Harry Burns - Chief Executive Officer

As President and Chief Executive Officer, Harry A. Burns, has over thirty years experience as a senior executive in industry. He has served as CEO of an international manufacturing company with revenues in excess of $500 million and is experienced with the start up of new technology spin-off companies and the commercialization of new technologies.

Haydn Wadley - Scientific Advisor

DVTI is fortunate to have as a part of its management team a number of researchers who have been instrumental in developing cellular materials technology, including Professor Haydn Wadley, an advisor to the company. Dr. Wadley is Professor of Material Science Engineering and Associate Dean of Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at UVa and has published (or has in press) 265 papers in referred journals and conference proceedings. He is the co-editor or co-author of seven books and the holder of five US patents (six additional patents are pending).

Derek Hass - Director of Research and Development

Dr. Derek Hass received a B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 1993. A M.S. degree was received from the University of Virginia in 1996 and a Ph. D. degree in 2001. From 2001-2002 he was employed as a research scientist in the Intelligent Processing of Materials Laboratory at the University of Virginia. His research interests include the development of a novel electron beam-directed vapor deposition (EB-DVD) technique. He is also involved in the development of combinatorial synthesis techniques using DVD. Dr Hass is currently the P.I. on multiple government research contracts for DVTI, has published 9 papers and is an inventor on 6 pending patents.

Susie Eustis - Research Scientist

Dr. Susie Eustis received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2000. A Ph. D. degree was received from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006 in Physical Chemistry, specializing in nanotechnology. From 2006-2008 she was employed as a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Her research interests include the development of nanostructured particles and thin films for applications in medicine, optical components, and energy devices. She is involved in the development of the DVD technology for many commercial applications. Dr. Eustis has published 15 papers, 3 of which have been on the journals "most accessed" or "hot article" list.

Balvinder Gogia - Research Scientist

Dr. Balvinder Gogia has more than 15 years of industry and research experience in the fields of thin film deposition and nanotechnology. She has an extensive background with technology maturation and process development for superconducting metal and ceramic films and nanomaterials. While employed by the National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research (Tsukuba, Japan), Dr. Gogia developed an innovative method for the synthesis of carbon nanotubes by laser ablation of undoped and doped silicon-carbide. She has managed several process development efforts, including an improved sputtering deposition process for Multilayer Thin Film Coatings used to enhance the quality of superconducting tapes. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Panjab University (Chandigarh, India) and Ph.D. in Physics and Material Science from the Indian Institute of Technology. Her research interests include development of thin film coating processes for commercial applications. She has published more than 35 research papers in international journals. Dr. Gogia leads several technology development teams in non-line-of-sight coating and superconducting films at DVTI.

Dan Christy - Assistant Research Scientist

Paul Muskopf - Engineer

Brian Muszynski - Head of Coater Operations

Daniel Lobo - Engineer

Matthew Terry - Manager of Programs and Administration

Eric Young - Manager of Commercialization and Program Transition

Kim Mitchell - Financial & HR Administrator