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Management and Key Staff
Management
Mr. Richard (Dick) Hitt,
President and CEO
Dr. Oleg Mukhanov, Senior Vice President
and General Manger
Dr. Deepnarayan Gupta, Vice President, Research and
Development
Dr. Masoud Radparvar, Vice President, Engineering
Mr. Paul E. Donofrio Chief Financial Officer
Key Staff
Mr. Art Earl, Director of Strategic Business Development
Dr. Sergey K. Tolpygo, Director of
Fabrication
Dr. Steve Kaplan, Senior Scientist
Mr. Alex Kirichenko, Senior Circuit Designer
Consulting Partner
Dr. Elie K. Track, Senior Partner
Mr. Richard E. Hitt, Jr.,
President and CEO, joined HYPRES in January of 2003 as Vice President and
General Manager of Government Products and Systems. He was appointed as President and CEO of
HYPRES in July 2005. Mr. Hitt joined
HYPRES from Raytheon where he was Director of Joint Tactical Radio Systems
(JTRS) Programs, responsible for the pursuit of approximately $6 Billion in
sales. Prior to that assignment, Mr.
Hitt was the Director of Business Development for Raytheon Radios and
Terminals, a $400 Million/year business, with a staff of 18 and a
discretionary budget of about $18 Million. Mr. Hitt is a retired Air Force
officer with over 13 years in defense and government business experience in
his second career. He has held senior
leadership positions with EG&G of Boston, MA and Mnemonics, Inc. of Melbourne, FL
in addition to Raytheon. His Air Force
career included extensive time as a senior program manager in the advanced
technology Headquarters Air Force TENCAP program, involved in bringing new
Space command, control, and communications technologies to tactical combat
units. His commercial experience is
primarily in bringing new technologies to mainstream production product lines
and programs. His education includes
an undergraduate degree in Economics from Chapman
University, Orange, CA
and a graduate degree in Systems Engineering from the Air Force Institute of
Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
Mr. Hitt is also a graduate of the DoD Senior Program Manager Course, Defense Systems
Management College,
Ft. Belvoir, VA
and the senior leadership course at the University
of Chicago, School of Business.
Dr. Oleg Mukhanov, Senior Vice President and General Manager for
government operations, joined HYPRES, Inc. in April 1991 as a Superconductive
Integrated Circuit Designer to initiate the development of digital circuits
based on Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic family. He is currently VP of
Technology at HYPRES responsible for coordination of all technical areas:
circuit design, test, fabrication, cryopackaging, and system integration. Dr.
Mukhanov has initiated and been involved in multiplicity of HYPRES projects
including development of high-performance A/D, D/A, and T/D converters, Fast
Fourier Transform (FFT) hardware, a sub-nanosecond access time RAM, and
ultra-high speed digital filters for a variety of applications including
communications, radar, EW, and instrumentation. Prior to joining HYPRES, he
was a staff scientist at the Cryoelectronics Laboratory at the Moscow State University,
where he worked on the single-flux-quantum digital devices since 1984. Dr.
Mukhanov is a co-inventor of the RSFQ logic and was the designer of a number
of the world’s fastest digital circuits. Dr. Mukhanov is a Senior Member of
the IEEE, authored over seventy scientific papers and several patents. He was
president of the US Committee on Superconducting Electronics in 2005-2007,
member of many organizing and program committees of national and
international superconductor electronics conferences. Dr. Mukhanov is board
member of the Applied Superconductivity Conference, member of Advisory
Committee of IEEE Council on Superconductivity, and editor of IEEE
Transactions of Applied Superconductivity. He received his Ph.D. in Physics
from Moscow State University
in 1987 and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Moscow Engineering Physics
Institute in 1983.
Dr. Deepnarayan Gupta,Vice President, Research and
Development, joined HYPRES in 1997 as a Member of Technical Staff. He has been
instrumental in defining HYPRES’ development strategy to focus on small-scale
digital-RF systems using superconductor integrated circuits and multi-chip
modules, and creating a multi-faceted program with multiple, synergistic
research and development (R&D) projects. At HYPRES, Dr. Gupta has
initiated and led over 40 R&D projects in superconductor digital
electronic circuits and systems. Prior to joining HYPRES, Dr. Gupta was a
post-doctoral research affiliate at Stanford University,
working on hybrid superconductor-semiconductor electronics. He received a B.
Tech. in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1990, followed by an M.S. and a Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Rochester in 1992
and 1995 respectively. Dr. Gupta, a senior member of the IEEE, is a coauthor
of over 40 articles, holds five patents and has five patents pending.
Dr. Masoud Radparvar, Vice President, Engineering, joined
HYPRES in 1984. He has worked on all aspects (design, simulation, layout,
fabrication and evaluation) of superconducting-based circuits. His expertise,
in addition to superconductivity, includes circuit design, thin film growth
by various techniques, patterning by photolithography and reactive ion
etching, low temperature (cryogenic) techniques and low noise measurements.
He developed and demonstrated the first analog to digital converter in the
NbN technology operating at 9.5 K and engaged in the design and development
of a niobium process for superconducting circuits integrated in the fastest
Time Domain Reflectometer/Sampling oscilloscope. Prior to joining HYPRES, Dr.
Radparvar was at the University
of Wisconsin, where he
earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Solid State Electronics).
