Management:

Armond Cohen is the Executive Director of the Boston-based Clean Air Task Force. Founded in 1996, the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring clean air and healthy environments through scientific research, public education, and legal advocacy.

Leslie Field, Ph.D. has wide-ranging experience in engineering, industrial R&D, consulting, invention and entrepreneurship. She earned degrees from MIT (BS and MS in Chemical Engineering) and UC Berkeley (MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering with a MEMS specialization). She has worked at HP Labs/Agilent Labs and Chevron Research, has founded and run two successful technical consulting companies and is a Consulting Professor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

Nicole Kerness, Ph.D. is a Director of Technology Research and Development at Maxim Integrated Products. Previously Nicole was the VP of Product Engineering at Silicon Microstructures Inc. (SMI), a MEMS pressure sensor company, was a post-doctorate at Stanford University, and worked at Lockheed Martin Federal Systems as an engineer in MEMS and system reliability in radiation environments. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering / MEMS from Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, an M.S. degree in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Cornell University, and a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Steve Payne is the Managing Partner of Stinson Ventures, a technology and investment advisory firm. Previously he was Managing Partner of Ignite Ventures. Steve has extensive background in high tech management, venture capital and strategy consulting and works with a number of Cleantech startups, including mentoring one of the winning teams in the 2008 California CleanTech Open. He holds a degree in Engineering and Public Policy from Washington University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Leslie Field, Ph.D. has been inventing, developing and testing the Ice911 concept since 2006, and has brought her wide-ranging experience in engineering, industrial R&D, consulting, invention and entrepreneurship to the task. Dr. Field has degrees from MIT (BS and MS in Chemical Engineering) and UC Berkeley (MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering with a MEMS specialization). She has worked at HP Labs/Agilent Labs and Chevron Research, has founded and run two successful technical consulting companies and is a Consulting Professor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where she teaches an annual Fall-Quarter seminar class in Engineering and Climate Change.

Susan Strehlow is a strategic senior level manager with demonstrated skills in communication, process improvement, analysis, problem solving, innovation, organizational development, team building, and leadership.

Nicole Kerness, Ph.D. has extensive experience in engineering and engineering management.

Ellen Baum is a Senior Scientist with the Clean Air Task Force.
Satish Chetty is the CTO of Beyond 66, and specializes in polar instrumentation and open source solutions.
Professor Roger Howe is in the Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University.
Professor Terry Root is a Biologist in the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University.
B. Stephen Toben is the President of the Flora Family Foundation.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has provided comprehensive pro bono legal services to this project.