Zone Reactor's team brings experience from
both the corporate and the new venture worlds as well as extensive
experience across many technology areas.
Dr. Greg Petrisor
Gregory Petrisor, Ph.D., assesses the maturity and technical risks
associated with commercialization of prospective technologies. Recently,
Dr. Petrisor has been serving as a technical consultant in the areas of
systems engineering, algorithm development, and software design, development
and implementation, with an emphasis on signal and image processing.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Petrisor spent 15 years at Raytheon (formerly Hughes
Aircraft company), where he managed large, multidisciplinary technical
teams developing multi-sensor image exploitation systems. He holds Bachelor
of Science, summa cum laude, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy
degrees in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Mathematics, from University
of Southern California. His Doctoral Thesis focused on the optical implementation
of artificial neural networks.
Mr. Ryan Perdue
Mr. Perdue has extensive experience assessing technologies and new ventures.
Mr. Perdue has held associate positions at two venture capital firms, Sterling
Venture Partners and Monitor Ventures where he sourced and analyzed
prospective deals. As a consultant for Monitor Group, Mr. Perdue has worked with
a variety of Fortune 1000 companies in identifying new business opportunities
and ways of driving growth. Mr. Perdue holds a Bachelor of Science, cum laude,
in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College.
Mr. Charles D. Bohle
Mr. Bohle has had extensive experience as an executive in private industry, management consultant, and as an executive coach. His industry experience encompassed executive level positions with a number of major companies within the manufacturing, distribution and after-market service and support sectors. Mr. Bohle's experience includes organizations ranging in sales from $3 million to several billion.
Mr. Bohle operates in a hands-on mode with all levels of management to implement practical solutions to improve operational capabilities. He provides the extra set of eyes that can look past what appears to be obvious and identify the systemic underlying root causes of problems. His past experience indicates that major improvements to bottom line performance can often be gained without significant investments.
Mr. Bohle acquired a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley California. Subsequently, he obtained a Masters degree in Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles. Mr. Bohle's also attended a number of company sponsored formal management development courses, including the Lockheed Management Institute, as well as specific technical seminars.
Mr. Scot Reader
Scot Reader is a registered patent attorney and a member of the California bar. He was graduated magna cum laude in Aerospace Engineering from USC and holds a J.D. from the USC Law Center. Prior to starting his own firm in 2001 specializing in telecommunications patents, he was Lead IP Counsel for the e-Business Group of Alcatel where he directed IP strategy for Alcatel’s billion dollar enterprise switching, enterprise applications and mobile phone businesses. Before his tenure at Alcatel, Mr. Reader was Chief Patent Counsel for Xylan Corporation, a startup that was eventually acquired by Alcatel in 1999 for $2 billion. Prior to that, Mr. Reader was a litigation associate at Lyon & Lyon, then the largest patent law firm on the West Coast. He is himself a patent holder and his articles have been published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy and The Licensing Journal.
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