Mr. Paul E. Donofrio, Chief Financial Officer, joined HYPRES in June 2010. He is responsible for developing, managing and leading the Company’s financial strategy as it continues to grow and engage in new market opportunities. Mr. Donofrio has more than 25 years experience as a financial executive that includes strategic management, finance, accounting, audit, taxation, investor relations, staff development, human resources, information technology, and merger and acquisition activity. Prior to joining HYPRES, Mr. Donofrio served as Chief Financial Officer of The Innovative Companies LLC (New York) where he was responsible for finance, accounting, human resources and information technology operations of this $200M in sales/year privately held business. He has also held executive, operating, financial and administrative leadership positions with privately held as well as public organizations at Andrea Electronics Corp. (New York), DHB Industries Inc. (New York), Chiliad, Inc. (Massachusetts), Telemonde, Inc. (London), Microwave Power Devices, Inc. (New York), Eaton Corporation – AIL Systems (New York) and Cost Free Internal Profit Systems, Inc. (New Jersey). Mr. Donofrio has an impressive track record of success directing the strategic growth of these companies through startups, financings, IPOs, acquisitions, divestitures, internal expansions and equity investment realizations. Mr. Donofrio earned a BS in Public Accounting from Clarkson University and an MA in economics from Brown University
Mr. Art Earl,
Director of Strategic Business Development for HYPRES, is responsible for
developing strategic partnerships in commercial market segments that leverage
the All Digital RFTM product line. Prior to joining Hypres,
Earl retired as a lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army where he served in a
variety of leadership roles related to military intelligence and acquisition
programs and technologies. Most recently, Earl served as the product manager
for Defense Satellite Communication System – Terminals and Vehicle Intercom
Systems for the Army. Earl graduated from the United
States Military Academy at West Point, and earned a master of
science degree in strategic and tactical science from the Air Force Institute
of Technology, and an MBA in technology management from the University of Illinois.
Dr.
Sergey K. Tolpygo, Director of Fabrication, joined HYPRES in 2002
and is an expert in materials research, fabrication, characterization, and
process development for superconductor electronics. Prior to joining HYPRES,
Dr. Tolpygo was a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Physics and
Astronomy, SUNY-Stony Brook (1991-2002). Earlier, he was a Senior Research
Scientist at the Institute for Metal Physics of the Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine and Adjunct Associate Professor of
Radio Physics at the National University of Ukraine, Kiev. Dr. Tolpygo received his Ph.D. in
Condensed Matter Physics from the Institute for Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1984 and M.S.
in Metallurgy from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, which he graduated
from in 1979 with the Highest Honors.
He has authored over 70 papers on various properties of low- and
high-Tc superconductors, superconducting devices and fabrication
techniques.
Dr. Steve Kaplan, Senior Scientist, joined HYPRES
in 1991. He led the effort that successfully designed, fabricated and demonstrated
a single-chip transient digitizer based on a superconductive flash ADC and
on-chip memory. He also led the team that demonstrated both a 20 Gbps 1:8
demultiplexer, and high-speed crossbar chips with 2 Gbps data channels. Prior
to joining HYPRES, he was a research staff member at the IBM Thomas
J. Watson
Research Center,
where he worked on Josephson technology and the physics of mesoscopic
(ultra-small) conductors. His work in mesoscopic physics resulted in
experimental verification of theories involving "universal conductance
fluctuations" and the breakdown of Ohm's law in small (semiconductor)
structures. Dr. Kaplan holds an A.B. degree in physics from Princeton University,
and a Ph.D. in physics from the University
of Pennsylvania, where
his doctoral work focused on nonequilibrium superconductivity. His papers on
this subject are well-known in this field
Mr. Alex
Kirichenko,
Senior Circuit Designer, joined HYPRES in 1996. He is a leading specialist in
Rapid Single-Flux Quantum (SFQ) digital electronics. Dr. Kirichenko is
responsible for a number of innovative and successful designs of advanced
circuits based on the RSFQ logic family.
At HYPRES, Dr. Kirichenko has initiated and led a number of research
and development projects, including the development of superconductor
random-access memory, 6-ps time-to-digital converter, quantum-precision
digital-to-analog converter, and many others.
Prior to joining HYPRES, Alex Kirichenko was a Research Scientist at
the Nuclear Physics Institute of Moscow State University. Alex Kirichenko received an M.S. in Physics
from Moscow State
University, has more than 50
scientific publications, and holds six U.S. patents.
Dr. Elie K. Track, is currently Sr. Partner at
HYPRES, and was formerly (1994-2000) its President and CEO, during which time
he focused the R&D effort on applications-relevant developments leading
to Hypres' current opportunity focus. From 1994 to 2000, he was elected
to the Board of Directors of the Applied Superconductivity Conference. He
served as the 1998 ASC Electronics Program Chair, 1999 Chair of the Workshop
on Superconductive Electronics, and is the 2006 ASC Electronics Program
Chair. From 2003 to 2005 he was Visiting Professor at Fairfield University
in Fairfield, CT. Since 1999, Dr. Track serves on
the Board of the Yale Science and Engineering Association for which he is the
President since 2007. He is also the current Chairman of CCAS, the
Coalition for the Commercial Applications of Superconductors, and Vice
President of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity. Dr. Track holds a Ph.D.
from Yale University in the field of
superconductivity and is author and co-author of over 41 publications in the
field
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