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Monarch Antenna, Inc.'s mission is to develop and apply Self-Structuring Antenna (SSA) technology to become the leader in wireless applications.
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Dr. Tayfun Özdemir is a co-founder of Monarch and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. At Monarch, he is responsible for technology development and manages all R&D activity. Dr. Özdemir is also the co-founder and President of Virtual EM Inc., an R&D house active in the fields of computational electromagnetics, antennas, RF circuits, and wireless sensors. At Virtual EM, he is credited with winning competitive R&D contracts worth over $2M. Dr. Özdemir holds a patent on a planar integrated antenna, and has over 20 years of experience in his field of expertise. Dr. Özdemir published 6 refereed journal papers, made over 40 conference presentations, and serves as the Chair of the AP/MTT/ED Chapter of the Southeast Michigan Section of IEEE.
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Jayson D. Pankin is a co-founder of Monarch and an advisor to the Company. Mr. Pankin leads Delphi Technologies, Inc.'s commercialization activities targeting spin-outs of potential "game changing technologies" into start-up companies. This includes creating internal incubators and external ventures, such as the spin-out of SpaceForm, Inc. to commercialize a disruptive metal welding technology, called Deformation Resistance Welding. SpaceForm was awarded the Michigan Technology Leader's Corporate Partnership Award for 2006. For over twenty-five years, Jayson has been a venture partner specializing in early stage and turnaround situations working with universities and Fortune 1000 corporations. He was a founder of Titan Auto, Inc., one of the largest insurance companies in Michigan. He earned his BBA in Accounting and MBA in International Business at the George Washington University.
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Dr. Edward J. Rothwell serves as the senior technical consultant to Monarch. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Michigan State University (MSU) and is the inventor for the first patent awarded on the self-structuring antenna (SSA) technology. Dr. Rothwell's pioneering work on the SSA technology at MSU in collaboration with his colleagues at Delphi Research Labs led the way for eventual launching of Monarch Antenna, and he currently facilitates prototyping efforts at Monarch. Prior to joining MSU, Dr. Rothwell worked for Raytheon Corporation and for MIT Lincoln Laboratory. At MSU, he received the John D. Withrow award for teaching excellence in 1991, 1996, and 2006, the Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award in 2007, and the MSU Alumni Club of Mid-Michigan Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2003. Dr. Rothwell was a joint recipient of the Best Technical Paper Award at the 2003 Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium, and in 2005, he received the Southeast Michigan IEEE Section Award for Most Outstanding Professional. Dr. Rothwell is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Commission B of URSI, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is also the co-author of the book Electromagnetics (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001).
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Dr. Thomas Anderson serves as Monarch's Chairman of the Board and Treasurer. Dr. Anderson is the senior director of Automation Alley and the director of the Automation Alley Technology Center. In his role as senior director, Dr. Anderson is responsible for overseeing the operations of Automation Alley along with executive director Ken Rogers. In addition, he serves as president of the Automation Alley Education & Research Institute, the Alley's new 501(c)(3) addition.
Dr. Anderson's prior position was as a strategic consultant, working with a range of clients to develop business plans, seek funding and develop process and decision tools for venture investing. He also gained 20 years experience at General Motors, leading technical research teams in fundamental research, initiating a licensing program for non-competitive applications, forming a National and International Neurotrauma research society, and developing processes to manage global cross-functional teams. He also serves on the Oakland University School of Engineering and Computer Science Advisory Council, President's Advisory Board at Walsh College, SpaceForm, Inc. Board of Directors, Michigan State University Corporate Research Park Management Board and the Beaumont Hospital Board of Trustees and Research Institute Board of Governors.
Dr. Anderson's education includes undergraduate and master's degrees in physics and math, a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Michigan, and a master of business administration from Michigan State University.
