Lloyd Spencer

President & CEO

Lloyd has over 23 years of experience in the computer and networking industries in engineering, product marketing, business development, and sales management. His expertise spans a spectrum of service provider industries and technologies, including distributed network computing and embedded systems development.

Previously, Lloyd served as Vice President of Marketing and Sales at eQuest Technologies; Solutions Unit Manager at Microsoft; Assistant Vice President and Business Unit Manager at Newbridge Networks; and Product Line Manager at Sun Microsystems.

Dave Hyams

Chief Technology Officer

David Hyams has more than 25 years' experience in the computer and networking industries. His engineering and engineering management expertise ranges across a spectrum of embedded system and communications technologies, including automotive telematics, navigation and positioning systems, instrumentation and process control, and mobile-wireless personal communications.

Previously, David was a senior development manager at AT&T Wireless. He and his development teams architected, prototyped and developed innovative services such as Project Angel, a fixed wireless networking service that was acquired and is now marketed by SR Telecom, and AT&T Packet Data Service for Airborne Systems that was acquired and is now marketed by Sky Way Communications.

Prior to AT&T, David was a software developer on numerous projects at Microsoft Corporation, including Project Taj Mahal and the Microsoft Digital Home group, where he was responsible for architecting, prototyping and developing home control user interfaces and a component switching framework.

At Applied Microsystems, he held systems engineering and product management positions, including the development of diagnostic systems for monitoring system performance and automated control panels for use with microprocessor development instrumentation.

David is an avid radio controlled airplane enthusiast and an active contributor to the robotics community in Seattle area through his participation in the Seattle Robotics Society since 1985.

Charles H. House

Charles House currently serves as the Executive Director for Stanford University’s MediaX program, as well as a Senior Research Scholar for Stanford’s Center for Studies in Language. Mr. House is also currently the Chairman of TII Network Technologies, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed company. He was instrumental in defining and creating the logic analysis instrumentation field, and recently led the Virtual Collaboration work for Intel’s IT Innovation Research group. Mr. House was also instrumental in establishing the Center for Information Technologies and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Earlier in his career, Mr. House led start-up activities for Hewlett-Packard that resulted in the creation of 12 business units, and also served as a start-up or turn-around leader for companies such as Veritas, Informix and Spectron MicroSystems. From 1982 to 1987, Mr. House served as Corporate Engineering Director of Hewlett-Packard. In 1988, Hewlett-Packard established the “Chuck House Productivity” annual award, CoroWare’s first-ever award named after an employee. Mr. House holds a BS degree in Engineering Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1962; MS EE, Stanford University, 1964; MA History of Science, University of Colorado, 1970; and an MBA (Strategic Studies), Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, 1985.

John Long, Ph.D.

Dr. John Long is a member of the cognitive science faculty at Vassar College. His academic focus combines biological and engineering approaches to analyze and synthesize the behavior, mechanics, and evolution of swimming animals. His current research seeks to build biomimetic swimming robots to test biological theories of neural control, perception-action coupling, and the mechanical origins of vertebral columns.

In another on-going collaboration, Dr. Long is working with Nekton Research LLC of Durham, North Carolina, to design and build a four-finned underwater robot to test biological theory about the hydromechanical interaction and neural control of multiple fins. As of the fall of 2004, the robot has been launched as a remotely operated vehicle for initial trials and breaking in. With on-board sensors (sonar, video, depth, altimeter, accelerometer), the robot is currently being upgraded to partial autonomous operation this fall using a hybrid subsumption architecture.

In his role as advisor to CoroWare, Dr. Long will help analyze emerging technologies and identify those companies whose work and focus aligns with that of CoroWare.

Dan Kara

Dan Kara is a successful entrepreneur and leading research analyst who has been integrally involved with the building of three integrated media and research firms focused on nascent technology markets poised for rapid growth.

As President and Co-Founder of Robotics Trends, an integrated media and research firm serving the burgeoning personal, service and mobile robotics markets, Dan provides strategic direction for the company. Dan was the developer and past chairman of the Emerging Robotics Technologies and Application Conference and the RoboNexus, the international consumer, educational and business development conference and exposition for intelligent, mobile robotics. Dan is also the developer and chairman of the RoboBusiness Confernece and Exposition, a business development event for the personal, service and mobile robotics industry. In addition, Dan is the publisher of RoboticsTrends.com, the leading online portal covering the intelligent, mobile robotics market.

Prior to forming Robotics Trends, Dan was co-founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Intermedia Group, a leading integrated conference and media company focused on emerging information technology markets. He has also served as VP of Advanced Information Technology Research at Sentry Group, VP and Director of Research at Ullo International, and as Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Software Productivity Group, an integrated publishing, conference and analyst services firm focused on the enterprise software marketplace. He holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University.

Kevin McCarthy

Principal, MoonRaker Associates

Kevin McCarthy is a proven executive on Homeland and National Security issues, serving in numerous advisory and consultancy roles to both the public and private sector on the utilization and development of unmanned systems, geospatial intelligence gathering, and aviation security.

Mr. McCarthy is an accredited consultant to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Institute. He serves as a member of the Aviation Safety & Security Working Group sponsored by The World Bank and is a member of the DOD’s, Directed Energy Task Force’s Laser Eye Protection Group. In a policy forum sponsored by The White House Homeland Security Council, Mr. McCarthy advised the Center for Technology and National Security Policy on developing airliner missile defense and response plans. Additionally, Mr. McCarthy has advised the Staff Director of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, and the Director of the Systems Engineering & Development within the DHS Science & Technology Directorate, on the utilization of unmanned systems and geospatial technologies for airliner missile defense.

As an aviation security advisor for Booz Allen Hamilton, McCarthy worked on the establishment of leading edge security policies and practices for developing nations in Eastern Europe. Mr. McCarthy founded and directed the National Center for Aviation Security and concurrently directed the first Office of Intelligence & Emerging Threats for a major international trade association. In this role, he represented the interests of its 65,000 members to the US government and National Intelligence Community.

McCarthy holds a BS degree in Earth & Space Science, has received advanced Counterintelligence education at the CI Centre, Alexandria, VA and carries a US government security clearance.

Bob Norris

Bob Norris has over 15 years experience in robotics, adaptive control systems and artificial intelligence. While at John Deere Company, he served in multiple business, program management and engineering positions in John Deere’s Commercial and Consumer Equipment divisions, and worked on the introduction of robotics products for military, homeland security, private security and emergency responder market segments. Previously, Bob served as a Researcher at National Center For Supercomputer Applications (NCSA); and as a Researcher at U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Lab.

Bob is an accomplished high technology and business leader with extensive experience in business and technology innovation, enterprise-level leadership and program management; and has considerable expertise in developing and managing highly complex technical products from conception through product development, manufacturing, customer service and delivery including both technical and business related activities.

John C. Kroon

Dr. Kroon was born in the Netherlands and his family emigrated from Amsterdam to Ottawa, Canada in 1957. He is a dual citizen of the US and Canada.

He is a Life Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Dr. Kroon began his career in 1958 in Ottawa as a Tech. and then Chemist for Eldorado Mining & Refining ( now Cameco Corp. ), engaged in Uranium mining and processing.

Dr. Kroon received both his B.Sc. ( 1966 ) and PhD degrees ( 1972 ) in Nuclear Physics from the University of Ottawa in Canada.

From 1971 he worked as a Research Scientist in Candu Reactor Instrumentation at Atomic Energy of Canada in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada and joined a start-up company Reuter Stokes Canada in Cambridge, Ontario in1972.

In 1974, Dr. Kroon transferred to Reuter-Stokes Electronic Components in Cleveland, Ohio as VP. Applied Technology developing radiation sensor systems for oil-well logging, thickness gauging and in-core sensors for commercial and gov’t nuclear reactors.

General Electric acquired Reuter-Stokes in 1984 and Dr. Kroon became the President of Reuter-Stokes in 1986. This position led to a varied 17-year career with GE as a Senior Executive that included a 4-year assignment as President of GEFanuc Europe’s Industrial Automation Business in 1991, headquartered in Frankfurt and Luxembourg.

He became Vice-President of Corporate Strategies and Business Development in 1995 for GEFanuc North America in Charlottesville, Virginia and laid the groundwork for several acquisitions to further product diversification and top line growth.

From June, 2002 to May, 2004, Dr. Kroon was the President of ImageGuide, Inc., a medical device start-up Company in Baltimore Md.

He became a Director of Coroware in April 2007, and our Chairman of the Board in August 2010.

Martin Nielson

Martin Nielson was the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors from May 2003 until he resigned as Chairman effective June 1, 2004. Mr. Nielson is still on our Board of Directors. Mr. Nielson is a principal of Altos Bancorp, Inc., serving as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since November 2002. He has also served as Chief Executive Officer and director of Inclusion Inc. since September, 2000. Mr. Nielson and Altos were instrumental in assisting the Company in the negotiations that led to the Company's settlement of its litigation with SunTrust Bank and in securing the financing that funded that settlement. Mr. Nielson will continue as a director of the Company. Mr. Nielson is a senior executive with extensive experience in operations and finance. He has been a business builder for 30 years with such companies as Gap, Businessland, and Corporate Express.

Altos, which is an outgrowth of Nielson's M&A practice during his ten years in London is engaged in providing investment banking and business development services to growth oriented, emerging companies throughout the United States and Europe. Altos was retained by the Company to act as its business advisor, but that contract was concluded to coincide with the acquisition of RWT. Mr. Nielson is also a director of Advanced Communications Technologies, Inc.

Lloyd T. Spencer

Lloyd Spencer became our Chief Executive Office on January 28 2008, interim Chief Financial Officer on November 17, 2008 and a member of the board of directors and Vice President since September 20, 2007. Mr. Spencer is also President and CEO of CoroWare Technologies, Inc. Mr. Spencer has over 25 years of experience in the computer and networking industries in engineering, product marketing, business development, and sales management. His expertise spans a spectrum of service provider industries and technologies, including distributed network computing and embedded systems hardware development. Previously, Mr. Spencer has served as Vice-President of Marketing and Sales at eQuest Technologies; Solutions Unit Manager at Microsoft; Assistant Vice-President and Business Unit Manager at Newbridge Networks; and Product Line Manager at Sun Microsystems.

Community involvement is an important part of Mr. Spencer’s life. He is an active contributor to the robotics community in the Seattle area through his participation in the Seattle Robotics Society. He is also instrumental in initiating and fostering 4H robotics clubs and programs in Washington State.

Mr. Spencer received his Bachelors degree from Cornell University with a major in Biology and Animal Science and with an emphasis in Immunogenetics.