I have been a consultant, entrepreneur and teacher all of my life. Over the last 45 years, I have successfully founded and built three high technology companies - one in medical immunodiagnostics; one in manufacturing and installing microprocessor based energy conservation systems; and one in medical devices. I have had to meet weekly payrolls, the true test of an entrepreneur. I built and sold my first company, Princeton Laboratories, Inc. to Carter-Wallace, Inc. in 1974 after bringing out one of the first Over-the-Counter pregnancy tests, Answer (still in your local drugstore). I remained with Carter-Wallace as Corporate Vice President of Corporate Development until founding Aegis Systems Corporation in 1977. (Reached over $50.0 million in product line installation and sales, and sold privately 10 years later) The decade of the 1990’s was devoted to wireless communication, on-line software and direct response healthcare ventures.

Before Princeton Laboratories, I was a senior technology consultant with The Diebold Group (concentrating on computer applications to businesses and forecasting technological trends and their impact on industries), and I bought and sold companies as a V.P. - Corporate Development of The Reliance Group. In parallel with my business ventures, from 1977 on, I have managed a top level business consulting company, The Aegis Group, Inc. in Princeton, NJ providing new venture, market and product analyses, corporate planning, valuation studies, and M & A advise for Fortune 500 companies and Wall Street Firms … and raising venture capital for new ventures.

I have always looking to the future and to a new world order. My interests and ventures have been on the frontiers of technology and society attempting to change the ways in which we live for the better. My interest in nanotechnology has been intense over the last three years and, having found confusion, misunderstanding and hype around my investigation of nanotechnology, I bring my over 45 years of solid venture and new technology entrepreneurial business experience, insights and analyses to NanoClarity. It is a much-needed product.

I have a BS in Electrical Engineering in computers from MIT and an MBA from Harvard. Throughout my career, I have chaired and conducted numerous seminars and panels. Recently, I have acted as an advisor to Teach for America's The New Teacher Project and to Donor's Choose, a new classroom supplemental financing initiative. In the middle 1990s, I was a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University teaching a seminar in Technological Entrepreneurism.

My passions are cosmology (a natural outgrowth of living and teaching in Princeton, N.J., the heart and soul of cosmology), tennis and lacrosse. Each spring I coach varsity lacrosse at St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, N.J.

I live with my wonderful wife and partner, Lynn Jericho, a personal counselor, lecturer and author of Ground Zero and The Human Soul; The Search for the New Ordinary Life which she and a partner published soon after 9/11 and after we had seen from our deck in Jersey City just across the Hudson River the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers.

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