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Charlie has a MS and PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from Virginia Tech and a BS in Physics from Fordham University. He spent several years in the Vaste-Stoffysika en Magnetisme Group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and Argonne National Labs working on the electrical, magnetic and structural properties of superconducting and magnetic thin films and multilayers. He entered industry as an recording head designer for Seagate, later managing the Advanced Recording Technology group.

Since then, he has designed and built system level hardware and software architectures for various sized companies from startups to mid-cap companies both as an employee and consultant. Prior to Ionographics, Charlie spent the last three years as CTO for Johnstech International managing the development of test sockets for semiconductor final test. Charlie has 35 papers in peer reviewed journals, and 4 issued patents.

Jeff graduated with his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington in 1996, and went to work at a start-up called Twenty-First Century Research where he was responsible for the design, construction, and initialization of a $500K laboratory scale continuous reactor facility for a proprietary hydrocarbon oxidation process. From 1999-2002, Jeff worked for Intel as a Senior Process Engineer on thin-film vapor deposition tools.

In 2002, he entered the Chemical Engineering graduate program at UW, where he published five refereed papers on Ionographics' core technology: Electrochemical Printing. During graduate school, he took part in the University of Washington's Technology Entrepreneurship program and participated in the 2007 UW Business Plan Competition, where his team won the Slipstream Design Prototype Award. He completed his PhD work in June 2007 and started Ionographics a few months later.

Dan began his first venture in 1992 at the age of 18, ending in 1994 when he left college and joined the armed forces. After serving he returned to the University of Washington and completed his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering in 2000. Dan has worked on several DOE and DOD classified projects at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, as well as on the ATLAS project for CERN in the area of experimental particle physics.

Dan again returned to the University of Washington and received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2006. His graduate work involved combining biological macromolecules into patterning agents for nano- scale fabrication techniques. During this time he developed a thin film fabrication technology (U.S. Patent #7348570) intended for "preparation free" transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and has since been commercialized. Dan has hundreds of hours of experience with scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS).