James M. Phillips
Vice Chairman
Mark A. Darty
Executive Vice President of Research, Development & Manufacturing
Brad R. Silver
Vice President of Business Development
David A. Zaleski
Vice President of Finance and Comptroller
Dr. Gunnar Lovhoiden, PhD.
Director of Advanced Technology
James M. Phillips
President, CEO and Chairman of the Board
James M. (Jim) Phillips has enjoyed an exciting career starting companies and guiding them through successful IPO’s, pioneering new technologies such as the PDA, digital cell phones, fixed cellular, the cable modem and internet multimedia into major industry-leading positions.
Effective June 1, 2007, Phillips transitioned from CEO and Board Chairman to that of Vice-Chairman in order to better interface with the medical and financial communities embracing Luminetx technologies.
One of Information Week’s 2004 Innovators of the Year, Phillips began his career with Nortel Networks, holding various management positions including vice president. He was president and co-founder of SkyTel, the nation’s largest messaging company, which led to the PDA revolution.
As president and vice-chairman of Telular Corporation, Phillips helped pioneer the industry for wireless local loop cellular voice and data telephone, alarm and telemetry systems.
He then served as corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola, PCS and Multimedia divisions, where his team invented the cable modem.
Phillips co-founded iPIX Corporation and, as chairman and CEO, led the company to become what Forbes called “the Kodak of the internet.” The company invented the virtual tours that are now a staple on real estate, hotel and entertainment Web sites, and the only 360 x 360° security camera system used by the White House and many government agencies and corporations, and developed the popular image submission process and system utilized by millions of users on eBAY.
Phillips has held the position of CEO in Residence and special advisor to the Private Equity Groups at Morgan Keegan & Company. Phillips holds patents in cell phone, PDA and data modem design.
As founding Chairman and CEO of the FedEx Institute of Technology (FIT), Phillips helped establish this leading research park on the campus of the University of Memphis. Information Week called FIT “the technology industry’s newest center for innovation,” and WIRED magazine compared it to the Media Lab at MIT.
Phillips’s contributions as an innovator and business leader have been chronicled in many national publications, including Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, Red Herring, The Standard, WIRED, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Today. He has appeared numerous times on Fox News, CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, the BBC and CBS Morning News.
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Mark A. Darty
Executive Vice President of Research, Development
& Manufacturing
Mr. Darty is responsible for all research, development and product manufacturing at Luminetx. He has extensive technology and product development experience along with a proven track record in transitioning products to the market. Mr. Darty was born in Memphis in 1964. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and later earned a Masters of Science in Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
In 1988, Mr. Darty joined the research and engineering division of General Dynamics in Fort Worth, TX where he designed and developed new avionics for the F-16 fighter aircraft. In 1990 he moved to a senior engineering position at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (now Boeing) in Huntsville, AL. There he founded and directed advanced technology groups that created a host of new products ranging from automated, solid state power systems for NASA to wearable computers for the US Army and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). His first patented invention attracted interest from NASA and led to equipment that went into service on the International Space Station. As a senior member of technical management, he was responsible for developing and transitioning $ millions in advanced technology. His leadership at McDonnell Douglas won him such recognition as the company's Silver Eagle Award. In recognition of his contribution to space exploration he was awarded a US flag flown in orbit on the Space Shuttle in 1996.
In 1998, he joined Brother International Corporation, a global consumer electronics company with home offices in Japan. As Senior Director and head of Brother's North American technology research, he established global R&D cooperation among business units and partner firms in the USA, Europe and Japan. He created and managed long range technology projects, built multi-million dollar advanced scientific laboratories, created an intellectual property portfolio of fundamental patents, and developed many futuristic products. In a public ceremony in 2004, he stunned the regional technology community by presenting Governor Bredesen of Tennessee with a framed image containing a microchip with a nanometer scale Tennessee state flag. The device was produced from millions of individual molecules specially fabricated in the nanotechnology laboratory he created and directed in Memphis, TN.
Mr. Darty has demonstrated repeated breakthrough innovation and the vision and determination to follow through from idea to reality. He holds several patents in key areas such as nanotechnology, imaging devices, micro optical displays, micro fluidics, software engineering, power electronics and control systems.
He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Herff College of Engineering at the University of Memphis, the State of Tennessee Technology Roadmap Advisory Board and the Memphis Area Technology Council.
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Brad R. Silver
Vice President of Business Development
Mr. Silver brings 15 years of marketing and business development experience to Luminetx. In the course of his career, he has conducted business in over 30 countries and helped companies to pioneer the strategy and products needed to achieve growth in new markets.
Silver is a former Director of Marketing for Thomas & Betts, a global manufacturer of products for the communications, utility, and electrical markets. He served in key leadership capacities within multiple divisions and was part of the turn-around team that guided Thomas & Betts from significant operating losses to double digit profits. Silver launched a business in Malaysia that generated $35 million in annual sales and a Dubai sales presence to support the company’s growing Middle East presence. Silver also drove strategic planning for the company and its $1 billion international division.
Prior to joining Thomas & Betts, Silver was the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regional manager for MacLean Power Systems, a Chicago-based manufacturer. In this role he doubled territory sales within four years, founded and managed multi-million dollar joint ventures in Switzerland and South Africa, developed plans to privatize the Ugandan power grid, and secured a $25 million product agreement for a Pakistan power project.
Silver began his career as a defense and foreign policy advisor to U.S. Senator John Seymour of California. For the senator, Silver aided a constituent with the capture of a $1 billion postal service contract. Silver helped the Senator to marshal funding support for the B-2 bomber, and to define positions on critical foreign affairs matters such as the first war against Iraq.
Mr. Silver has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston University.
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David A. Zaleski
Vice President of Finance
Mr. Zaleski comes to Luminetx with over twenty years of broad-based financial experience in a variety of manufacturing industries including fifteen in the medical device business.
After spending five years with Schering-Plough in Memphis as both a financial analyst and manufacturing analyst, Mr. Zaleski spent ten years with Wright Medical, Inc. progressing through a variety of financial roles in cost accounting, general accounting, and budgeting. He left his position as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis to co-found a venture-backed trauma company and served five years as its C.F.O. Most recently, he was Controller and interim C.F.O. for the specialty chemical manufacturer Barr, Inc.
Mr. Zaleski earned his B.A. in Economics and Business from Hendrix College and holds an M.B.A in finance from the University of Memphis.
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Dr. Gunnar Lovhoiden, PhD.
Director of Advanced Technology
Dr. Gunnar Lovhoiden, one of the key collaborators on the VeinViewer™ Imaging System, earned both his Masters of Science and his Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee. His Ph.D project included the design and construction of a proof-of-principle VeinViewer™ prototype which demonstrated the feasibility of projecting vein patterns back onto the skin with the highest degree of accuracy. Additionally, he conducted a clinical pilot study that demonstrated the significant clinical utility of the VeinViewer™ device.
Dr. Lovhoiden's Masters project included the design and construction of a chest phantom for intravenous coronary angiography studies using K-emission x-rays. When available x-ray sources proved insufficient to generate the desired K-emission x-rays, Dr. Lovhoiden spent more than a year at Brookhaven National Laboratory designing and building an original x-ray generator from spare parts made available to him.
Prior to joining Luminetx, Dr. Lovhoiden spent 6 years teaching Engineering and Engineering Technology courses ranging from Basic Electronics and Microprocessors to Engineering Mechanics and Engineering Economy.
Dr. Lovhoiden has co-authored 16 papers ranging from vein imaging to bone densitometry.
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