TEAM

Mr. Ahola was pilot for the Finnish Air Force until 1993 and the Managing Director of Infosto Mediat Group until 2001. He has founded several companies in the US and Finland including Keltainen Pörssi, the Finnish market leader in free-ad publications. He recently made an successful exit from being a major shareholder in Suomen Terveystalo Inc through Infosto Research and Development Oy and Media Invest Int. Inc. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Biozone Scientific International, Inc, eFruit International, Inc, Finnish Media Group, Inc and Media Invest Inc and is a member of the board of InfoMedia (Beijing) Digital Technologies.

Dr. Brown has been the CEO of Teicos Pharma, Particle Stream Technologies and StreamWise Finland, a Senior Research Scientist at the Helsinki University of Technology, a Fulbright Fellow and an engineering consultant to companies and research institutes worldwide. He is a leading expert in the modeling, design and scaling of synthesis reactors and deposition and characterization systems. He has a PhD in Environmental Engineering and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from the University of Cincinnati and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Yrjö Neuvo was Chief Technology Officer and a member of the Group Executive Board in Nokia in 1993-2006. His responsibilities included managing Nokia's mobile phone R&D. Before joining Nokia, he was Professor at Tampere University of Technology, National Research Professor at the Academy of Finland and a visiting professor at Santa Barbara University in California, USA.Yrjö Neuvo received his Ph. D, in EE from Cornell University in 1974. Before joining Nokia, he had a 19 year academic career as Professor at Tampere University of Technology, as National Research Professor at the Academy of Finland and as a visiting professor at University of California, in Santa Barbara, USA. Currently he is Professor and Research Director at Helsinki University of Technology. He is also a Board Member of two listed companies (Metso and Vaisala) as well as Canatu. He has received four honorary doctorates. Asteroid 1938 DN carries his name

Dr. Kauppinen is a Physics Professor at the Helsinki University of Technology leading the NanoMaterials Group at the Center for New Materials and a Professor of Nanotechnology at the Finnish Technical Research Centre. He is one of the world's leading authors in carbon nanomaterial synthesis, properties and applications.

Mr. Kärkkäinen has held various positions as an early stage venture catalyst for a wide range of emerging high-tech businesses in the Finnish innovation environment. Mr. Kärkkäinen joined Canatu from the Helsinki School of Creative Entrepreneurship. He holds a M.S. (Econ.) with a focus on Managerial Accounting from the Helsinki School of Economics.

Dr. Nasibulin, a Senior Research Scientist at the Helsinki University of Technology and an Academy of Finland Fellow, is a world leading scientist in theoretical and experimental aspects of Carbon Nanotubes and nano catalysts. He has more than 80 scientific refereed publications including articles in leading scientific journals, books and chapters and 9 patents. Dr. Nasibulin is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of /The Open Mechanical Engineering Journal/ His Ph.D is from Kemerovo State U. in Physical Chemistry.

Dr Jiang is a Senior Research Scientist at the Helsinki University of Technology specializing in microscopy and structural characterization of nanomaterials. He is a world leader in the characterization of nanostructured films and analysis of Carbon Nanotubes by Electron Microscopy

Mr. Aitchison has a multi-disciplinary background commercializing Thin Film Deposition, Material Characterization, Display Technology, Optical Coatings. Mr. Aitchison has an M.S in Materials Science from UCLA and a B.A. in Physics from Willamette.

Mr. Varjos has previously worked for flexible electronics manufacturers such as Intune Circuits (RFID antennas and flexible circuits) and Enfucell (flexible batteries). Ilkka has long experience taking products from lab to fab, ramping up and developing processes for the use of electronics manufacturing as well as production of printed electronics.

Mr. Sarkkinen has many years of experience in mass production of MEMS including photolithography, thin film depositions and etchings. Before joining Canatu he held a position of process development engineer.