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Dr.
Jerry Fanucci - President, CTO
Dr. Fanucci
is a MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Ph.D, where
he also earned a M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering. He
graduated with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from
West Virginia university, first in a class of 4,000. Jerry
has over 25 years experience in composite design, material
selection and development of unusual, automated composite
processing systems. He has considerable background
in military application of composites, including management
of development efforts for military shelters requiring
ballistic protection while a Senior Technical Specialist
at the US Army Natick RDEC.
He founded KaZaK in 1992, principally
working on SBIR contract awards. The company
has excelled over the years in solving complex materials
applications challenges and has built a solid R & D
reputation in technical military circles. Dr.
Fanucci has many patents in the area of composites
and pultrusion
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John
Schickling - Executive Vice President, COO & CFO
Mr. Schickling
brings to KaZaK extensive financial and operational
experience, for both domestic and international operations.
Previously, John was CFO for Phase Forward (Nasdaq:
PFWD) a Massachusetts-based global software developer
and service provider to the pharmaceutical industry,
where he lead the IPO in 2004. Prior to
Phase Forward, he was SVP CFO at Mobile Systems International
(London), a global software developer and service provider
for the telecommunications/cellular industry where
he had extensive experience in merger and acquisition
activity as well as international operations. Before
MSI, he was SVP CFO at PRI Automation - a semiconductor
capital equipment manufacturer, where he managed a
successful IPO as the company grew from $7.5MM in revenues
to an annual run rate of $170MM. He was a founder and
COO/CFO of Telesis Systems - a successful CAE/CAD company
of the early 1980's. He spent 14 years with General
Electric and is a graduate of GE's Financial Management
Program.
John was a long time faculty member of the Northeastern University Graduate School
of Business. He holds an MBA from Babson College in Massachusetts. He is
also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. John serves on the Board of Directors of Pharsight Corporation (NASDAQ: PHST) and is on the Board of Trustees of St. Mary's High School in Lynn, MA and he also has been a Board member of KaZaK since
its inception..
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Dr. Brian Smith - Director of Engineering
Dr. Brian Smith holds a Ph.D and MS in
Materials Science & Engineering from
the Lehigh University. His undergraduate degree is
from Worcester Polytechnical Institute in Mechanical
Engineering. Dr. Smith brings over 20 years of
experience in the material sciences. He
has extensive experience in engineering and project
management, manufacturing production as well as the
commercialization of developing technologies. Previously,
Brian was VP of Product Research and Development at
Applied Materials Science, Inc. in Concord, MA where
he developed a low cost investment casting process
for metal matrix composite materials. Prior to Applied
Materials Sciences, he was Manager, Materials & Process
Engineering at Starmet Corporation, and prior to Starmet,
he was a research engineer at Nuclear Metals, Inc.
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Susan
Ricci - Director of Human Resources
Ms. Ricci
is responsible for managing all aspects of human resources
including employee relations, benefits administration,
policy development, and recruiting. She has over twenty
years of human resources experience in health care,
manufacturing, and service industries. Prior to KaZaK,
Susan worked for over 10 years managing human resource
functions in the healthcare industry. In
addition, she has held various human resources positions
in the high tech, manufacturing and insurance industries.
Ms. Ricci received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Massachusetts. |
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