Igor Mezic, PhD – Founder and Chief Technical Advisor
Igor is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Energy Efficient Design. He earned his Dipl. Ing. in Mechanical Engineering in 1990 from the University of Rijeka in Croatia and his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from the California Institute of Technology. He is the winner of numerous scientific awards including the National Science Foundation’s Career Award and the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Mezic has published widely on micro-fluidic particle manipulation and bio-molecular conformation processes in prestigious journals that include Nature, Science, PNAS, and Lab-on-a-Chip. Integrated Fluidics’ technology is partially based upon a paper of his that appeared in Science in 2001 and which has been cited more than a thousand times in published articles discussing micro-fluidics.
Robin Stracey – Business Development
Senior executive with broad, international experience as a board director, public and private company CEO, and line manager at leading global, biotech, life science and medical device businesses including DuPont, Dade Behring (Siemens), Thermo Fisher and Applied Imaging (Danaher). Solid foundation in general management, strategy development and M&A.
Jeff Strabala – Chief Executive Officer
Experienced executive with a broad multifunctional background at small, medium and large companies. Expertise spans military acquisition test and evaluation, service industries, manufacturing and supply chain. Jeff has an MBA from USC in Operations and Venture Management and a B.S. from UCLA in Mechanical Systems Engineering.
Alan Fray, CPA – Finance and Administration
Widely connected executive with over 35 years of experience in multiple industries. Accomplished team builder with demonstrated expertise in Executive Leadership, Finance, Accounting, Tax, Business Administration, and Operations.
Terry Ingram – Business Operations Support
Thirty-five year business operations/project management veteran responsible for day-to-day business operations support, encompassing document maintenance and control, the quality management system, regulatory compliance activities, management of government grants and contracts, and maintenance of company files and correspondence. Prior experience includes line management roles at Northrup Grumman, Ace Hardware and Cubic Applications and Boeing.
James Hogg, PhD – R&D and Laboratory Operations
Thirteen years of experience as a Research Graduate Student and Scientist, who completed a Physics Dissertation titled "Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection of Low Prandtl-Number Gases". Prior experience includes: Scientist at AKELA, Inc. radar signal processing, principal on two Phase I programs and AlMdyn, Inc. data processing applied to non-linear dynamical systems for DARPA. James is head of Research & Development, Engineering Development, Laboratory Process Management at Integrated Fluidics, Inc.
Igor is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Energy Efficient Design. He earned his Dipl. Ing. in Mechanical Engineering in 1990 from the University of Rijeka in Croatia and his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from the California Institute of Technology. He is the winner of numerous scientific awards including the National Science Foundation’s Career Award and the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Mezic has published widely on micro-fluidic particle manipulation and bio-molecular conformation processes in prestigious journals that include Nature, Science, PNAS, and Lab-on-a-Chip. Integrated Fluidics’ technology is partially based upon a paper of his that appeared in Science in 2001 and which has been cited more than a thousand times in published articles discussing micro-fluidics.
Robin Stracey – Business Development
Senior executive with broad, international experience as a board director, public and private company CEO, and line manager at leading global, biotech, life science and medical device businesses including DuPont, Dade Behring (Siemens), Thermo Fisher and Applied Imaging (Danaher). Solid foundation in general management, strategy development and M&A.
Jeff Strabala – Chief Executive Officer
Experienced executive with a broad multifunctional background at small, medium and large companies. Expertise spans military acquisition test and evaluation, service industries, manufacturing and supply chain. Jeff has an MBA from USC in Operations and Venture Management and a B.S. from UCLA in Mechanical Systems Engineering.
Alan Fray, CPA – Finance and Administration
Widely connected executive with over 35 years of experience in multiple industries. Accomplished team builder with demonstrated expertise in Executive Leadership, Finance, Accounting, Tax, Business Administration, and Operations.
Terry Ingram – Business Operations Support
Thirty-five year business operations/project management veteran responsible for day-to-day business operations support, encompassing document maintenance and control, the quality management system, regulatory compliance activities, management of government grants and contracts, and maintenance of company files and correspondence. Prior experience includes line management roles at Northrup Grumman, Ace Hardware and Cubic Applications and Boeing.
James Hogg, PhD – R&D and Laboratory Operations
Thirteen years of experience as a Research Graduate Student and Scientist, who completed a Physics Dissertation titled "Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection of Low Prandtl-Number Gases". Prior experience includes: Scientist at AKELA, Inc. radar signal processing, principal on two Phase I programs and AlMdyn, Inc. data processing applied to non-linear dynamical systems for DARPA. James is head of Research & Development, Engineering Development, Laboratory Process Management at Integrated Fluidics, Inc.