Joe has a passion for building businesses based on disruptive technology. Over the last ten years he has lead both large public and small private organizations through commercialization and rapid growth. Joe was the COO/CEO of Thermal Technology an advanced materials company which was sold to GTAT (NASDAQ: GTAT) in 2013 and CEO of Triformix, an optical components company which was sold to Bio-Rad Labs (NASDAQ: BIO) in 2012. He has also held executive positions in technology development and operations in Statschippak (contract mfg), Wispry (MEMS), and Skyworks (NASDAQ: SWKS) (RF semiconductor).