Nanocomp - Management

Peter L. Antoinette: Co-founder, President & Chief Executive Officer

Peter L. Antoinette

Peter has more than 25 years experience in sales, marketing, and executive business management initially in Fortune 500 corporations and more recently in small companies and start-ups. Prior to co-founding Nanocomp Technologies, Peter was the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Cambridge Research & Instrumentation Inc., a Massachusetts based early stage liquid crystal technology company. As its first business CEO, he transformed a decade old, family owned, “R&D/SBIR shop” into a vibrant hi-tech company, commercializing major new products that positioned the company in high-value telecommunications, photonics, and research markets. Under his management he raised several rounds of investment capital, with dramatic step-ups in shareholder value, quadrupled orders, and grew the company from 12 to 60 employees in three years. His prior experience in large companies included a 15 year career at Millipore Corporation, a Massachusetts based Fortune 500 instrument and separations company, where he capped time there as a Vice President and Division General Manager establishing and growing an instrumentation and software based technology business unit. He also held a number of management, sales, and marketing positions in various Millipore divisions. developing and marketing new products for the life science, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor process market domestically and overseas. Prior to Millipore he worked for CR Bard and Pfizer in sales positions. He received a bachelor of science degree in biology, has authored several technical publications, and holds one patent.

David Lashmore, Ph.D.: Co-founder, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer

David Lashmore, Ph.D.

David is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of superlattices, alloys, and material science. He received a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Virginia. He is the holder of more than 40 issued and pending patents, has authored more than 75 scientific publications, and has chaired numerous scientific meetings and symposia. David spent sixteen years at the National Institute for Standards and Technologies in Washington DC, as the Group Leader in the Metallurgy Division where he led the development of many industrial materials reference standards.

Following his tenure at NIST, he was a co-founder of Microproperties Inc., Materials Innovation Inc., and Innovative Dental Materials Inc. His industrial accomplishments include development of volume manufacturing and coating technologies for micro-particles and fibers; development of novel materials for advanced energy applications; and the development of novel methods for the growth and fabrication of carbon nanotubes and related nanostructures including applications for these novel materials. David has been awarded the AESF ElectroDeposition Award, the Electrochemical Society Research Award, and The Blum Award from the Electrochemical Society.

Mark A. Banash, Ph.D.: Vice President of Engineering

Mark A. Banash, Ph.D.

With more than 20 years of experience in the chemicals and advanced materials industries, Mark has held a variety of positions ranging from basic research through product development to full-scale manufacturing.

Prior to Nanocomp, Mark was with Zyvex Corporation, where he was director for production and quality of the company’s nanomaterial products. He managed all manufacturing operations including pilot plant design and construction and also invented a supply chain certification process to assure customers of receiving quality carbon nanotubes. Mark also led the firm to ISO:9001 registration by creating a quality management system that ensured customer specifications were built into nanotube-based products.

Before Zyvex, Mark was a senior scientist at Millennium Chemicals and worked extensively on product development and manufacturing issues related to the incorporation of the company’s pigment products in a variety of polymer matrices. He also used statistically designed experiments to discover key processing variables related to product performance and quality characteristics.   He was also a research scientist with EniChem America where he developed and field-tested new types of optical glass and ultra-tough ceramic coatings.  As a senior scientist with the Rohm & Haas Company he gained extensive knowledge of controlling formulation and process chemistry to ensure the company’s biocidal products met performance goals.

Mark holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland University College, and a B.A. with honors in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an adjunct faculty member in operations and technology management at the University of Maryland University College.   He is also a member of the American Society for Quality and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.

John H. Dorr: Vice President of Business Development

John H. Dorr

John is an accomplished executive with over 30 years of hands-on operational experience in a variety of sales, marketing, and engineering leadership roles.

Prior to joining Nanocomp, John was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for DTC Communications, a Cobham plc company, where he oversaw record orders performance selling microwave communications products to the DoD robotics and military/law enforcement surveillance market. In addition, John was part of the executive team responsible for achieving the company’s initial ISO 9001:2000 registration.

Before DTC, John was the Vice President of Marketing for Viisage Technology, where he successfully led a major re-branding and product launch of the company’s technology. While at Viisage, John participated in a number of M&A transactions as a key member of the management team.

John also has a demonstrated track record in start-up environments. He initiated and led the product management function for Cerulean Technology, a wireless communications software company. As Vice President of Marketing, John was instrumental in leading the company’s growth from 75 to over 3000 customers, which was a vital contributing factor to the successful sale of Cerulean to Aether Systems for $150M.