RAPT Industries Company Profile

Board of Directors

Ms. Ramona Alves (Co-founder) - Ramona E. Alves was President and Chief Executive Officer of CHAT Communication Services (CCS), a company she founded in 1986. CCS grew over 17 years to become a 150 employee, $17 million enterprise. With the collapse of the Telecom Market, CCS, as well as other suppliers, lost vast amounts of revenue; unable to recover, CCS closed it’s doors in 2004. Ms. Alves is currently consulting in the field of Process Development/Management for Telecom Vendors.

Dr. Jeffrey Carr (Co-founder) (Ph.D. – Chemistry, University of Utah, 1986) – Inventor of the RAP process and a leading expert in the field of polishing technology and plasma processing. A veteran of IBM, including 7 years in the Research Division at Yorktown Heights, Dr. Carr joined LLNL - Engineering Directorate in 1997. He has authored 22 technical reports and peer-reviewed papers on the subject of precision machining, etching/polishing technologies and plasma chemistry. In 1998, Dr. Carr was elected as Secretary for the Precision Engineering Society. His previous technical accomplishments include the first IBM patent on copper chemical/mechanical polishing for circuitry manufacturing.

Mr. Robert Colman Rob Colman is the President of Olympic Precision, Inc., based in Hanover, New Hampshire. OLI engages in research and development of high precision equipment and manufacturing technologies used by the Department of Defense and other government entities, and by industrial providers. Mr. Colman has thirty years of diversified management and advisory experience with major corporations and smaller entrepreneurial ventures. He founded and served as Chairman/CEO of Oxford Energy Company, an American Stock Exchange Company. Under his leadership, Oxford grew to $300 million in assets. Mr. Colman has structured and participated in venturing arrangements with General Electric Company, Ogden Corporation, Haliburton Inc., Zurn Industries, Niagara Mohawk, Southwest Public Service and others.

Dr. Peter S. Fiske (Co-founder and VP Business Development) (MBA - U.C. Berkeley, 2002, Ph.D. - Stanford University 1993) Prior to starting RAPT, Dr. Fiske led a research team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in condensed matter physics. His business plan for RAPT Industries won First Place at the 2001 U.C. Berkeley Business Plan Competition. He is the author of 20 technical articles in leading scientific journals including SCIENCE and 2 books. In 1996 Dr. Fiske was awarded a White House Fellowship and served in the Pentagon as Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Projects. His other awards include an NSF Graduate Fellowship (1988-91), a STA Fellowship by the government of Japan (1995), the U.S. Department of Defense Outstanding Achievement Award (1997) and an Aspen Scholarship at the Aspen Institute in 2001. Dr. Fiske was CEO of the Company from May, 2001 to April, 2004.

Mr. Danforth Joslyn Joslyn is a founding member of Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. (OCLI), Santa Rosa, California. The company, now a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase, specializes in precision optics and vacuum deposited thin films. OCLI markets include communications, medical devices, security products and aerospace. During his career at OCLI, Mr. Joslyn served as President and Chief Operations Officer, Director and a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Joslyn also served as CEO and President of Flex Products, Inc., a subsidiary of OCLI. He organized and headed the European and Far Eastern Operations for OCLI. During his career at OCLI, Mr. Joslyn focused his efforts on new business opportunities development and operations. He was responsible for all licensing activities and negotiating major contracts, including mergers and acquisitions. He also organized, implemented, and managed the intellectual property program at OCLI and again at Flex products. Mr. Joslyn was also President of Applied Solar Energy Corporation, a subsidiary of OCLI. Applied Solar Energy manufactured silicon and gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells for space and terrestrial power generation applications. Mr. Joslyn served as Director and CEO of four start-up companies, all of which were successful. Mr. Joslyn brings many years of broad-based management experience to RAPT. Since OCLI, Mr. Joslyn has worked exclusively with early stage companies. Mr. Joslyn holds a B.S. and a J.D. from George Washington University.

Dr. Pradeep Subrahmanyan – CEO - Dr. Pradeep Subrahmanyan has 11 years experience in various aspects of precision engineering from motion control, actuator design and laser materials processing. Dr. Subrahmanyan graduated with his Ph.D. from MIT and worked at Seagate Technology on magnetic recording technology. Subsequently, he worked at Electro Scientific Industries leading technology and business activities in laser micromachining and laser trimming. He was also responsible for creating a company-wide common platform architecture which is being adopted across business units. Dr. Subrahmanyan has extensive experience in process simulation and development, product development and technical marketing. He has authored two issued patents and has 9 patents pending besides invited publications at various technical conferences.