Neah Power Systems

President
Chief Executive Officer

Chris heads all of Neah's operations, including engineering, marketing, and business development. He brings more than a decade in thin films processing and semiconductor technology expertise, proven track record in sales and marketing, and product introduction experience including serving as senior director of marketing at FormFactor Inc., where he headed the launch of full wafer probe cards for NAND flash and DRAM. Before FormFactor, Chris had a nine-year tenure at Novellus Systems, Inc., with positions of increasing responsibility ranging from productmanagement to technology development and sales. Some of his roles at Novellus Systems include the launch of some of the PVD products and an ALD system for tungsten deposition, Sales Account Management and core technology development. Prior to that, Chris had worked at Varian Associates and as a consultant to Intel Corporation.

He has a B.Tech. (Honors) in chemical engineering from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology in India, Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Clarkson University, NY., and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Chief Financial Officer
CPA, CMA

Mr. Wilson has 25+ years of experience in finance and accounting, most recently as CFO. Past employers include Coopers & Lybrand, Puget Sound Power and Light, Honeywell, Mutual Materials Company, Strategic Finance & Accounting Services and Impart Media Group, Inc.

Vice President
Engineering

Dr. Cross has been with Neah Power since 2007, and during this time he has served as Principal Engineer and Product Manager. Prior to Neah, Dr. Cross was a wet etch process engineer for Intel Corporation overseeing production and process flow for NOR flash memory. Before working at Intel, Dr. Cross did a post-doctorate in friction and wear phenomena of thin films for MEMS applications at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he studied MEMS fabrication and thin film synthesis techniques for polymer derived ceramics.

Director of
Manufacturing

Mr. Reiman joined Neah Power Systems in 2001 upon completing his B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering, with a focus on semiconductor processing, from the University of Washington. He started initially as a Research Engineer on porous silicon process development, electrode current collection and catalysis. During his tenure at Neah, Mr. Reiman has had roles of increasing responsibility. In his current role as Director of Manufacturing, Mr. Reiman is responsible for the silicon processing, production, cell and stack testing and quality control. As part of Neah's outsourced manufacturing model, Mr. Reiman is working with the manufacturing partners to implement a reliable supply chain, manage costs, ensure high quality and on time delivery.