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Greg Schmergel Greg was selected as the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner in New England, in the emerging technology category. The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program honors entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. |
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| Dr. Thomas Rueckes Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. Tom completed his PhD at Harvard University in the Department of Chemistry. He is the inventor of the NRAM™ concept and co-author of the associated patent application. His experience spans the fields of nanotechnology and vacuum surface science of semiconductors and metals. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard University, and was first author of the paper "Carbon Nanotube-based Nonvolatile Random Access Memory for Molecular Computing," Science 289, 94 (2000). He has also worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, a Diplom student at the University of Marburg in Germany (degree received in Chemistry in December 1995), and the Erasmus Fellow at Imperial College, London. His awards include the Materials Research Society Gold Award (2000) and the Erasmus Student Fellowship of the European Community (1993-1994). Tom was also selected as a Finalist in the Experimental category for the 2003 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology awarded by the Foresight Institute (previous winners have included Professor Charles Lieber of Harvard University and Phaedon Avouris of IBM). His work has been highlighted in the press and in numerous journals including: The Industrial Physicist, Chemical & Engineering News, IMM Reports, Harvard University Gazette (front page article), Nanodot-Foresight, NanoTech News, and Technology Research News, in addition to an interview on National Public Radio (on the topic of NTRAM). |
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| Dr. Brent M. Segal Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer. Brent has become a leading authority on the strategic and tactical aspects of building and managing a large nanotechnology-based intellectual property portfolio, through his work in overseeing Nantero’s 100+ patent applications, of which over 45 have been granted. He is often asked to speak at industry events on the topic. Brent also pioneered the development of Nantero’s Government Business Unit, now a leading provider of carbon nanotube-based products and services to the US Government. Brent previously ran laboratory operations at Metaprobe LLC, where he was a Research Chemist. He was previously a Research Associate at Nycomed Salutar, Inc., and received his PhD in Chemistry from Harvard University. He has published frequently in a variety of prestigious academic journals. He is Chairman of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) at Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts at Lowell and University of New Hampshire. He is frequently invited to speak at conferences and seminars such as COMDEX, NANOTECH 2006/7 and the annual National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). He is a graduate of Reed College, with a degree in Biochemistry |
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