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Management Team

Richard Brewer

Chief Executive Officer and President

Prior to being recruited to TraceDetect, Richard successfully founded, grew and sold two companies. He founded KTI Chemicals, which developed, manufactured and sold materials used for semiconductor photolithography during the computer chip manufacturing process. Five years later, he sold the company to Union Carbide as an operating subsidiary. He remained with KTI for eight years following the sale, growing the revenue more than 10 fold. Next, Richard founded ACSI, a semiconductor materials and equipment company and sold it to ATMI in 1999. Richard spent the first nine years of his career at Texas Instruments & Raytheon, initially working on the team that created the first commercial Integrated Circuit.

William Dietze, Ph.D.

Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Bill is co-author of the Company’s four provisional patents, and has 23 years of experience as a manager and scientist in materials science and integrated circuit design. He was formerly a manager at Varian Associates in Palo Alto, California. Bill earned his B.A. at Cornell, an M.S. in materials science from Stanford, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington.

Greg Hoyle

VP Sales & Marketing

Over 20 years experience in product sales and marketing as well as an engineering background in the semiconductor development and ASIC design. Prior to joining TraceDetect, Greg was Business Unit Director of BSQUARE Corporation for software and embedded products. As Sales and Marketing Manager for Terra Technology, he was responsible for a product line that included sensors, scientific instruments and data acquisition systems with an international customer base in academia, government agencies, water and power utilities, and industrial customers.

Vladimir Dozortsev, Ph.D.

Engineer

Vladimir has 20 years of experience as a scientist in electro analytical chemistry, development of modern analytical instrumentation, chemical engineering, and process control. He is the author or co-author of several patents. Most recently, he led the on-line real time process analyzer development project at IonGuard, where he invented a new Volta metric flow cell. Vladimir earned his B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Chemical Technology, Moscow, Russia, and his Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University.

Laura Espling, C.P.A.

Controller

Laura began her career with Ernst & Young then moved to HomeGrocer.com where she was the accounting manager, as the Company grew from a small start-up to an IPO of $250M and was eventually acquired by the Webvan Group.