Dr. Nalin Kumar, is a serial entrepreneur and a celebrated inventor with extensive experience in development and commercialization of high technology products. He currently holds ~75 isuued US patents, 15 international patents and has over 20 patents pending. He is the inventor of the Amorphic Diamond TM electron emitter cathode and has more than 35 patents in this area, which led to the formation of a publically traded company in 1995. Before starting UHV, he was the VP/Director of R&D at SI Diamond Technology, Inc. (SIDT) and led a 200-person team (encompassing Lawrence Livermore Nat. Labs, Argonne National Labs, Sandia National Labs, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow State University and Phillips Corporate Labs in Eindhoven) for diamond cold cathode field emission display research and development effort. He also helped SIDT go public and raise $40 million on the NASDAQ market for flat panel displays based on his inventions. He started UHV with a single SBIR Phase I project from DoD in 1998 and grew it to ~$5 million in commercial sales in three years with over 100 employees in 2001. During 2000, he spun off LightMatrix Technologies, Inc. to commercialize the optical coating technology and raised $22M during year 2000 from venture capitalists. In 2009, Dr. Kumar, as CTO and part owner of Stellar Micro Devices, Inc., developed a Blood Irradiator and helped raise necessary capital to launch this FDA product. More recently, he launched Sortera Alloys, Inc., (www.sorteratechnologies.com) using venture funding from blue-chip VCs including Breakthrough Ventures, Chrysalix, Assembly Ventures and Novelis (world’s largest aluminum sheet producer and supplier for Ford’s F150 aluminum truck). As explained on the Sortera website, this spin-off company is based on the AI sorting technology developed at UHV through his 7 issued US, 15 International patents and 20 pending patents in the sorting technology. His hobbies include oil painting, wood sculpture and science fiction.