Management Team
Doug Giese, Ph.D. CEO. Dr. Giese was the founder, Chairman and CEO of AP Labs.
Yu Qiao, Ph.D. CTO. Dr. Qiao was the inventor of AgileZorb and is an Assoc. Prof. of Materials Science at UCSD.
Advisors and Consultants
Greg Shelton (board member, advisor) was the Exec. VP of Engineering, Technology, Manufacturing and QA for Raytheon Corporate. Mr. Shelton oversaw all programs for Raytheon and helped establish the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.
RADM (ret.) James Johnson, M.D. was the Commander of the Balboa Naval Hospital, was a co-developer of body armor for the Marine Corps
Len Stuessel (advisor) was the V.P. of Manufacturing for General Dynamics and is helping AgileNano establish its manufacturing facility.
Wayne Patterson has 20 years experience in the sporting goods industry.
For more information, please contact Douglas Giese, Ph.D., CEO
The AgileNano Story
Agilezorb was conceived during research on energy absorbing nano-composites for helmets, bumpers, body armor, etc. Under certain conditions, only a small fraction of material contributed to the energy dissipation process. The search for alternate materials was inspired by the observation that at least one of the components needs to be highly "flexible," so as to take advantage of the entire surface area of the nanoporous particles. Realizing that liquid is the most flexible material, successful experiments demonstrated that the solid-liquid interactions could be greatly amplified by using a suspension of nanoporous particles in a liquid or a gel.
