Advisory Board

Chairman: Dr. Gordon Baty

A cofounder and Managing Partner of Zero Stage Capital, Dr. Baty has more than 30 years operating experience in the formation, financing, operation, and merger and acquisition of new companies. Dr. Baty worked for Draper Laboratory from 1962 - 1964. He then founded and became the Chief Executive Officer of Icon Corporation. He subsequently founded both Context Corporation and Wormser Engineering, Inc. Dr. Baty is a Director of nine private companies.

Most recently, he has worked with Mercury Computer Systems, Novitron International, Cognex Corporation, and Ibis Technology, all of which have had successful public offerings.

An accomplished writer and speaker on the subject of venture formation, Dr. Baty has published Entrepreneurship for the Nineties (Prentice-Hall, 1990), a practical guide for entrepreneurs seeking to build successful venture companies.

Dr. Baty earned three degrees from MIT: an S.B. and an S.M. in Industrial Management and a Ph.D. in Finance. For several years he taught entrepreneurial management at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is a founder of the MIT Enterprise Forum.

Dr. George Ashur

With over 20 years of senior investment analysis experience at Fortis Investments, Fleet Bank , Wellington Management Company, LLP, Chase Securities, Paine Webber, Scudder, Stevens & Clark and other firms, Dr. Ashur brings a wealth of knowledge with respect to securities investment. He has founded and was the CEO of a startup company which developed specialized IT services for the health care industry.

Dr. Ashur holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. From College of the Holy Cross in Biology and History. He was a Harvard University Fulbright-Hayes Scholar. He serves on the Board of Directors of four companies.

Alain Hanover

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Dr. John Kreick

Dr. Kreick has over 30 years experience in the development of advanced electronic systems. He served from 1988 to 1998 as the President of Sanders (later Lockheed Sanders). During his career at Sanders, Dr. Kreick was responsible for a wide variety of electronic systems and their successful transition to both military and commercial applications.

Dr. Kreick holds Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees from the University of Michigan in Theoretical Physics. He serves as Chairman of the Board of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, and is on the Board of Directors or Board of Trustees for seven organizations and has served on numerous national advisory committees and councils.

Dr. Bradford Parkinson

Dr. Parkinson has over 35 years experience in the management of technology. As an Air Force officer, he was the Program Director for the Global Positioning System Program during the key phases of the system development. Since retiring from the Air Force, Dr. Parkinson has held a variety of positions in industry and academia. He has served as a Vice President of the Space Systems Group at Rockwell International and as the President and CEO of Trimble Navigation. He currently serves as the Board Chairman of The Aerospace Corporation. He also has startup company experience at Intermetrics, Inc. He has been a professor at Colorado State University and is now a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University.

Dr. Parkinson has served on a plethora of advisory panels and committees for the government and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of four companies. He serves as the Board Chairman of The Aerospace Corporation. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics, an MS degree from MIT and a BS from the U.S. Naval Academy.

Jerome Schaufeld

Mr. Schaufeld was formerly Executive Vice President of the Slater Fund, Rhode Island's state venture fund. He has a wealth of experience in entrepreneurship, operations and general management of technology-based companies. Previously, he served as the President and CEO of Mass Ventures, a western Massachusetts venture development company, and he was the founder of Incus Group, a CEO-based business acquisition organization. He also was co-founder of Phoenix Controls Corporation which pioneered the manufacturing of air flow systems in critical laboratory and hospital environments. Phoenix was recently sold to a Fortune 500 company. Prior to that, he held senior functional responsibilities at a series of technology-based manufacturing companies.

Jerry was founder and first Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts and serves on numerous boards of technology-based companies and several non-profit organizations, including the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Association for Corporate Growth. He has a BSME from New Jersey Institute of Technology, an MBA from Northeastern and attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Vincent Vitto

Mr. Vincent Vitto has over 30 years experience in the development of technology. . Since 1997 he has served as President and CEO of The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. Previously, he worked for 32 years at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory. His technical specialty is advanced communications systems and satellite systems. As head of the Communications Directorate at Lincoln, he oversaw the development of the pioneering work in optical switching and networking that created several spinoff companies whose current market capitalization currently exceeds $50B. During his career at Lincoln he served in a variety of technical and management roles prior to becoming an Assistant Director of the Laboratory in 1995.

Mr. Vitto is the Chairman of the Naval Studies Board and is a member of the Defense Science Board. He has served on numerous other government advisory boards and panels. He is on the Boards of Directors or Trustees of four companies. He holds MS and BS degrees in Physics from Northeastern University and The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn respectively.