Stephen Saylor President & CEO Mr. Saylor’s career spans over 20 years of emerging technology development and commercialization.  Prior to joining SiOnyx, Mr. Saylor served as a Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for Adobe Systems where he managed Adobe’s award winning digital video product line. Mr. Saylor joined Adobe from FlashPoint Technology, a digital imaging company he co-founded with a team from Apple Computer and built into one of the most prolific licensing firms serving the consumer digital photography industry.  Mr. Saylor’s early career includes a variety of technology management, marketing and engineering roles with Apple, Polaroid and Technicare Corporation.  Mr. Saylor holds a BSEE from Northeastern University.

Susan Alie VP of Process Engineering and Manufacturing Ms. Alie joined SiOnyx from Analog Devices where she served as Process Engineering Manager for the Micromachined Products Division.  There, she led teams in developing and supporting the MEMs process platforms used in the production of over 1.5 million accelerometers per week.   Ms. Alie is a named inventor on 6 US patents and was team leader for Analog Devices MEMS IP management board.  Prior to joining Analog Devices, Ms. Alie held roles with Polaroid, Alpha Industries and Fairchild Semiconductor.  Ms. Alie earned her BSChE and MSChE from University of New Hampshire

Dr. Homayoon Haddad, VP of Device Engineering Dr. Haddad joined SiOnyx from MagnaChip Semiconductor where he served as VP of Advanced Sensor & Pixel development. He managed the development of 2.2, 1.7, and 1.4 um pixel technologies and released the first 1.75 um color BSI sensor in 2007. Prior to joining MagnaChip, Dr. Haddad worked with Hewlett Packard and Agilent from 1984 -2006 where he held a variety of technology management and engineering roles and he was responsible for releasing several sensor & pixel technologies. Dr. Haddad holds a BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D from Oregon State university.

Dr Martin Pralle VP of Business Development Dr. Pralle is the VP of Business Development at SiOnyx. Prior to this he was the General Manager and VP of Engineering at ICx Technologies’ Photonics division where he spent 8 years developing photonic crystal MEMS infrared emitters and bolometer sensors from initial device inception to high volume production. This development required cross functional technology integration including photonic bandgap physics, optics, MEMS mechanical device design, and analog electrical circuitry. As part of this past activity he was PI on or contributed to multiple SBIR and government funded research programs from NSF, NIH, DOE and others. Dr. Pralle holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and BS from Cornell University, both in Materials Science. As a graduate student he focused on self assembling strategies for supramolecular aggregates in order to spontaneously fabricate functional devices.

Dr. James Carey Principal Scientist & Co-Founder Dr. Carey is an expert in optical physics and the interaction of materials with ultrashort laser pulses.  Dr. Carey played a key role in the discovery of the unique optoelectronic properties of pulsed laser microstructured silicon, the study of which formed the basis for his SM in Engineering Science degree and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard.  Dr. Carey holds a BSE from the University of Michigan.