Jeffrey brings 25+ years of CFO experience working with start-up ventures and major manufacturing companies offering a unique combination of financial expertise and product development through to manufacturing. Jeffrey has held executive finance positions with 3COM, Ericsson, Siemens and Rolls Royce Marine (VP Finance, global responsibility for all OE business). He has expertise in M&A, financial analysis, government contracts and internal project management. Jeffrey holds an MBA from University Connecticut.

Robert O’Donnell has worked in the field of ultra-stable frequency CO2 gas lasers for over twenty-five years at the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working in the laboratory of Charles Freed, Lincoln Laboratory, Bob assisted in the design, fabrication and testing for a variety of lasers used across industry and in the Strategic Defense Initiative. Bob is an expert in radar systems, high voltage electronics, system design, integration, gas handling and custom machining of components for gas lasers and has co-authored peer reviewed publications in these disciplines. Before joining MIT, Bob served in the US Navy as an electronic technician, later was a Senior Field Engineer for the Firepond Radar System, Lincoln Labs, and subsequently worked for private industry and aerospace companies. Bob has consulted for PEM for five years.

David has over 30 years experience with government and industry developing large scale, complex information collection sensor systems from design through operations; expertise in systems architecting, systems engineering and technical project management. David is a graduate of East Tennessee State (BS) and University of Arizona (MS, PhD) where he studied optical physics.

Susan Murcott is an environmental engineer, social entrepreneur, and educator who has spent her lifetime collaboratively developing and implementing effective, affordable solutions to provide safe water to the world’s neediest. She is a lecturer in D-Lab at MIT where she teaches courses on water, sanitation, hygiene, and environmental innovations for the common good ¹²³. She has led MIT student teams in over 25 countries spanning five continents and has authored over 50 professional papers as well as the book Arsenic in the World: an International Sourcebook ¹. She is also the founder of Pure Home Water, a non-profit organization that has built a ceramic pot filter factory to provide safe drinking water in northern Ghana ¹. She has been the principal investigator of a team that invented and has widely disseminated the KanchanTM Arsenic Filter, which removes arsenic from drinking water ¹. Her current related project is manufacturing and marketing E. coli test kits to promote safely managed drinking water and improved public health in Nepal ¹. Susan holds a BA in environmental engineering from MIT.