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Timothy Forbes serves as Monarch's interim President and member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Forbes is Delphi's Director of Commercialization & Licensing and has over 30 years of customer and business development experience. He has the responsibility of achieving the maximum value from Delphi's technology portfolio through commercialization, licensing and venture creation. In addition to his C&L role, Tim has been responsible for leading Delphi growth efforts beyond automotive as Director of New Markets. He brings a wealth of Delphi and General Motors knowledge to his current position; including leadership as Director of Modular Integration and Delphi's Customer Director for the GM North America Car Group. His divisional experience includes European Sales Director in Ruesselsheim, Germany that transitioned to worldwide program management. Tim earned a B.S. in IE from General Motors Institute and earned his M.S. in Management as a Sloan Fellow at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Mr. Terry Cross is a member of the Board of Directors of Monarch and serves as its Secretary. Mr. Cross is an active venture capitalist and serves as Wayne State University's Entrepreneur in Residence at the School of Business.
After graduating from Wayne State University with an MBA in Finance in 1966, Mr. Cross entered the machine tool business in Detroit, Michigan, with The Cross Company, (publicly traded) the world's leader in Automated Machine Tools. From 1964 through 1968, Mr. Cross worked in many departments of The Cross Company, learning the business from the ground up. In 1970, Mr. Cross joined Kidder, Peabody & Co, and spent the next 25 years in the brokerage and investment banking business in Detroit, New York City, and San Francisco where he focused primarily on technology companies. Mr. Cross' past board memberships include: G2 Networks, Inc. of Los Gatos, CA, Safari Technology Inc. of Lawton, Michigan, GCB Technologies of San Jose, CA, InGenius Technologies of Kalamazoo, MI., Wordenglass Inc. of Kalamazoo, MI., Machine Vision International of Ann Arbor, MI, and Inivest of Detroit, MI, and Triumph Resources of New York City Since 1962, Mr. Cross has invested in forty private companies. Among the more well known are Novell, DSC Communications, Inktomi, Warehouse Club, PayPal, Napster, and he was a first round investor in Google.
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Val Livada serves as a member of the Board of Directors. Val Livada founded Weybridge Partners in 1996 as a network of formal and informal associations of practitioners and organizations focused on the successful commercialization of technology. The network includes business and technology consultants, venture capitalists, academics, entrepreneurs, lawyers, etc in the US and abroad.
Val has spent over 25 years as a management consultant to both Fortune 200 and emerging companies. He was a Director at Braxton Associates, an international strategy planning consulting firm, and a Vice President at Pugh-Roberts Associates, a technology management firm established by MIT Entrepreneurship Professor Ed Roberts.
Prior to establishing Weybridge Partners, he was the leading practitioner in the area of innovation management for the PA Consulting Group. During his career, Dr. Livada has combined expertise in the areas of strategic planning and organizational dynamics with a detailed knowledge in the areas of innovation, product development and R, D & E management.
Val received his undergraduate degree from MIT and his MA/ PhD from Tufts University. He has been a Guest Lecturer at the MIT's Sloan School, Management of Technology Program for the last 12 years. Presently Val is working with the Cambridge University/MIT Institute on a variety of topics including Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Growth as well as Industry/University relations.
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Dr. Andrzej M. Pawlak serves as a scientific advisor to Monarch. He has co-authored a number of patents in the area of Self Structuring Antennas which are licensed to Monarch. Dr. Pawlak is DTI's New Business Technology Development Manager. Dr. Pawlak provides technology analysis and patent review of Delphi's technology portfolio to enable spin-outs and create stronger patent positions. He has received numerous awards including multiple Boss Kettering awards, one of the highest honors for an inventor and has published a number of invited papers including 35 peer reviewed professional publications and has 85 patents issued and patent applications pending. He has recently published the book Sensors and Actuators in Mechatronics, Design and Applications, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, London, New York, 2006. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Silesian University of Technology in Poland.
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Scott Jones serves Monarch as its VP of Operations. Scott was an Adams Entrepreneur Fellow for 1.5 years before joining Monarch, received his MBA degree from Wayne State University, and prior to that, his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University.
He is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society, and prior to receiving the prestigious Adams Entrepreneur Fellow, Scott worked for General Motors Corporation for five years. In 2003 he co-authored an SAE paper on the "Optimization of a Commercially Available Chemilumenscence Analyzer for Low Level NOx Measurement" and presented his findings at the SAE World Conference. During last three years of his tenure at General Motors, Scott worked on transfer case design, development, and validation.
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