Board of Directors
David J. Strobel - CEO and President
Mr. Strobel
adds his expertise in management of complex technologies for space and space
market penetration experience. This was gained during his 7 years as President
of Space Electronics Inc (SEi) and 18 years at SAIC and Northrop Electronics. He
built SEi from a small R&D startup company to over $13M in annual sales with 125
employees before Maxwell Technologies acquired SEi. This resulted in the Inc 500
award for Fastest Growing Companies in America two years in succession. He also
won the SBA Tibbetts Award, for SBIR excellence; with a focus on rapidly
commercializing technologies initiated under SBIR. At Sei, Strobel led 4 Phase I
and 2 Phase II contracts from NASA, Air Force and BMDO. Previously he managed IC
production for both space and military markets. As an Air Force officer he
managed R&D programs for microelectronics for the MX, SICBM, and Minuteman rad
hard missile programs. He holds two US patents for space radiation shielding.
Education: M.B.A. Claremont, M.S. Systems Management, University of Southern
California; MS Nuclear Engineering, Cornell University, BS Astronautical
Engineering, US Air Force Academy.
David R. Czajkowski - Chief Operating Officer
David
Czajkowski has over twenty years of experience in space computer
design/architecture, rad hard ASIC design, and space radiation effects
mitigation, and has co-founded two rad hard electronics manufacturers. After
co-founding Space Micro, Mr. Czajkowski led the development of technologies and
products, such as TTMR technology development and Proton100k rad hard space
computer product with greater than 1,000 MIPS performance level under support
from AFRL, SEFI mitigation of microprocessors with H-Core chip and software
under support from NASA, plus the development of the highest performance space
computer, the Proton200k, which operates at 4,000 MIPS. Previously after
co-founding SEi in 1992, he led the development of several space computer
modules (SB486R, SPARC ERC-32, and PowerPC 603E with TMR) leveraging commercial
processors, and development of single event latchup protection schemes for
sensitive ICs under support from JPL. Additional space industry experiences
include co-inventor of RAD-PAK™ radiation shielding packaging technology and
team leader for the development of over 150 different monolithic and multi-chip
module microelectronic products over the past 8 years, many of which continue to
be manufactured and sold by Maxwell Technologies who acquired SEi. Mr.
Czajkowski is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Space Micro Inc, a
company he co-founded with his partner David Strobel. David Czajkowski received
a BSEE from San Diego University in 1986 and an MBA from San Diego University in
1990. He is the holder of 5 US patents, has 7 additional patents pending and
has published numerous papers relating to radiation hardened space technologies.
Tom Baxter
Tom
Baxter joined Price Waterhouse in Los Angeles
immediately upon receiving his MBA degree from UCLA
in 1967. He spent his entire professional career
with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP until his retirement
in 2005. In the period from 1979 to 1993, Tom served
as engagement partner on a diverse population of San
Diego high tech (aerospace and defense, life
science, software, etc.) clients. He was
instrumental in securing new clients such as
Qualcomm and Callaway Golf. Tom also provided expert
witness testimony and arbitration services in
connection with various business disputes. Upon
repatriation in 1996, Tom relocated to Denver where
he served as engagement partner on a variety of
clients including Ball Corporation, CoorsTek,
Graphic Packaging International, StorageTek and
Titanium Metals. He retired from
PricewaterhouseCoopers (mandatory at age 60) in
2005. Throughout his career Tom has been a
high-energy partner who has taken the lead on
in-house training and outside speaking on business
issues, such as implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley
Section 404 and Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board. He was a founding sponsor of the Denver
Chapter of National Association of Corporate
Directors and its predecessor, The Directors Guild.
Dr. Martha Dennis
During
her 35-year career Dr. Martha Dennis has been a
telecommunications technologist and entrepreneur as
well as a venture capitalist. Most recently she was
with Windward Ventures. Ms. Dennis co-founded
Pacific Communications Sciences, Inc., and Waveware
Communications after heading up software development
at Linkabit Corp. She serves on the advisory boards
of several San Diego companies and chairs the board
of NetSapiens. She also chairs the San Diego
Commission on Science and Technology and is
immediate past President of the Reuben H. Fleet
Science Center. She is past President of Commnexus,
the Bishops School and UCSD Athena. She serves on
the boards of Harvey Mudd College, the San Diego
Foundation, and the San Diego Regional Chamber of
Commerce, and on the advisory boards of the UCSD
Rady School of Management, the SDSU College of
Engineering, and the Smith College Picker
Engineering Program. Her doctorate is in Applied
Mathematics from Harvard University.
Mark Gudaitis
Mr. Gudaitis has over 20 years of experience in NASA, DoD, Homeland Defense, and commercial space markets including business development, technology and product development, program management, and new start-up management. Experience at Rockwell, SUS Technologies, Boeing and Panavision. Education: BS, Muhlenberg College, Mathematics, MS, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, Applied Mathematics and Engineering, PhD. University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering, MBA, University of Southern California, Business Management.
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