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



Jon Mandrell
Vice President, Director of Robotics & Automation

Jon Mandrell has 23 years of embedded systems design and development experience. 15 of those years have been spent specializing in both graphical and text based user interface design.

Previously, Jon was senior firmware architect for Vixel and Emulex Corporation, a producer of Fibre-Channel switches and hubs, where he was responsible for specifying processes and tools to be used on development projects, as well as managing requirements and high-level software architecture issues for products.

Prior to Vixel and Emulex, Jon was project engineer and team lead at Medtronic Physio-Control Corporation. Designing the user interface and printer drivers on Physio's LifePak-12 product line, as well as many internal portions of the system, required Jon to become familiar with FDA-level requirements specifications and validation/verification activities.

Before joining Medtronic Physio-Control Corporation, Jon worked as a consultant for Cyber Safe Corporation and as a software engineer for Performance Dynamics, Applied Microsystems Corporation, and Peripheral Technology Inc.

Jon has also been involved with the Seattle Robotics Society where he focused his attention on developing software for mobile robotics.



Kevin Sikorski
Service Robotics Engineer

Kevin Sikorski, service robotics engineer, comes to CoroWare after a varied career in academic research. His broad-based experience includes programming robotic platforms for applications as diverse as automated plant watering, aircraft safety inspection and international robotic soccer competitions. His primary interests lie in autonomous mobile robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Kevin has served as a researcher in robotics programs at the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and Brown University. He also worked as a software designer at Microsoft Corp., where he focused on user interface definition, design specification, test case development, and regression testing.

Kevin received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington, his Master’s Degree in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and his Science Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Brown University.

Kevin is a frequent speaker at technical symposia and a contributor to various technical journals. He is also involved in the FIRST Robotics Competition, a multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve robotic engineering design problems.

Board of Advisors


Kevin McCarthy
Principal, MoonRaker Associates
CoroWare Advisory Board Member

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.

John Long, Ph.D.
CoroWare Advisory Board Member

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.
 


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