Richard A. Pierro

Rick Pierro is co-founder and owner of Superior Controls, a leading automation engineering company. He has thirty-three years of control systems experience.

Mr. Pierro received a BA in Chemistry from Boston University in 1981, and an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1983. His graduate-level thesis involved testing advanced PID tuning techniques for process control applications. While developing his thesis during those two years, he also taught several process control lab courses and later attended business courses at Harvard Business School.

For three years after graduating, Mr. Pierro worked as an application engineer at a systems integrator designing and implementing PLC-based control systems for the chemical and food and beverage industries. Over the next eight years, he advanced through project engineering, sales, and sales management, before co-founding Superior Controls in 1993.

Besides serving on the Board for MindChild Medical, he serves on the Board of E-TROLZ, a leading manufacturer of highly integrated measurement and control products for electrophysiological medical devices, and he serves on the Board of Acumentrics, a leading manufacturer of fuel cell power generation products. He also is on the Board of Directors of ISPE-Boston; he is a Trustee of the New Hampshire High Tech Council, and he is Chairman of the Board of Advisors to the University of Massachusetts Lowell Chemical Engineering Department. Mr. Pierro is also a recipient of the "Distinguished Engineering Award" from the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.