Our Team
David Icke, CEO
Dave Icke joined MC10 as CEO in March 2009. Dave built his career growing and scaling businesses that solve customer problems with breakthrough technology. Dave understands semiconductor manufacturing, starting as a process engineer at Cypress Semiconductor, then helping chipmakers worldwide quickly ramp their fabs in different leadership roles over 11 years at KLA-Tencor. He then led and grew several businesses in semiconductor test equipment at Teradyne. In 2005, he took the plunge into the startup world with Advanced Electron Beams, a venture-backed cleantech company with a disruptive platform technology serving multiple markets. MC10 offers a unique opportunity to combine Dave’s experiences in semiconductor manufacturing with breakthrough platform technology. Dave has a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.
Benjamin Schlatka, VP of Business Development, Co-Founder
Ben’s passion for growing and leading science based businesses led him to co-found MC10 in 2008. His multidisciplinary expertise in both material science and electronics uniquely position him to lead MC10’s partnership activities and growth across its Medical, Consumer, and Government segments. Ben’s career has been spent scaling technology enabled businesses. Prior to MC10, Ben helped grow Nantero’s carbon nanotube electronics business (sold to Lockheed Martin Corporation) and led marketing and sales for a Volunteer Solutions.org (winner 1998 MIT 50K, sold to the United Way). He began his career as a corporate intraprenuer as one of the founding team members of IBM’s Networking Hardware microelectronics business – today greater than a billion dollars in sales. Ben has been an invited key note speaker at Fortune 100 companies on strategies for growing disruptive science driven innovations. Ben’s other passion is coaching individuals on building their careers in technology and serves as an executive coach at the Harvard Business School. Ben earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and holds 2 issued patents with 11 pending.
Kevin Dowling, VP of Research & Development
Kevin has a long track record of transforming technologies into products, with a focus on systems, technology integration, and innovation. It was the opportunity to translate the powerful conformal electronics platform into groundbreaking products that brought Kevin to MC10 in 2010, where he leads Research and Development. Prior to MC10, Kevin was VP of Innovation at Philips Color Kinetics where he built and led the engineering team at Color Kinetics and was active in a variety of strategic roles in technology development, intellectual property, Color Kinetics’ IPO in 2004 and acquisition by Philips in 2007 for $800M. He also led government programs for the Department of Energy and NIST. He helped develop the winning entrant by Philips for the DoE $10M L-Prize. Kevin led an active role in the formation of industry committees working with governments to drive LED-based lighting. Prior to Color Kinetics, Kevin was Chief Robotics Engineer for PRI Automation where he advanced factory automation systems for the semiconductor industry. He also has over 15 years of experience in advanced robotics engineering at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he led many projects including robotic systems for a Lunar Rover demo, Space Shuttle inspection at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, and the Mars Rover Project. He holds over 65 U.S. Patents and is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. Kevin received his BS in Mathematics and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Amar Kendale, VP of Strategy & Market Development
Amar’s passion for creating products that help people to live healthier, safer, and happier lives led him to join MC10 in 2012. His deep technical acumen combined with his understanding of broad technology markets makes him uniquely qualified to lead MC10′s marketing and strategy activities. His experience spans more than a decade of operating and executive leadership roles in the life-science industry, with a strong record of driving innovation in healthcare. Amar comes to MC10 from Arsenal Medical, a venture-backed medical device startup, where he defined the company’s lead program, a first-of-its-kind bioabsorbable stent to treat peripheral artery disease, a product that is now in clinical studies. Prior to this Amar worked with Guidant (acquired by Boston Scientific in 2006), where he led the product development of a key cardiac surgery tool from concept to market, for which he earned the 2006 Cardiac Surgery Innovator of the Year award. Amar earned his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and he holds 5 issued patents with 6 pending.
