Chairman of the Board for Sion Power

Dr. Leo Guthart is CEO of Topspin Partners, a Long Island, NY based venture capital firm. Prior to founding Topspin, Leo was the President, CEO and Chairman of Ademco, which he joined in 1964. Under his tenure, the company grew from a fledgling manufacturer to become the Pittway Corporation Security Group, a $1.5 billion enterprise. This group encompasses the world¹s largest manufacturer and distributor of security systems in the world in addition to a number of security-related businesses. Leo currently serves as a trustee for the Acorn Group of Funds. He also serves as a Board member of Symbol Technologies (NYSE:SBL), the Aptar Group (NYSE:ATR), and as the Chairman of Cylink Corporation (NASDAQ:CYLK). He is also a member of the board of trustees of Hofstra University, where he served as Chairman from 1993-1996. Leo received his A.B. in Physics from Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He also received a Doctorate from Harvard Business School with a specialty in Corporate Finance and served on the faculty there where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow.

Board Member

Dr. James H. Simons is President of Renaissance Technologies Corp., a private investment firm dedicated to the use of mathematical methods. Renaissance presently has roughly $6 billion under management. Previously he was chairman of the Mathematics Department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Earlier in his career he was a cryptanalyst at the Institute of Defense Analyses in Princeton, and taught mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

Dr. Simons holds a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. His scientific research was in the area of geometry and topology. He received the American Mathematical Society Veblen Prize in Geometry in 1975 for work that involved a recasting of the subject of area minimizing multi-dimensional surfaces. A consequence was the settling of two classical questions, the Bernstein Conjecture and the Plateau Problem. Dr. Simons' most influential research involved the discovery and application of certain measurements, now called the Chern - Simons Invarients, which have wide use, particularly in theoretical physics.

Dr. Simons is the founder and Chairman of Math for America, a nonprofit organization with a mission to significantly improve math education in our nation’s public schools. He serves as Trustee of Brookhaven National Laboratory, The Institute for Advanced Study, The Rockefeller University, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. He is also a member of the Board of the MIT Corporation. Together with his wife, Marilyn, Dr. Simons manages the Simons Foundation, a charitable organization devoted to scientific research.

Dr. Simons is 67 years old and lives in Manhattan with his wife and his daughter, Audrey. His older children, Liz and Nathaniel, live respectively in Palo Alto, California and Berkeley, California.

Board Member

Dr. Weinig founded Materials Research Corporation (MRC), a public, multinational company supplying sophisticated materials and equipment to the semiconductor and computer industries. SONY acquired MRC and following the merger, Dr. Weinig remained with SONY for 6½ years as Vice Chairman of Engineering and Manufacturing. In 1996 he left SONY and accepted Professorships at Columbia University and The State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y. His main field of concentration is the competitive place of the manufacturing enterprise in the global marketplace. Dr. Weinig received his doctorate from Columbia University. His technological contributions to the field of electronic materials resulted in his induction into the National Academy of Engineering in 1984, and in 1988 the Government of France awarded him the rank of Chevalier dans l'Orde National de la Legion d'Honneur. In 1990 he was elected to the International Technology Institute's Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology. He serves as a director for 2 public corporations.

Board Member

David Mayer is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Khronos LLC, a New York based asset management firm that is specialized in the world of alternative investments. Currently David heads the firm’s Private Equity practice while also serving as Portfolio Manager for a large and broadly diversified investment portfolio. Prior to his founding of Khronos in 1995, David spent two years in the Health Care Group of Salomon Smith Barney’s Investment Banking Division. David graduated Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania receiving a B.A. in Mathematics.

Board Member

Evelyn Berezin has been management consultant to technology-based companies since 1988. From 1980 to 1987, she was President of Greenhouse Management Company, the General Partner of a group of venture capital funds totaling $20 million and dedicated to early stage, high technology companies. Ms. Berezin founded Redactron Corporation in 1969 and was president of the company, which designed, developed and manufactured word processing systems. It was sold to Burroughs (now Unisys) in 1976 and she continued with that company until 1980. From 1951 to 1969 Ms. Berezin was a computer hardware designer and holds a number of patents in that field. She received an A.B. and did graduate work at New York University in physics and held an Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship. She has received honorary doctorates from Adelphi University and Eastern Michigan University. Ms. Berezin is a Director of IntelliCheck Inc. and has served on the Boards of CIGNA, Standard MEMS, Koppers and Datapoint. She is on the Board of the Stony Brook Foundation at SUNY - Stony Brook, the Brookhaven National Laboratories and the Boyce Thompson Institute.

Board Member

Dr. Melvin N. Miller founded NUMAR in 1983 and served as CEO and Chairman from inception through going public and subsequent sale to Halliburton for $500 million in 1997. NUMAR under Miller's technical leadership developed the world's first commercially successful openhole logging tool for oil and gas exploration based on Magnetic Resonance technology. Miller also founded Geometric Data and under his direction developed for clinical pathology laboratory use the world's first Automated White Blood Cell Differential Analyzer. The system utilized proprietary pattern recognition technology. He sold the company to Glaxo SmithKline and as President directed its worldwide operation for 11 years where it achieved and maintained market leadership and profitability. He has ten US patents in applications of pattern recognition and magnetic resonance. Miller has a BME from Cornell University and a MS and a Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Board Member

Dr. Mangino is Chief Executive Officer of Sion Power.  Prior to   joining Sion Power, Mangino served as President and CEO of   NSF International, a global leader in testing, product certification, ISO-9000 registration and standards development.  Under his   leadership, NSF experienced a fivefold growth in revenue while   broadening services provided to companies operating in 85   countries.Earlier, Mangino held executive positions with BP America, Inc., Weirton Steel   Corp., PPG industries and EniChem America, Inc. where his responsibilities included   strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, quality systems management and general   management of both commodity and high technology based businesses.  He has   extensive international experience in the areas of technology licensing and business   partner development. Mangino received his B.S and Ph.D. degrees in ceramic   engineering and ceramic science, respectively, from Rutgers University.  He also   completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School.