Harvesting the Sun
Harvesting the Sun
Dan Shea has been in technology industries for 40 years, much of it in executive management, including his 27 years at IBM/Celestica, where he was Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer. Dan was Senior Vice President at BlackBerry, President and CEO at Arise Technologies Corporation (Solar), COO at Infobright (Database), and is a senior advisor and investor in 3E Nano Inc (Nanotech). Dan has a BScEng from the University of Toronto.
Sjoerd has ten year's of experience in business development, R&D, and management of scientific research projects in the fields of nanotechnology, photovoltaics, photonics, and photodetectors leveraging extensive laboratory experience in industry and research institutes. He was the Principal Scientist and Manager of R&D at InVisage Technologies Inc., a quantum dot-based imaging product company sold to Apple Inc. in 2017. He was the Director of Research, Technology and Innovation at the University of Toronto. He was awarded a Top 50 Scientific Discoveries by NSERC for the development of a solution-processed infrared laser. Sjoerd has an MSC in physics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a PhD in laser physics from the University of Southampton.
Armin’s career has focused on nanotechnology-based R&D and its commercialization, particularly product development from concept to production of multidisciplinary, cutting-edge technology projects and typically across functional organizations in both Europe and North America. He was a founding scientist at InVisage Technologies Inc., a quantum dot-based imaging product company sold to Apple Inc. in 2017. He was the Head of R&D at Lumotune Inc., a nanotech shutters and screens company. He also served as an Associate Director at Creative Destruction Lab, an international competitive start-up mentoring program that has propelled many high-tech ventures in Canada and abroad. Armin holds a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the Max Planck Society in Germany and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Ted Sargent is a university professor and VP-International at the University of Toronto. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the AAAS, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He has held visiting professorships at MIT, UCLA, Berkeley, and Harvard. He is the author of The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives (Penguin 2005). His papers have been cited 43,000 times, and 105 of his papers have been cited more than 105 times. Ted is the head of the Sargent Group, has a BScEng. (Engineering Physics) from Queen’s University and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Photonics) from the University of Toronto.