Following are the bios for NPT’s executive team.
Dick Herring, Chairman of the Board, NanoPrint Technologies, Inc.
Dick Herring has several decades of
experience in running large corporations and successfully starting
and running new high tech companies. Dick was
Sr. Vice President of Ball
Aerospace and later was founder and CEO of
Earth Watch, Inc., a company focused on
remote sensing technology. After retiring from Earth
Watch, Dick became CEO of Spectral
Solutions, Inc., a company focused on cellular telephone
enhancement products. Since retiring from
Spectral Solutions, Dick
has served as the Executive Director of
Engineers Without Borders – USA and has served on other boards for
non-profit organizations. Dick has also helped start
several other successful high tech companies.
Dick brings a strong technical background with a PhD in Chemical
Engineering and a strong business leadership background from his
experience in running companies. From years of experience, Dick
understands technical issues and how to bring new technology to
market and develop high level partnerships with key organizations
to insure success. Dick also has many years of managing fast
growing companies and how to structure for long term success.
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Bob Morrison, Co-Founder and President, NanoPrint Technologies, Inc.
Bob Morrison has 25 years of
experience in the high tech industry covering a variety of
responsibilities, including engineering, sales, business
development, and management. Bob has a long history of being a
leader of new technology sales and business development of new,
complex solutions; being the number one performer in the nation
for several companies. From marketing and engineering
perspectives, Bob has been at the forefront in developing new
product and service requirements to address the needs of new
markets. He is good at leading diverse teams to generate and
maintain successful relationships with partners and customers.
Prior to NanoPrint Technologies,
Bob was responsible for a large, diverse staff at a church with
over 65 employees. In his tenure with LifeBridge Christian
Church, he was the church Administrator and managed finances,
operational staff, facilities staff, communications, information
technology, and was responsible for leading the strategic planning
for the church’s long term mission and vision. During this time,
the church prospered and developed many new successful programs
that utilize a large number of volunteers. While serving at the
church, Bob continued to actively do sales engineering and
marketing consulting in the high tech market.
Prior to his career with LifeBridge
Christian Church, Bob held a variety of positions in engineering,
sales, management, and business development for HP, Mentor
Graphics, Harris Data Communications, Dataware Technologies, and
other high tech firms that developed and sold computing and
software solutions. Bob has a proven track record to develop new
markets and strong business for new technologies where there was
little or no prior market maturity or customer base.
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Peter Morrison, Co-Founder and CTO, NanoPrint Technologies, Inc.
Peter Morrison was president of
Precision Label Inc. which he founded with his wife Mary in 2000.
Peter has 21 years of technical experience. The last 12 years
have been in the roll-to-roll printing industry. Peter worked
with ink suppliers, tooling makers and customers to develop better
ways to produce high volume products involving thin film ink
applications where traditional ink thickness were not providing
the performance and price points required for the applications.
He further developed tooling and techniques to provide a variety
of solutions and applications for demanding print applications.
His experience and expertise of printing at the high end where
tight controls, resolution, registration, quality and consistency
are a must have won him many satisfied customers worldwide. He
has an excellent understanding of printing technologies and knows
how to combine, modify, and improvise equipment, techniques and
processes to provide the best solution for unique and difficult
printing.
Prior to Precision Label, Peter was
half owner of Pacific Thermal, Inc. where he provided non standard
engineering solutions to mechanical engineers with difficult
challenges to overcome. He also worked as a sales engineer for
Symons Forming Systems providing solutions to Engineers for their
projects in large industrial construction projects.
Peter currently has several designs and processes for roll-to-roll
printing that are in various stages of patent filing. His time
spent testing and learning the limitations of printing equipment
and inks gives him a unique level of knowledge in the printing
industry that has attracted other companies to seek him out for
answers to their tough printing problems. He has a unique ability
to see beyond the current physical form of many tools, equipment
and concepts to develop new and better products.
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Todd L. Kannegieter, CFO, NanoPrint Technologies, Inc.
Mr. Kannegieter has 23 years of
finance, accounting and treasury experience. Mr. Kannegieter’s
experience includes private equity placements and debt issuances
for start-up Communications and Internet services companies,
strategic and financial planning, mergers and acquisitions and
managing finance and accounting activities for both domestic and
international businesses in the Communications and Internet
services sectors. He currently serves as Vice President -
Finance (CFO), Circadence Corporation.
Before joining Circadence, Mr. Kannegieter served as CFO of Rivien
Communications, Inc., a telecommunications company providing
integrated voice and data applications, where he was responsible
for accounting, finance and investor relations functions. Prior
to Rivien, he was VP of Finance at COMSAT International (now part
of Lockheed Martin) where he also had complete accounting and
finance responsibility. While with MediaOne (now Comcast) Mr.
Kannegieter held various finance positions including CFO of an
international wireless operation in Hungary and executive director
of finance working the New Vector merger with Airtouch. Mr.
Kannegieter started his career with KPMG Peat Marwick.
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Harold (Hal) R. Bagley, Director, NanoPrint Technologies, Inc.
Hal Bagley has over 25 years
experience leading small high tech companies and launching new
products. Hal was most recently an officer and member of an
executive team of four that grew a high tech company from 19
employees and $2M in annual revenue to 200 employees and $40M
while also successfully launching a $10M/year international
products from a predominantly R&D laser company. His team led
this same company through an acquisition/merger with Lockheed
Martin, and Hal has been the senior executive responsible for
successful integration. Revenues have doubled in 18 months and
will double again in another 18 months. Previous to that, Hal
created an optical processing commercial business with $5M in
revenues within 2 years. This was one of the frontrunners to
Ladar Lasik techniques.
Hal is also committed to community involvement: created a
sustaining support team for the Women’s Safehouse of Longmont,
founder of a Peer Mentor Program at Craig Rehab Hospital and
former youth basketball coach. He holds a Bachelor of Science in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado with
graduate studies at the University of California, Irvine, Stanford
Advanced Management College, and International Negotiations Study
(Moscow). Hal holds 2 patents.
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Greg Davis, COO, NanoPrint Technologies, Inc.
Greg Davis has over 25 years of
experience in operations and manufacturing management in the
electronics and computer peripheral markets with an emphasis on
product development and design for manufacturing. He has much
hands-on experience with flex circuit manufacturing and
applications and has led Lean Manufacturing programs for several
client companies.
During his 17 years with Comptec
International, Ltd., Greg was a leader in product development,
operations management, and sales. He provided products and
automation systems from 5 manufacturing locations in North America
and Europe to large customers, including IBM, Compaq, Apple,
Hewlett Packard, Northern TelCom, Raytheon, ITW, Alcatel, Wyse,
and Microswitch. Greg set-up and managed a flex circuit production
facility. He was corporate leader of design for manufacturing,
working with major customers to integrate new technology and
process with customers design engineering. Greg also helped to
design and implement Lean Manufacturing strategy for Comptec .
Greg
also ran his own product development consulting practice, where he
worked with a number of US & European companies to assist them
with product development and patenting of products, manufacturing
strategies, and business development. He took a product
development project for FastCap L.L.C. which resulted in a six
year term with FastCap as operations manager where he helped take
FastCap go from a startup to a profitable multimillion dollar
manufacturing company.
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