Dr. Frank Greer, CEO/CTO/Co-Founder

Dr. Frank Greer is a semiconductor professional with over 20 years of hands-on, research, and management experience in semiconductor fabrication technologies, devices, hybridization and packaging, equipment, facilities, and safety assurance maintenance.  He holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California at Berkeley in Chemical Engineering.  He joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in 2007 as a Senior Member of Technical Staff and now serves as the Manager and Technical Group Supervisor of the Microdevices Laboratory and its support staff.  Prior to his tenure at JPL, Frank had several years of semiconductor industry and managerial experience from Novellus Systems, Intermolecular, and Intel Corporation. Frank holds over 30 US patents and over 20 refereed journal papers in the fields of nanotechnology, semiconductor processing, and detectors. Frank has contributed to the co-founding of a company based on some of the patents that came from JPL technologies.  He has been a significant technical contributor to a diverse family of NASA missions in the fields of Life Detection, Exoplanet Exploration, Star Formation, and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation from the Big Bang. 

Tony Lee, CFA, COO and Co-Founder

Tony has over 20-years of experience in financial management and operations. Prior to working for Nanoclear, Tony was a quantitative portfolio manager and researcher for an institutional money manager. Tony holds a BS/MS from UCLA, MBA from USC and is a Chartered CFA. 

George Lauro, Board Member and Head of Business Development/New Partnerships

George has 25 years as a venture capitalist, investment banker and board executive funding & building technology companies. He has been a Board Director at seven public and 26 private companies. George was Managing Director & Partner at Wasserstein Perella, a leading Wall Street private equity & leveraged buyout firm and Partner at US Equity Partners L.P. He led Wasserstein Perella’s west coast VC/LBO office in Palo Alto, CA. In addition, he built several tech companies from prototype stage to high-value exit (M&A/IPO).  

George raised over $250M VC/PE financing for portfolio companies and completed M&A transactions exceeding $2B in value. Prior to Wasserstein Perella, George was Managing Director of Technology Commercialization at IBM World HQ and led a team that launched IBM spinouts from Watson Research Lab. George began his career designing inertial guidance systems for strategic ICBM missiles at Draper Lab and MIT Aero/Astro Dept. George holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brown University an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and completed graduate studies in Aeronautical Engineering at MIT. George holds 23 patents awarded for inventions in inertial guidance, advanced materials and wireless technologies. His Board Director positions have included Peregrine Semiconductor (Nasdaq:PSMI), Lightwave Logic (Nasdaq:LWLG), Westinghouse Solar (Nasdaq WES), Triscend (acquired by XLNX), SMaL Camera (acq CY), Hotrail (acq SWKS), Sensera (ASE:SE1), and 25 others. Board Chairman and Interim CEO. Led & syndicated 34 equity financings 

Prof. Rehan Kapadia, SVP of Semiconductor Devices

Rehan Kapadia received his bachelors in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. During his time at Berkeley, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and winner of the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for outstanding research. He is a professor in the ECE department at the University of Southern California where he holds the Colleen and Roberto Padovani Early Career Chair. He serves as the director of the John O'Brien Nanofabrication Facility. He also is the co-director of MOSIS 2.0, a central part of the CHIPS ACT funded CA DREAMS Hub, led by USC. Since joining USC he has received an Air Force Young Investigator award, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award, and the Peter Mark Memorial Award for young scientists from the American Vacuum Society. 

Steve Hisey, MBA, CFO

Experienced strategic executive that provides high-end CFO services to startups, high growth and venture-backed companies on an as-needed basis. Steve has over 30 years of progressive experience with a specialization in technology, including software, online marketing, nanotech, healthcare, as well as manufacturing and distribution. His experience includes mergers and acquisitions, operations, strategic planning, modeling, business innovation, fund raising, financial reporting, software implementations and internal controls design. 

Todd Thomson, Board Member

 Todd is an accomplished operating executive and entrepreneur, having served as Citigroup CFO for 5-years and as CEO of Citigroup’s $10 Billion Global Wealth Management division for 2.5 years. Todd is a leading practitioner on M&A and business strategy, having led the acquisition and strategy efforts for Citigroup and GE Capital, as well as serving as advisor to Fortune 500 firms while at Bain & Co., Booz Allen Hamilton, and Barents Group. He has extensive investing experience as CEO of Citigroup Alternative investments, Chairman of the Citi Pension investment Committee, Chairman of the Dynasty Investment Committee, and a member of the Investment Committees for the Davidson College and World Resources Institute endowments.