of the British Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Dutch Havinga Lecture Award and Medal. Recently, his research led him to the discovery of a new type of solar cell based on dye sensitized nano-structured ceramic layers. Dr. Grätzel has co-authored over 500 publications, two books and more than 20 patents. He ranks amongst the top 100 most highly cited scientists in the world.
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Dr. Jack Hanoka, Ph.D.
Dr. Hanoka is a materials scientist with an international reputation in solar cells and semiconductor characterization. His impressive 30-year career includes co-founding Evergreen Solar in 1994, where he serves as Chief Technical Officer, directing the technical development in wafers, cells and modules. Prior to his work with Evergreen, Dr. Hanoka spent 16 years at Mobil Solar Energy Corporation as a Research Associate. He was responsible for many breakthroughs in photovoltaic technology, including the invention of a novel metallization process and a polymeric encapsulant material. He holds over 15 patents.
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Dr. Douglas B. Holmes, D.Sc.
Dr. Holmes is the Chief Operating Officer of Hy9 Corporation, a firm developing and manufacturing critical components for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Systems, including the purification of hydrogen. Holmes holds six U.S. patents, including an instant film-developing device, coating methods for battery materials and lithium-ion battery materials manufacturing.
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Dr. Glenn Horner, Ph.D.
Horner is co-founder of Aprilis, which develops holographic data storage systems. As Aprilis' Vice President of Business Development, he is responsible for the analysis and development of new business opportunities, business strategy, product marketing and financial planning. Horner previously served as the program and department manager in the R&D division of Polaroid. There, he invented a dye-based system for laser protection used in goggles and gas mask inserts for military personnel. This system resulted in more than $20 million in product sales to the US Army and Marine Corps.
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Dr. Richard Ingwall, Ph.D.
Over his career, Dr. Ingwall has led numerous research teams in the areas of funding, team-building, goal-setting, experimental design, data analysis and communication. A scientist at Polaroid from 1977-99, he holds nine U.S. patents.
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Dr. Jayant Kumar, Ph.D.
Dr. Kumar's distinguished career includes research posts with Argonne National Laboratory (Illinois) as well as the University of Southern California's electrical engineering department and Center for Photonic Technology. Since 1987 Dr. Kumar has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He has established a laboratory for the investigation of optical and electronic phenomena in new polymeric materials and is currently the Director of the Center for Advanced Materials.
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Dr. Yiannis Monovoukas, Ph.D.
Dr. Monovoukas is currently President and CEO of TEI Biosciences, Inc., a tissue engineering and regenerative medicine company, which he joined in April 2001. He was previously President and CEO of Thermo Fibergen, a Thermo Electron Corp. publicly-traded subsidiary. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. from Columbia University. His Ph.D. thesis work focused on the nucleation, growth and optical properties of colloidal crystals made from nano particles of high surface charge density.
He started his career as a research scientist at Raychem Corporation in Menlo Park, California, where he developed, patented and helped commercialize a revolutionary materials-based technology for automotive and telecom applications based on the response of engineered ferrimagnetic particles in electromagnetic fields. He joined Thermo Electron in 1995 from which he launched Thermo Fibergen the following year. Thermo Fibergen, now Kadant Composites, is a world leader in cellulose-based controlled-release carriers for the delivery of agricultural chemicals, and in fiber-based engineered composite materials.
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Dr. N. Serdar Sariciftci, Ph.D.
Dr. Sariciftci is regarded as one of the top scientists worldwide in the field of conducting polymers as applied to photovoltaics. He studied with Nobel Laureate Dr. Alan Heeger at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he and Dr. Heeger were co-inventors of technology related to conducting polymers.
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Dr. Frank Shemansky, Ph.D.
Dr. Frank Shemansky is an independent consultant specializing in MEMS, semiconductor-based sensors, and thin film deposition, and serves as a scientific advisor to Konarka. He spent three years as CTO for Orchid BioComputer, now known as Orchid BioSciences, and eight years prior to that leading industrial R&D at Motorola Semiconductors. Dr. Shemansky received his Ph.D from Arizona State University.
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Dr. Joan Vrtis, Ph.D.
Dr. Vrtis is the Chief Technology Officer for RoseStreet Labs in Phoenix Arizona and the President of eKubik Consulting, LLC. Dr. Vrtis has a demonstrated track record in bringing new technologies to market. A polymer scientist and engineer, Dr. Vrtis serves as a scientific advisor to Konarka following eight years in materials development at Intel Corporation. She has received numerous awards for her successful management of technology, both within Intel and through the North American Electronic Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI), which presented her with the 2001 Outstanding Leadership Recognition Award. Dr. Vrtis received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and holds an M.B.A. from DePaul University in Chicago.
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