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Dr. Kamy Tehranchi
Kamy Tehranchi is Managing Partner at Watkins & Associates. He came to Watkins after a long and distinguished career of over twenty-one years in the energy industry, culminating in the last four years as Global Strategic Business Manager with Halliburton Energy Services.
Mr. Tehranchi earned a Masters of Science degree in Chemical and Natural Gas Engineering from A&M University in Kingsville, Texas, as well as a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
He began his career with Halliburton Energy Services serving several operational/sales functions in the offshore/onshore sector of oil & gas. From there he held the position of Technical Advisor/Assistant District Manager where he was the focal point of contact with major oil and gas company, identifying business opportunities in Europe and West Africa. Subsequently, he served as Global Marketing Manager, responsible for managing a $700 million product line.
In 1994, Tehranchi was named Latin America Regional Manager with responsibilities for the cementing business in nine Latin American countries and over 1,000 employees. His superior and proven leadership skills soon led to his appointment as Global Product Line Manager for three years, where he lead his team to set future direction for technology and targeting business markets. He played a key role in the global pricing strategy for the product line, resulting in a significant gain on the margins. Tehranchi was also instrumental in developing fit for purpose equipment for focused markets, which resulted in a new generation of land and offshore equipment.
Tehranchi's effective communication and exceptional negotiating skills, led him to be named Global Strategic Business Manager, a key role in the restructuring and integration of three major product lines between Halliburton Energy Services and Dresser Oil Field Services, where he was responsible for long–and short–term strategies and direction of three major product lines with a revenue of $2 billion. Also directly responsible for the development and commercialization of new products of over $300 million in 2000, he was instrumental in redefining the manufacturing process for a product line and acquired breakthrough technology in the drilling fluids business, giving Baroid Drilling Fluids a clear market
leadership.
After over twenty years of a proven and successful domestic and international career at Halliburton, Tehranchi has recently joined Watkins & Associates as Managing Partner, where his outstanding leadership skills, professionalism, dedication and commitment will honor the Watkins promise, "Through COMMITMENT and SERVICE, Watkins & Associates is the Premier executive search consulting firm."
Tehranchi, fluent in five languages, is an active member of several professional and community associations.
Prof.
Akira Mita
Dr. Akira Mita (See
Link)
is an authority in the field of sensors, particularly
in structural health monitoring in Japan. He is the inventor
of key fiber optic sensors based
on fiber
gratings such as fiber accelerometers.
Prof.
Biswanath Mukherjee
Dr. Biswanath Mukherjee,
currently Professor (and Past Chairman) of Computer Science,
has an extensive background in computing, networking, and
security related industries. Biswanath earned his Doctorate
Degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle in
1987 and his Master Degrees in Electrical Engineering, Southern
Illinois University, and Electronics and Electrical Communications
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India). His strong background
includes Department Chair, Computer Science, University of California, Davis; Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Davis; and numerous other positions. Dr
Mukherjee will bring his broad background to full support of IFOS endeavors.
Dr.
Ferey Faridian
With 20 years of experience in high-technology businesses
from Fortune 100 to venture backed, Ferey has been entrepreneur,
VC, investment banker, corporate strategist and senior manager
in industry. He focuses on helping companies realize hidden
value through financial and operational structuring. Ferey
began his career at Schlumberger Industries, where he led
the accelerated product group of Weston-Solartron. He then
joined a leading European technology, business and venture
group in Cambridge, UK, where he worked at board level with
a number of Fortune 500 conglomerates in corporate strategy
and M&A's. Upon moving to the US, Ferey joined Digital
Coast Partners (now Montgomery & Co.) as VP of this California boutique
merchant bank. He was then appointed a venture partner and West Coast representative
of both the BV Group, a $1 billion fund of funds in Washington, DC and
one of its portfolio investments,Cornerstone Ventures, a $100 million venture
capital fund in Denver, CO. Ferey has served as CEO and President of three
companies, including a pioneering venture-backed optics startup in Southern
California. Ferey is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He holds a PhD from University
College, London, where he was lecturer, having pioneered new forms of imaging
and microscopy in close ties with the Ginzton Laboratories of Physics at
Stanford University. Ferey also holds an MBA from Cambridge University
where he was recipient of an IEE merit scholarship.
Dr. Robert T. Cole
Bob is highly experienced in the aerospace and aviation industry
with more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience in
that field
and including the development of techniques for embedding fiber optic
sensors in composite panels. His experience includes both small and
large companies such as Lockheed Martin where he managed the Antennas
in Structural Composites program for Navy.
Dr. Robert Blum
Robert is excellent in the design of fiber optic devices and systems
as well as experiments. He is very methodical and efficient in implementing
design plans.Robert is presently Senior Scientist in the area of
Polymer PhotonIC Devices at Gemfire Corporation, where his responsibilities
include
device design, fabrication and prototype evaluation, reliability
testing, and failure mode analysis. Previously, he served as an optical
engineering
consultant for IFOS
. Dr. Blum also has an extensive research background
in the areas of nonlinear optical polymers, optical waveguides, side-polished
fiber devices and photonic bandgap materials. He worked as a Research
Scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Technische
Universitat Hamburg-Harburg, Germany while studying towards his Ph.D.
degree. Robert has also conducted research at Stanford University,
Technische Hochschule Darmstadt and the Deutsche Telekom Research
Center in Darmstadt, Germany, and Ecole Polytechnique Federale in
Lausanne,
Switzerland. He holds an M.S. in Optics and Semiconductor Physics
and a Ph.D. in Physics.
