Cooligy

	Mark McMaster, Ph.D., Vice President Mark joins Cooligy from Read-Rite, Incorporated where he served as Director, Engineering. While at Read-Rite, Mark was responsible for wafer and slider fabrication engineering activities as well as new product introduction for one of the world’s top OEM suppliers of magnetic recording heads, supervising a workforce of 100 employees. Prior to joining Read-Rite, Mark managed IBM’s slider development engineering team which helped introduce giant magnetoresistive recording heads into mass production. Mark received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Stanford University.

	Douglas Werner, Senior Director of Research and Development Doug came to Cooligy in early 2002 from Corning, Incorporated where he served as program manager for Micro-Optics and manager of Micro-Optics Technologies within the Photonics Technologies organization. There he was responsible for developing new lower cost micro-optic packaging for passive components. Prior to that, he spent 4 years as technical manager and senior scientist in Tyco Electronics Technology and Business Development Group where he delivered new technology platforms to business units based on developing novel material’s and processes. Douglas started his career in Raychem’s Wire and Cable product development organization and went on to serve as manager and staff engineer for new materials development in Raychem’s Display Products Group. Doug earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MS in chemical engineering from Stanford University.

	Girish Upadhya, Ph.D., Director, Applications Engineering Before joining Cooligy, Girish was at Brocade Communications, responsible for developing complete thermal management solutions through design, simulation, prototyping and thermal characterization. Prior to Brocade, Girish served at Apple Computer for where he was responsible for the thermal design of various award winning products such as iMac, G-4 Cube, iBook, G-4 Powerbook, and the G-4 Power Mac. At Johnson Matthey Electronics (now a part of Honeywell), Girish managed research in the area of Pentium spreader design, heat sink optimization, and packaging and interconnect materials design. Early in his career, Girish worked at Concurrent Technologies Corporation where he developed various numerical schemes for development of a comprehensive CFD code for analysis of heat transfer, fluid flow and solidification in castings. Girish received his Ph. D. from The University of Alabama, and his Bachelor’s and Master’s from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Madras, respectively. Girish has over 40 technical publications.

	Fred Rebarber, Director, Sales and Marketing Prior to Cooligy, Fred held several senior sales and marketing roles with Raychem Circuit Protection, a division of Tyco Electronics. Raychem Circuit Protection sold PolySwitch Resettable Fuses, CoEv Magnetics, power management silicon devices and a host of other circuit protection devices including thyristors, metal oxide varistors, gas discharge tubes and chip fuses totaling billions of parts per year. In this role, as Americas Sales Manager, Fred directed a regional management team including 16 manufacturer’s representative organizations. In addition to managing sales, he also managed customer service. In his marketing role, Fred managed the global computer market strategy, launching the successful nanoSMD PolySwitch line. Prior to recent Tyco roles, he was a Director of Sales at Lightwave Microsystems. Lightwave Microsystems was a fiber optics components provider and its primary product were arrayed waveguide gratings based on silica on silicon wafers for multiplexing and demultiplexing applications for Dense Wave Division Multiplexing. Fred holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.