RE:RE:The Company is prepared for more..........THE BOARD OF MANAGEMNET!!!
Charles Provini, President & CEO; Corporate Secretary
Mr. Provini holds an Engineering degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and a Masters from the University of Oklahoma. He was the President of Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Management and a Director of Ladenburg Thalmann, Inc., one of the oldest members of the New York Stock Exchange, and has served as President of Laidlaw Asset Management as well as Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Howe & Rusling, Laidlaw’s Portfolio Management Advisory Group. Prior to this, he served as President of Rodman & Renshaw’s Advisory Services and President of LaSalle Street Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Mr. Provini has been a leadership instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy, Chairman of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Honor Board and is a former Marine Corps officer. He is a frequent speaker at financial seminars and has appeared on “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer,” and “Fox and Friends,” discussing financial markets and, more recently, the solar industry.
Dr. David Levy, Director of Research & Technology
Dr. Levy earned his BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in Chemical Engineering, with a minor in Electrical Engineering, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He invented the atmospheric Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition process (SALD) while he was a Senior Research Scientist at Eastman Kodak, where he spent 20 years. With primary applications in the semiconductor industry, SALD is now a recognized area of research in the atomic layer deposition community.
While working with air-free synthesis of nanoparticles, Dr. Levy also gained familiarity with quantum dot systems. The ability to create a three dimensional matrix of quantum dots is a critical step toward the formation of a fully functioning tandem cell, a principal goal of Natcore scientists.
Dr. Levy has been granted 90 patents and has authored 11 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has been an invited presenter at meetings of the Materials Research Society and the American Vacuum Society.
Professor Andrew Barron, Consultant
Dr. Barron is a co-founder of and technical consultant to Natcore. Currently the Charles W. Duncan, Jr.-Welch Chair of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science at Rice University, as well as a visiting Professor at the University of Wales. Dr. Barron is the author of numerous publications in the area of materials preparation via chemical pathways and more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific papers, with nearly 100 focusing on developments in nanotechnology. Professor Barron was also the first faculty member hired for the Smalley Institute for Nanotechnology. Before joining the Rice faculty in 1995, Dr. Barron received his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in chemistry from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, performed postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin, and served on the faculty at Harvard University. He was the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research from the Welch foundation and is the first Prince of Wales Visiting Innovator.
Dr. Dennis J. Flood, Chief Technology Officer
Dennis Flood, PhD, is a Natcore co-founder. He has more than 30 years’ experience in developing solar cell and array technology for both space and terrestrial applications. At the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, he served for 15 years as Chief of the Photovoltaic and Space Environments Branch and led programs in advanced photovoltaic systems development. He received two Agency awards for his pioneering work on advanced solar cells for space applications and for research that established the feasibility of powering a human outpost on the surface of Mars with solar energy. He served as Chair of the IEEE Electron Device Society’s Photovoltaic Device Technical Committee, served as a member of the Society’s Education Committee, and participated in its Distinguished Lecturer Series. He presently serves on the International Advisory Committees of the European, the U.S, the Japan/Asia and the World Photovoltaic Conference organizing committees. He is an inventor or co-inventor on several patents or patent applications in photovoltaics and nanotechnology and has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and presentations in solar energy, electron devices and materials science.
John Calhoun, Director
A co-founder of Natcore, Mr. Calhoun serves as Managing Director of Fort Hill Resources LLC, a private investment company; Director and organizer of FNBC Bank, the largest de novo bank in the history of Louisiana (NASDAQ Ticker: “NBCB”); Managing Director of Shadows Bend Court and Oak Grove Senior Living, long-term care facilities. He has experience in start up and early stage corporate development financing.
Brien Lundin, Chairman & Director
A co-founder of Natcore, Mr. Lundin is an executive, marketer and investor with experience in financing and advising early-stage technology and natural resource enterprises. As the president and CEO of Jefferson Financial, Inc., he is the publisher and editor of several investment publications specializing in technology and resources, including Gold Newsletter, and is the owner and operator of the New Orleans Investment Conference. Mr. Lundin holds a Bachelor of Science from Louisiana State University.