Jonah Erlebacher, Founder & CTO

• Tenured Professor and Former Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Whiting School of Engineering
• Inventor of six patents and applications
• Author of over 75 published papers
• Over 100 invited presentations at universities and conferences around the world
• Harvard Ph.D., Yale undergraduate

Neil Cohen, Chairman

• Founder and Chairman of Emerald Development Managers LP, an early-stage VC firm investing in elite scientific and engineering teams that are solving real problems. Emerald’s three main investment focus areas are Clean / Industrial Tech, HealthTech / Bio, and Cybersecurity / Enterprise Software
• Co-Founder and Co-CEO of American Rock Salt Company LLC, the greenfield developer of the newest and largest salt mine in the U.S.
• Sits on the board of directors of Babson Diagnostics Inc., Proscia Inc., TBT Pharma Inc., and is a board observer for LifeSprout Inc, Torigen Pharmaceuticals Inc., and WATT Fuel Cell Corporation
• Member of the advisory boards for the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, the Institute of NanoBio Technology, the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Advisors of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Holds an M.S. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Engineering Sciences in Mathematical Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University