Stacie Yamaguchi, Director of Finance
Stacie joined the MC10 team in July 2012. Prior to joining the company, Stacie was the Director of Corporate Controlling and Process Excellence at EMD Millipore, a division of Merck KGaA. In addition to her finance and controlling responsibilities, she also led numerous projects and initiatives relating to the integration of Millipore Corporation and Merck KGaA. Stacie also began her career at Teradyne, Inc. where she spent over eleven years in numerous roles within Corporate Finance, Operations/Manufacturing Finance and most recently as the Divisional Sales & Marketing Finance business partner within the Semiconductor Division. Stacie has an M.B.A. degree from Boston College in Operations Management and Organizational Behavior and a B.S. degree from Bentley University in Finance with a minor in Sociology. Stacie is also a trained Six Sigma Black Belt and certified Green Belt.
Board of Directors
Carmichael Roberts, Chairman and Co-Founder
Carmichael joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 2007. About a year later, he reconnected with John Rogers and helped bring the technology and team together to form MC10. A serial entrepreneur, Carmichael founded and ran several companies prior to joining North Bridge. Carmichael focuses primarily on early stage ventures where he invests and helps build companies based predominantly on innovative materials technologies. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Duke University and completed a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Carmichael also received his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
John Rogers, Co-Founder
The technical founder of MC10 and father of MC10’s conformal electronics technology, John Rogers is passionate about doing cutting-edge research and seeing it applied in real products that have an impact on the world. As the Lee J. Flory-Founder Chair Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, with a primary appointment in Materials Science and Engineering, John leads one of the largest and most productive research groups on the planet, with more than 45 PhD and post-doc student working on different aspects of electronic materials. Prior to UIUC he was the former Director of Condensed Matter Physics Research at Bell Laboratories. John has published over 300 papers and holds nearly 80 patents, and serves actively on MC10’s Board of Directors and Technology Advisory Board. John’s honors include the Lemelson/MIT Prize (2011) and a MacArthur Fellowship (2009) among many others. John received a B.S. in Physics and B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin, an SM in Physics and Chemistry and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from MIT, and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard.
Jiong Ma, Partner at Braemar Energy Ventuers
Jiong has more than 14 years of research, operating and venture capital experience in the technology industry. Prior to joining Braemar, she was with the venture group at 3i, a global private equity firm. At 3i, Dr. Ma was responsible for investment in the information technology and cleantech sectors. Prior to 3i, Dr. Ma held several senior positions at Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs.. Dr. Ma received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, and a B.S. in physics from Lanzhou University, China. She is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program, has published or co-authored 15 technical papers, and holds one U.S. patent.
Paul Klingenstein, Managing Partner at Aberdare Ventures
Paul has been a venture capital investor focused on healthcare innovation and young companies for most of his professional career. Beginning at Warburg, Pincus in the early 1980s, he joined Accel Partners in 1986 and helped, through the next decade, to build a leading venture capital firm. After a brief period as an advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation, he formed Aberdare Ventures in 1999. During this time he has invested in more than 50 companies, the majority of which are now public or have been merged into public companies. Paul received an AB from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford.
Marc Singer, Managing Partner at Osage Partners
Marc joined Osage in 2008 as a fifteen year veteran in venture capital industry. Marc was previously a General Partner of BEV Capital, an early stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 1997. Over the last ten years Marc helped BEV raise and invest over $200M in over 40 companies and co-invested with over 100 other venture capital firms. Marc managed or co-managed eighteen of BEV’s investments, served as an active board member and/or Chairman for the majority of his investments, and successfully managed multiple companies from start-up through IPO or trade sale. Prior to co-founding BEV in 1997, Marc worked at Consumer Venture Partners, another venture capital firm which he joined in 1993. Marc earned his BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
David Icke, CEO
Dave Icke joined MC10 as CEO in March 2009. Dave built his career growing and scaling businesses that solve customer problems with breakthrough technology. Dave understands semiconductor manufacturing, starting as a process engineer at Cypress Semiconductor, then helping chipmakers worldwide quickly ramp their fabs in different leadership roles over 11 years at KLA-Tencor. He then led and grew several businesses in semiconductor test equipment at Teradyne. In 2005, he took the plunge into the startup world with Advanced Electron Beams, a venture-backed cleantech company with a disruptive platform technology serving multiple markets. MC10 offers a unique opportunity to combine Dave’s experiences in semiconductor manufacturing with breakthrough platform technology. Dave has a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.
