Barry N. Breen, Chief Executive Officer.
A thin film process development expert, Barry worked for 16 years in
senior positions at AVX Corporation (NYSE: AVX) where he helped build a
small development facility in Israel into a 600-employee R&D and
manufacturing company producing thin film passive devices. Prior to
AVX, Barry was an engineer at General Electric in the United States. A
native of St. Louis, Missouri, Barry holds a B.Sc. in Nuclear
Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has 6
issued and several pending patents. Barry authored 10 academic
published papers and 2 Kyocera Conference papers. Barry was awarded the
Kaplan Prize in 1994 for excellence in industrial development. In 1998,
he was awarded the Kyocera Corporation President Award for outstanding
achievement in product & business development.
Dr. Jonathan Goldstein, Founder, President and Chief Scientist.
Jonathan is an electrochemist with specialization in fuel cells, solar
energy, energy conversion, hydrogen storage, electroplating and
materials. Jonathan has been President and Chief Scientist of the
Company since its founding in 2003. Jonathan served as a senior
scientist at LUZ Industries, a pioneering company in the solar energy
industry, and served as Chief Scientist of the LUZ affiliated company,
Electric Fuel. From 1977 to 1989, Jonathan served as the senior battery
scientist at Tadiran Ltd., Israel's flagship electronics company.
Jonathan was born in the UK, and received his Ph.D in Chemistry from
City University, London, specializing in fuel cell chemistry. He holds
38 granted US patents, and has published/delivered more than 30
scientific papers. Jonathan was a Session Chairman at the International
Battery Symposium at Nagoya, Japan in 1998, and Session Chairman at the
Renewable Energy World Congress in Brighton, England in 2000.