Dr. Ken Toyama
Ken has a strong mix of optics, electronics and software experience
both in terms of design and construction, testing and debugging.
He was one of the early contributors to IFOS
projects. He is strong
in
both theory and practical implementation. His PhD was on aspects
of the fiber optic gyroscope, passive components, amplifiers, sources
and signal processing for optical systems under Professor John Shaw
at Stanford. Ken’s industrial experience ranges from Nippondenso
Co. Ltd., Japan, where he worked on ultrasonic and microwave device
systems, Quantum where he honed his industrial electronic skills
and Cisco Systems where he was a lead engineer in the development
of metro
fiber optic networking.
Dr. Bijan Moslehi
Bijan has a background in mechanical engineering and a particularly
good view of the sensor and semiconductor manufacturing industry
as well as high-tech investment and the development of fabrication
facilities.
He is presently Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President
of the Semiconductor Technology Research Division of The Noblemen
Group lead the company's technology research and analysis efforts
developed
to support Noblemen Group clients involved in various aspects of
investment banking transactions, as well as providing chip makers,
capital equipment
and material suppliers, and members of the investment community with
critical market and technology assessment enabling them to make intelligent,
business-critical decisions. Bijan was previously a VP at KLA Tencor,
and prior to that led the construction of a multi-million dollar fabrication
facility for a
major chip manufacturer. Bijan obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University
in Mechanical Engineering. His experience includes R&D at HTGL,
Stanford, Applied Materials, HP Labs, Fairchild Research Center,
National Semiconductor Corporation with the Manufacturing Technology
Group of
Fairchild Research Center. He is a member of the American Association
for Aerosol Research (AAAR), Fine Particle Society (FPS), Institute
of Environmental Sciences (IES), IEEE, ASME, and Sigma Xi.
Dr. Mark Cutkosky, Robotics Authority, Stanford Center for Design Research
Mark R. Cutkosky is Professor and Associate Chair of the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Dept. where he joined the Design Division in 1985 after working for several years in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University and as a machine design engineer at ALCOA, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Cutkosky's research interests include robotic manipulation and tactile sensing and the design and fabrication of small, biologically inspired robots using layered manufacturing methods. He is a principal investigator of the Design Interface for 3D Manufacturing and Biomimetic Robotics projects at the Center for Design Research, director of the Dextrous Manipulation Lab, and a co-director of the Stanford Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing. Prof. Cutkosky received his PhD (1985) and MS (1982) both in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, and BS (1978) in Mechanical Engineering from University of Rochester. Prof. Cutkosky’s awards/honors include:
- Fulbright Distinguished Chair for Mechatronics, Pisa, Italy (2002)
- JSPS fellowship, Japan (2001)
- Charles M. Pigott Professorship (1996)
- Best paper awards, ASEE Symposium (2000) & ASME Database Symposium (1994)
- Outstanding paper award, IEEE ICRA (1993)
- Anderson Faculty Scholar (1989)
- NSF President Young Investigator (1986)
Dr. Ram Yahalom, President, InFiber Technology
Dr. Ram Yahalom is currently an independent consultant, specializing in fiber optics gyros and sensors. He is doing-business-as InFiber Technology. He is a US citizen. Thru June 2007, he held the position of the R&D Manager of Northrop Grumman Navigational System Division’s (NSD) Canton facility (previously Fibersense Technology Corporation, FTC), focusing on FOG systems. In 1996, Dr. Yahalom joined FTC, then a start-up company, as Chief Scientist. As the leading gyro professional in FTC, he headed the FOG development and implemented a broad range of sensors, from high accuracy, space qualified FOGs to extremely small and ruggedized FOGs.
During his tenure at FTC, Dr. Yahalom also served in a variety of roles, including optical engineering group manager, project engineering manager and program manager of several complex technical multi-million dollar programs. Dr. Yahalom fulfilled a critical role in the success of Fibersense, which grew from 12 to 140 employees and was ultimately sold to NSD in December 1992. As a FOG developer, he was directly involved in the detailed design of the sensors. Specializing in analysis, modeling and error reduction of FOGs, he developed the necessary theoretical and experimental modeling and infrastructure for high-precision gyros. He performed system and requirements flow-down analysis, detailed functional design, test design and transition to manufacturing. Dr. Yahalom has extensive experience in the specification, development and implementation of optical components and subsystems for high-accuracy FOGs: Super luminescence LED and Fiber sources, LiNbO3 modulators, Polarization Maintaining and single mode fiber & coils, coupler and integrated modules. Dr. Yahalom holds PhD and BS degrees in physics. He spent 3 years as a research associate at the Optoelectronic Group in California Institute of Technology where he performed research on non-linear optics. Dr. Yahalom has more than 25 years combined experience in R&D management, scientific and engineering research, as well as business development and management.
Prof. Pierre Khuri-Yakub
Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub is a Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Stanford University. He received the BS degree from the
American University of Beirut, the MS degree from Dartmouth College, and
the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. His
current research interests include medical ultrasound imaging and therapy,
chemical/biological sensors, micromachined ultrasonic transducers, and
ultrasonic fluid ejectors. He has authored over 500 publications and has been
principal inventor or co-inventor of 88 US and international issued patents. He
was awarded the Medal of the City of Bordeaux in 1983 for his contributions
to Nondestructive Evaluation, the Distinguished Advisor Award of the School
of Engineering at Stanford University in 1987, the Distinguished Lecturer
Award of the IEEE UFFC society in 1999, a Stanford University Outstanding
Inventor Award in 2004, and a Distinguished Alumnus Award of the School
of Engineering of the American University of Beirut in 2005.
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