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  Dr. Robert Petcavich, 1976, 1977 and 1980
   

 

Dr Petcavich is currently Vice President and General Manager of Unipixel Displays Inc .  Dr Petcavich was Senior Vice President and CTO of Lumera Corporation in Bothell, WA a publicly traded nanotechnology polymer platform bioscience and molecular photonics technology Company. Robert J Petcavich has been the Chairman, CEO and CTO of several advanced materials and medical informatics technology companies. Dr Petcavich was Vice President of Deposition Technologies Inc from 1982 to 1988 an advanced materials company involved in electro optic and aerospace thin film materials development and manufacturing which was subsequently acquired by Brunswick Defense (NYSE:BC) and Material Sciences Corporation (NYSE:MSC) in 1986. From August 1988 until September 1995 Dr Petcavich was President and CEO of Alphascribe Express Inc an electronic medical records service enterprise, which was subsequently sold to Rodeer Systems.  Dr Petcavich was also founder, Chairman and CTO of Planet Polymer Technologies Inc (Nasdaq:POLY now PLNT) from 1992 until 2002 an advanced materials intellectual property development company recently merged with Allergy Free Inc of Houston, TX.  He was also founder, CEO and Chairman from 1996 until 2001 of Alife Medical Inc a Natural Language Processing software services provider for the medical billing industry now majority owned by Medquist (NASDAQ:MEDQ) a subsidiary of Philips Electronics. Dr Petcavich was also founder and Board member of Molecular Reflections Inc a MEMS based biotech design and discovery Platform Company as well as Polytronix Inc a custom LCD manufacturer of Richardson Texas. Dr Petcavich has a Ph.D. degree in Polymer Science, a Master of Science Degree in Solid State Science, and a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University, and completed the PMD executive management degree program at Harvard.  Dr Petcavich holds 24 issued United States patents in fields such as electro optic displays, biotechnology MEMS devices; time released animal neutraceuticals, produce shelf life extension technology, and handheld wireless devices.

 
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