Mr. Dame has been a world class high technology problem solver for over 25 years. After receiving his BS/MSEE degrees from California State University, Mr. Dame worked in the Medical Ultrasound industry for GE Medical Systems, and ATL (Philips Medical Systems) as well as a number of startup companies such as Second Foundation and EndoSonics. He helped pioneer some of the early advances in Medical Ultrasound such as coronary artery imaging and Doppler signal processing and was awarded Technical Fellow in 1994 for his work in Doppler Ultrasound.
In 1994, Mr. Dame founded a technology consulting organization to focus on embedded Digital Signal Processing product development. In addition to running this organization, Mr. Dame has participated in various technical leadership roles in companies spanning consumer electronics, wireless communications, avionics and aerospace power systems. In the early 2000’s Mr. Dame directed a research group in digital signal processing for music search engine company CantaMetrix. Following this assignment he was recruited as Chief Technology Officer for a successful avionics company in the business Jet aviation marketplace.
Mr. Dame holds patents in automated musical pitch translation and acoustic pickup design as well as other patents pending in the aviation and consumer marketplace. He has a broad based background that spans the roles of individual contributor, entrepreneur and technology leadership at all levels of large and small organizations.
Dr. Atlas is a professor at the University of Washington’s Department of Electrical Engineering. He is an internationally renowned expert in the field of signal processing and acoustic signal classification, and he is one of the world’s leading authorities on acoustic coupling. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1984, and has been at the University of Washington since then. Dr. Atlas’ recent research has focused on modulation spectra and acoustic signal processing. He has published over 100 articles in refereed technical journals, and he is a Fellow of the IEEE for “For contributions to time-varying spectral analysis and acoustical signal processing.”
Dr. Atlas received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award earlier in his career, and he was a recipient of a Fulbright Research Award for study at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. He has served as the General Chair of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Theory and Methods, and is a member at large of the Signal Processing Society’s Board of Governors.
Dr. Atlas resides in Seattle with his wife and daughter. He is an avid cyclist, and a captivating teller of engaging stories.
Mr. Blom is well known and well regarded in international venture capital and supply chain security circles. Most recently, he co-founded the Alacrity Homeland Group with Admiral David M. Stone, a leading critical infrastructure security advisory firm located in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, CA. Mr. Blom heads Alacrity’s Silicon Valley and Asia Pacific operations, and works closely with private equity and venture capital firms in the maritime security, supply chain, and critical infrastructure market segments. He also currently serves as the Vice President of Corporate Development for Pacific Enterprise Capital, an investment management and venture capital firm based in Beijing, China and San Mateo, California.
Over the past sixteen years, Mr. Blom has received numerous sales and business development awards, and he has generated more than $2.5 billion in mergers and acquisitions, $420 million in sales, and $150 million in private equity financing. He has been a keynote speaker addressing the topics of homeland security and venture capital at gatherings in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden, and is an active angel investor in network infrastructure, network security, and payment security. Mr. Blom presently serves as a senior consultant to the CEO and management team at the VeriTainer Corporation, an early stage company developing specialized radiation detection technology to secure the containerized supply chain.
His family background has been instrumental in building his successful career. Mr. Blom is member of a highly regarded Norwegian/American shipping family that for more than four generations has owned, operated, and developed Liner Services (A.F. Klaveness); Cruise Ships (Royal Viking Lines); and Chartering, Brokerage, & Container Terminal Operations (Overseas Chartering, Overseas-Wiborg, & Overseas Shipping). Mr. Blom resides with his wife and son in San Anselmo, California.
Dr. Stanley has over 30 years of experience managing the development and manufacture of high-tech products. He graduated with honors in physics from Caltech, where he was an Academic All American in Basketball. He received his PhD in nuclear physics from Stanford, and landed his first job with Syntex Analytical Instruments, the leading U.S. supplier of medical CAT scanners at the time. At Syntex, he directed the development and productization of several generations of X-ray detector systems and helped develop the first no-motion heart scanner.
Later, he joined ARACOR, recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the leading producer of industrial CT systems, as Vice President of R&D, managing a broad range of Government contracts, several of which required high-level defense and security applications. In this capacity, he worked closely with the FAA on the development of X-ray suitcase inspection systems (the forerunners of the baggage inspection systems currently deployed in all major airports), and with U.S. Customs and law enforcement agencies on the development of portable and fixed X-ray inspection systems for cargo containers entering the country by railcar and truck.
At present, Dr. Stanley is in Senior Engineering Management at Rockwell Collins, a leading supplier of avionics equipment for both commercial and military aircraft. He is also the Founder and Principal of LIFT Associates, a small and highly successful consulting firm specializing in proposal development that stands as one of the most successful participants in the history of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Dr. Stanley lives in Palo Alto, CA.
