MANAGEMENT TEAM
Ralph Russo, President & CEO 
Mr. Russo has 30 years experience in high-tech industry. Mr. Russo is an accomplished senior executive with over 30 years experience in a variety of business environments. He has functional experience in operations management, sales, marketing, product development, and information systems technology. He has led organizations through start-ups, turnarounds, explosive growth periods, mergers, and divestitures. Senior executive experience includes: President of Enterprise Channel Division, Nortel Networks, President Automotive Safety products SBU Allied Signal Inc., and V.P. of World-Wide Operations, Apple Computer Inc.
Qiming Zhang, Ph.D., Technical Advisor
Dr. Zhang is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Material Science Engineering at Penn State University and an IEEE fellow. As a leading expert in electroactive polymers in the world, he has over 260 publications and 9 patents in this field. He also has co-edited 4 books and contributed many chapters in electroactive polymers and related technologies. His group discovered and developed electrostrictive polymers with high strain responses, developed microfluidic devices and microactuators based on EAPs, proposed and demonstrated ultrahigh dielectric constant hybrid nanometamaterials based on delocalized electron system, and more recently, the dielectric polymers with high electric energy density for capacitor applications. His research has been funded by NIH, DOE, DOD, NSF, and many companies.
Shihai Zhang, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Zhang earned his Ph.D. degree in materials science. He was at GE Global Research Center and has over six-years experience in dielectric properties in polymer blends and polymer nanocomposites, polymer film capacitors, polymer structure-morphology-property relationships. Six Sigma quality control, over 35 publications in polymer dielectrics and blends, 5 patents filed on polymer dielectrics.
Dean Anderson, Ph.D., Vice President, Operations
Dr. Anderson has 20 years of industrial experience with capacitor and actuator materials, process and product development. He earned his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in Solid State Science. He has functional experience in research and development, engineering management, new process and product development, account management and operations management. He has over 15 years of experience in high volume process development, over 10 years in customer development and holds three patents. Management experience includes: Engineering Management at Motorola, Director of New Product Development at TRS Technologies, and Global Account Management at Flextronics.
Ailan Cheng, Ph.D., Sr. Director of Advanced Programs
Dr. Cheng directs the development of Electro-Caloric Effect based high efficiency solid-state cooling technology development.
ADVISORY BOARD
Mitchell Halpern, Ph.D.
Dr. Halpern has spent over 20 years assisting large and small companies around the world maximize the value of their technology assets. He has led major consulting efforts throughout the entire business development chain ranging from new product ideation to the development of market entry strategies and the negotiation of acquisition and licensing agreements. Before joining SPS, Dr. Halpern spent most of his career at SRI International--one of the world's largest research and consulting organizations--where he was instrumental in the expansion of the technology management and commercialization practice. Dr. Halpern received his BA with honors from Columbia University and his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
Clive W Reed
Retiree from General Electric, over 40 year experience in capacitor technology