MANAGEMENT TEAM

ORFID's executive management team includes managers drawn from Convergent Ventures and from the semiconductor, materials and electronics industries. Executives include:

Jonathan G. Lasch, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board of ORFID Corporation has more than 25 years of experience leading science and technology evaluation and development in the fields of biomedical instruments and systems, biotechnology, chemistry and materials science. Additionally, he was a Managing Director for Convergent Ventures and a Director of Neurion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a CV portfolio company, of which he was the founding CEO. He was co-founder, President and CEO of Materia, Inc., a materials science company spun out of The California Institute of Technology. Also, he was Vice President of Business Development of Cyrano Sciences, Inc., a Caltech spinout based on chemical sensor technology. Prior to Cyrano, Dr. Lasch was Vice President, Technology Development for The Scripps Research Institute, the largest not–for-profit biomedical research institute in the United States. Previously, he was Director of Research, Biotechnology for PPG Industries. Dr. Lasch is the Director of the Alfred E. Mann Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California, as well as Venture Advisor at Convergent Ventures. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Texas at El Paso.

Winn Hong, President and CEO of ORFID Corporation, is an experienced technology development engineer, business development manager and entrepreneur. Prior to joining ORFID, Mr. Hong was VP of Business and Product Development at Genefluidics, Inc., a medical diagnostic device company that integrates nanobiotechnology and microfluidics into a molecular analysis platform. Mr. Hong also helped to found Sega.com, Inc., a global on-line gaming company. He was VP of Business Development and interim COO at Sega.com Asia, Inc, and was responsible for setting up Sega.com Asia’s Asian headquarter and expanding the company’s on-line gaming services within Asia. Mr. Hong was also responsible for developing strategic partnerships and joint ventures. Previously, Mr. Hong was a research scientist at Jet Propulsion Lab, a NASA research lab, where he conducted research on infrared photo-detectors for deep space exploration and medical imaging. Mr. Hong received a patent for the fabrication of these novel infrared sensors, which were used for deep-space monitoring and for search and rescue efforts during the 1996 Santa Monica Mountain forest fire. Mr. Hong received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and both a B.S in aerospace engineering and a M.S. in mechanical engineering from UCLA with emphasis on MEMS-based medical devices and biomedical engineering.

David Margolese, Ph.D., Vice President and CTO of ORFID Corporation has more than 20 years experience developing new materials and technologies in the semiconductor and related industries. Previously, Dr. Margolese was employed at Systine, Inc., a start-up company in Pasadena, California, as both Principle Investigator and Senior Scientist on a nanotechnology program to develop displays based on nanoparticles. In addition, for Systine, he was the lead design and build engineer in the development of a novel plasma tool that etched semiconductor materials damage-free, an enabling technology that will allow the fabrication of semiconductor devices on the nano length scale. He spent many years as a multidisciplinary researcher in the field of ceramics and nanotechnology, which included the fabrication of semiconductor, magnetic, and metallic nanoparticles, and self assembling mesoporous systems used as nanoparticle containment vessels, hosts for proteins, and acid catalysts. He is a co-Founder of Semzyme, Inc., a venture-backed start up company whose technology uses viruses in order to manufacture materials. Previously, Dr. Margolese worked at the TRW Microelectronics Center as a semiconductor development engineer on low temperature fabrication techniques for the development of transistors. He was staff scientist for a start-up company where he designed and built xenon laser manufacturing stations and worked on the development of laser-induced CVD processes to correct microscopic defects on photomasks. Dr. Margolese received his Ph.D. in the field of inorganic chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara, his M.S. from the University of Oregon, and his B.S. from UCLA both in chemistry.

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