Thomas J. Dee
Chairman and CEO, Inventor and Founder
Tom has over 30 years of business experience, nearly 26 years of which were with
Ionics, Inc. At Ionics Tom provided international sales support for over
$100 million of water treatment projects, built a bottled water delivery business
from inception to 100,000 customers, and concluded 11 acquisitions. The business
was sold to Perrier for $220 million. Tom also worked with all senior management
providing strategic assessments of technology, licensing opportunities, acquisitions
and business modeling of complex BOO (Build-Own-Operate) projects. Ionics was
acquired by General Electric for $1.3 billion.
Norman Strate
President
During Norm’s 40 year career, he has filled executive and/or Board
positions with Hertz, Showtime, RCA J.F. Jelenko, Nucon Holdings, API,
Talon, Protonex and Strategic Insights, among others. Norm is currently
or has been a member of the Board of Advisors MIT Entrepreneurship Advisory
Group, Board of Directors of National Dentex, Lehigh University Alumni
Association, W. J. Gies Foundation, Board of Fellows of Harvard University
School of Dental Medicine, and the Board of Trustees of Cushing Academy.
Norm has successfully started companies, taken companies public, engineered
turn-arounds, and has provided business guidance to a wide variety of
entrepreneurs.
Barry Clapp
Executive Vice President
Barry has 30+ years of experience and an exceptional track record in
a variety of companies successfully building revenues, raising capital
and establishing strategic alliances both in the USA and internationally.
Barry started at IBM, where he sold enterprise systems to FORTUNE100
companies and exceeded quotas by 175%. At Management Decision Systems
he helped build the business to greater than $25 million in sales. He
started and built the International business for Cortex Corporation,
subsequently assuming responsibility for worldwide sales and marketing.
He was Principal in Champion Marketing, a consulting company that specialized
in implementing sales and marketing organizations and strategic partnerships
for early stage technology companies.
He was President and CEO of Source Recovery Company, which was sold
to Allen Systems in 2000, and, President of Value Benefits, a provider
of web based infrastructure technology for large HMOs and insurance companies.
Barry also headed Worldwide Sales for Advanced Electron Beams, a maker
of electron beam generation equipment for the environmental and sterilization
industries. Most recently, Barry headed international sales for DigitalGlobe,
a satellite imagery company, responsible for over $25 million in annual
sales, which he had growing at 50% upon his departure.
Barry holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing from Nichols College,
and an MBA from Babson College. |
