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David A. Henderson
Founder, CEO and Chief Technology Officer
David is a technology innovator, experienced business leader, and proven team builder. He has
more than 25 years of experience in engineering, new product introduction, worldwide market development, and profitable business operations. David’s technical expertise is in mechanical and precision systems engineering. He has published or presented numerous papers and holds several patents including the patent for the SQUIGGLE motor.
Before founding New Scale in 2002, David was director of the positioning product division of Burleigh Instruments (now EXFO), where he was responsible for the precision positioning products, markets and applications. Two examples are microinjection tools for transgenic research, and nano-robots for photonics alignment. He has prior experience as a program manager and mechanical engineer with Contraves USA.
David has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. He serves as chairman of the New Scale Technology board of directors.
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Ted Franceschi
CEO and Chief Development Officer
Ted has been forging New Scale’s financial and commercial relationships since early 2005. As an advisor with High Tech Rochester, he was instrumental in arranging New Scale’s 2005 venture financing and securing the 2006 license agreement with Tamron. He was named CDO in 2006 and shares the duties of chief executive with David Henderson.
Ted has more than 25 years of experience with start up, turn-around and blue chip companies. He began his career at Toshiba America Electronic Components, where he held a number of senior executive positions during his 20
year tenure, culminating in his role as senior vice president responsible for the entire $2.5 billion business unit. He then led a number of entrepreneurial ventures, serving as CEO of global IC/IP consulting firm Consequent Partners; COO of fabless semiconductor firm BTI; and executive VP of audio technology company SRS Labs.
Ted is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at High Tech Rochester and serves on New Scale’s board of directors. He has a BS from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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David Simpson
Vice President of Marketing and Sales
Dave joined New Scale in 2010 with 24 years of experience in
sales, marketing and operations. He was most recently with New
Scale’s strategic partner austriamicrosystems, where he was
instrumental in introducing New Scale’s SQUIGGLE micro motor to
austriamicrosystems’ worldwide direct sales force and distribution
network. In this role he drove sales, marketing, engineering and
channel activities for the companies’ jointly-developed
micro-mechatronic systems.
Dave has held numerous senior management positions with Fortune 500
as well as start-up companies. He was vice president of North
American sales for Harris Corporation’s semiconductor division, a
$400M business, and director of sales for the Americas at Temic
Semiconductor, a division of Daimler Corporation. He started the
collaboration business unit and managed overall operations as vice
president of E2open, a start-up provider of cloud-based supply chain
management solutions backed by IBM. He has additional experience as
co-founder of web-based collaboration start-up WebPRN, vice
president of Open-Xchange, and president of IGC LLC.
Dave has a BS from the State University of New York at Brockport
with dual concentrations in Marketing and Finance.
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Todd Haran
Vice President of Engineering
Todd leads research, product development and application
engineering at New Scale. He joined the company in 2004 and became
vice president of engineering in 2008.
Todd’s leadership has resulted in numerous product and technology
innovations at New Scale which are the direct result of working
effectively with our global strategic partners. These innovations
include smaller and lower-voltage SQUIGGLE motors and UTAF motors,
advanced ICs for motor drive and TRACKER position sensors, and fully
integrated micro motion systems. Todd’s group has developed numerous
customized products that meet the most demanding needs of customers.
Before joining New Scale, Todd managed the mechanical design of
precision positioning and optical products at EXFO Burleigh products
group. He has prior experience as a structural analyst with GE Power
Systems for new combustion turbine design, and as a consultant with
Turbine Technologies International using finite element analysis (FEA)
techniques to study failures and recommend design and manufacturing
solutions for clients worldwide.
He has a BSMET and an MBA with a concentration in computer integrated
manufacturing and technology management from the Rochester Institute of
Technology.
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Jose J. Coronas
Director
José is a general partner with
Trillium Group, a Rochester, NY-based private equity firm managing early stage venture capital and growth equity funds. He is an experienced executive with strong ties to the health industry. He has served as president of Johnson and Johnson Clinical Diagnostics; vice president and general manager of Kodak's Clinical Diagnostics Division; and president and CEO of Genencor International, a Kodak bio-technology spinoff.
He serves on numerous company boards and is a trustee of Monroe Community College Foundation, Hillside Children's Foundation and Junior Achievement of Rochester. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. John Fisher College.
José earned a BS from the University of Miami and an MBA from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester.
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Bruno B. Glavich
Director
Bruno is founder and CEO of
Applied Image Group, a leading provider of photonic, imaging, and electro-optical components and systems for markets including optics, fiber optics, lighting, medical, communications, scanning, automotive, imaging, and photonics. He is also active in numerous VC equity funding efforts through private equity company Istria, Inc.
Bruno has over 30 years of experience in photonics and imaging, including prior leadership and technical positions at PSC, Inc. and Bausch & Lomb. He is a founding member of the Rochester Region Photonics Cluster (RRPC) for the promotion of optical photonic technology in the Rochester, NY region, and participates in the Saunders College Dean's Advisory Council at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
He earned a BS in photographic and imaging science and an MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and was awarded the RIT School of Business Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1984.
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Peter Loeppert, Ph.D.
Director
Peter has a 30-year record of invention, development and
successful commercialization of microelectronic products. Currently
vice president of research and development at
Knowles Acoustics,
he led the development and commercialization of Knowles’
SiSonicTM silicon
microphone. He also created the first MOS-based microphone circuits
now used in 80% of all hearing aids.
Peter has prior integrated circuit (IC) product development and
commercialization experience with Monolithic Sensors, Gould Electronics
Corporate Research Laboratory and McDonnell Douglas.
He holds a Ph.D. and MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue
University, and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science from Iowa State University. He has published numerous papers and
holds 15 patents for microelectronic circuits, devices and processes.
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Stefan Thomke, Ph.D.
Director
Stefan is the William Barclay Harding Professor of
Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has taught
and chaired MBA and executive courses on technology & operations
management, product development, R&D and innovation management, and
operations strategy -- both at Harvard Business School and in
individual company programs in the United States and abroad. He is
currently faculty chair of the MBA Required Curriculum, faculty
co-chair of the doctoral program in Science, Technology and
Management (S,T&M), and faculty chair of the Executive Education
Program “Leading Product Development,” which helps business leaders
revamp product development processes for greater competitive
advantage. He has prior experience in electronics and semiconductor
fabrication, and with McKinsey & Company in Germany.
Professor Thomke holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and
Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
where he was awarded a Lemelson-MIT doctoral fellowship for
invention and innovation research. He has BS and MS degrees in
Electrical Engineering and SM degrees in Operations Research and
Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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