CLEAN SCIENCES - Key Persons


Ali Farvid

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
Ali Farvid, a Stanford alumnus, and Clean Sciences, Inc. staff consultant, has more than 30 years of experience in metal finishing, materials compatibility, and surface cleanliness issues. Ali, consults with many of the Silicon Valley high tech companies, who specialize in accelerators, fuel cells, and semiconductor equipment manufacturers, where clean parts and plated deposits are essential in the goal of components performing entirely as expected. His expertise in proper and effective metal finishing practices has been critical to the success in optimizing the performance of metal products under rigorous cutting edge technology specified conditions.

Dave Mortenson

Job Titles:
  • Quality Manager
  • Quality Manager & Director of Environmental Affairs
Dave joined the team at Clean Sciences in 2005. He has been in the Cleaning and Metal finishing business since 1982 and is known for his work with numerous local regulatory agencies in regards to Waste Treatment. He is currently a member of Union Sanitary District's Industrial Advisory Council and owns several certificates from UC Santa Barbara for Waste Minimization. Dave has an extensive background in Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, Process Control, and Operations which has been instrumental in upgrading the Clean Sciences entire company to meet the next generation of cleaning requirements.

James Ziraldo

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager
James joined CSI in 1996 after serving 4 years in the U.S. Navy. James quickly learned the aspects of the Cleaning business and assisted Clean Sciences fast growth from a start-up company. In 1997, James was promoted to Operations Supervisor and was instrumental in developing Clean Science's Quick Turn capabilities. In 2000, James was promoted to Operations Manager because of his extensive knowledge of Customer Cleaning Specifications and his emphasis on Customer Service with the industries stringent scheduling.

Jonathan W. Kaye - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • President
Jonathan has a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and began his engineering career at Allied-Signal Aerospace-Kansas City Division in 1983 as a Weapons Senior Engineer. Responsible for the design, fabrication, maintenance and operation of product verification and testing. He was trained in Quality Assurance methods and operations for maximum results in the manufacturing arena. Providing High Quality in Military Weapons laid the foundation for attention to detail and standardizing processes to insure repeatability and efficiencies. Jonathan founded Clean Sciences, Inc. in October of 1994 to provide micro-decontamination and critical cleaning of parts for the semiconductor equipment manufacturing, optical, medical, automotive, and aerospace industries. His attention to customer service, development of partnerships, and engineering background laid the ground work for CSI's critical cleaning with same day and 24 hour turn around and door to door service. Clean Sciences, Inc. were awarded in June of 2000 as the Entrepeneour of the Year for a Service Company by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. CSI has been honored as one of the Fastest Growing Privately held companies in Silicon Valley six times (1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006).

Raquel Villaroman

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager
  • Executive Asst
  • Inc. in 1996 As an Office Manager
Raquel joined Clean Sciences, Inc. in 1996 as an Office Manager. Raquel is responsible for all activities relating to Payroll, Human Resources, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Accounting, and customer service including scheduling, tracking, and order status.

Snehal Patel

Job Titles:
  • Data Entry / Lab Technician
Snehal joined the Clean Science team in 2005. Snehal is responsible for day-to-day Customer Service issues and order data entry. He also serves as our Lab Technician responsible for quality assurances testing and SPC documentation of our cleaning solutions and baths per our CSI quality protocol.