Management

John Broadhead, Ph.D.-Chief Operating Officer and Co-Chief Technology Officer (Co-founder)

Prior to his full-time positions with Battery Intelligence, John was CTO of US Nanocorp, where he established technical marketing and made the first significant sales of battery active material to battery companies. John Initiated establishment of Safety and Environmental Policies for USN and Inframat (a sister company). He won BMDO, Air Force and EPA SBIR’s and directed several ongoing Government Programs. Before his employment with USN, John was Vice President of R&D at Moltech. While VP, John developed a lithium sulfur polymer rechargeable battery, established an OEM customer base, and increased Moltech’s identity through multiple conference presentations. He also formed the initial structure for an alliance with two Korean companies and explored technical and business possibilities with two Japanese companies. Prior to his work at Moltech, John directed R&D at Duracell, and developed Tester II (PowerCheck) and Tester III (a new PowerCheck for future introduction). He also formed an alliance with VARTA and implemented aggressive methods to win an $18M development contract for the alliance from USABC. John was responsible for development of new process and active material for high-power alkaline cells (now marketed as Duracell Ultra). Before his position at Duracell, John supervised the development of new energy sources at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Now Lucent Technologies). He discovered and developed a successful, high energy density rechargeable lithium cell, and was responsible for establishing a micropilot line to produce AA cells. He established 800 database contacts, negotiated the price within AT&T, and sold the cell to the military. John also landed a major contract for lead-acid powered electric vehicle evaluation for the Bell System with GM and Chrysler. He also solved a production lead-acid connector bonding problem. With S. Basu, John was responsible for the initial discovery of Li/Ion intercalation into graphite in 1982.

Pritpal Singh, Ph.D.- Chief Technology Officer (Co-Founder)

Tenured Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept. of Villanova University, Dr. Singh is actively engaged in research related to photovoltaic solar cell design and fabrication, and battery management and state-of-charge estimation using fuzzy logic. Dr. Singh has extensive experience in photovoltaics. As a graduate student at the University of Delaware, he performed his research at the Institute of Energy Conversion, a National Center of Excellence for Thin Film Photovoltaics Research. His graduate studies focused on the development of amorphous silicon germanium alloys for thin film photovoltaic applications. After joining Villanova University Dr. Singh’s PV research focused on the electrodeposition of II-VI compounds and alloys including ZnTe, CdTe, and HgxZn1-x Te. In 993 Dr. Singh spent a Sabbatical Leave at the National Renewable Energy Research Laboratory in Golden, CO where he performed research on electro-deposited substrate configuration, CdTe solar cells. More recently, Dr. Singh has performed pioneering research (in collaboration with US Nanocorp) on the application of fuzzy logic to modeling of state-of-charge of primary and rechargeable batteries. This work has resulted in three patents. He is currently principal investigator on two research projects in which fuzzy logic-based hardware is being developed for battery management applications.

Board of Directors

David Reisner, Ph.D.- Chairman

David E. Reisner, Ph.D., a 1978 University Honors graduate from Wesleyan Univ, did his doctoral thesis work at MIT in the area of chemical physics (laser spectroscopy). After a postdoc at IBM Research (San Jose) he entered the battery field in 1985 at Electrochimica Corp (Menlo Park, CA) in the areas of both aqueous and lithium rechargeable batteries. He joined Electro Energy Corp (Danbury, CT) in 1993, where he managed R&D for bipolar Ni-MH batteries and focused on corporate development. In 1996, Reisner co-founded both Inframat® and US Nanocorp® as a vehicle to develop nanostructured materials technology as it related to the fields of (i) nanocoatings and (ii) nanomaterials for energy storage and conversion devices. Since founding, Inframat and US Nanocorp have been funded nearly $18 MM in Government Contract R&D in the areas of nanocoatings, magnetic nanocomposites, nano-bio-ceramics, environmental materials, and thin film battery electrodes for batteries and fuel cells. Both Companies were recognized in Y2002 and Y2003 for their fast evenue growth as Deloitte & Touche 2002 Connecticut Technology Fast50 Award recipients. Last year, US Nanocorp went on to place nationally in the Technology Fast 500 Awards.

In close collaboration with Prof. Singh at Villanova Univ., Reisner spearheaded the fuzzy logic technology development since 1996, through Government awards from US SOCOM, the Navy, Army, DARPA, and NIH. The SBIR program recognized the US Nanocorp-Villanova team for their contributions to the SBIR program with a Tibbetts Award in Y2002. He was the prime mover in the formation of Battery IntelligenceTM Incorporated as a vehicle to commercialize the fuzzy logic technology. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Hartford Chapter of the Connecticut Venture Group and is an Advisory Board member of the NanoBusiness Alliance.

James C. Hsiao, Ph.D.

Dr. Hsiao is the founder and former Dean of the School of Business at Southern Connecticut University in New Haven. An economist, he was a member of the visiting faculty in the University of Chicago (1968), Yale University (1982, 1987) and the University of Connecticut (1984). He served as a consultant to a number of organizations, including the Rockefeller Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme. In a face-to-face meeting in 1998, he personally made recommendations to Premier Zhu Rongji for China to initiate a program, Innovation Fund For Small Technology-based Firms", fashioned after the U.S. SBIR program, which was enacted.

Dr. Hsiao is a co-founder and chairman of the board of the sister companies, US Nanocorp and Inframat. He has considerable experience in business development and the establishment of strategic alliances with international corporations. Most recently, he has played a key role in the establishment of a Sino-US Cooperative Joint Venture in Shanghai.