KVA STAINLESS™ - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Principal of Rader Technology Licensing
Dennis Rader is the principal of Rader Technology Licensing (RTL), a Woodbridge, Connecticut consulting firm he founded in 2000. RTL specializes in the licensing, transfer and valuation of technology and the strategic management of intellectual property. The firm serves technology intensive clients such as ExxonMobil Corporation, Scuderi Group, Pitney Bowes, Great Point Energy and Alcatel Lucent. Before establishing RTL, Dr. Rader was Mobil Oil Corporation's Licensing Executive responsible for the worldwide licensing of the Company's Exploration and Production Technologies. In earlier affiliations he served in executive and management positions at Schlumberger, NL Industries and Teleco (now part of Baker Hughes) and was professor of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in engineering and technology management.
Job Titles:
- Mechanical Engineer
- Principal
Responsible for realizing KVA STAINLESS™ R&D efforts, Danny oversees technology and new application development. Prior to joining KVA STAINLESS™, Danny worked in positions of increasing responsibility designing high-volume consumer products, industrial equipment and medical devices. Danny received his BSME, summa cum laude, from the University of California, San Diego and his MSME from Stanford University, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He holds his Professional Engineer's License in the state of California.
Danny Codd completed his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, where his research was focused on developing a new type of solar thermal power system. He received a MS from Stanford and BS summa cum laude, from UC San Diego, both in mechanical engineering. He holds his CA Professional Engineer's License and is a named inventor on 6 issued US patents, and 10+ pending applications, ranging from medical devices to materials processing and renewable energy.
Professor German has supervised 100 thesis, published over 960 articles, 24 patents, and 16 books, including Mathematical Relations in Particulate Materials Processing (2008), Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials Processing (2005), Liquid Phase Sintering (1985), Sintering Theory and Practice (1996), and Powder Injection Molding - Design and Applications (2003). He edited 19 books and co-chaired more than 30 conferences.
Joe oversees all business operations from production needs, marketing direction, to product development and everything in-between. His strongest asset being a wealth of resources for getting every job done. After 6 years with KVA STAINLESS™ he's seen a lot of projects and learned to tackle each one with only the best of resources. He can answer any question you have pertaining to KVA STAINLESS™ patented technology.
The man with a vision (and proven 'golden touch'), Ed began his metallurgical career in the early 1950's. In 1953, Ed founded Hi-Temp, Inc. in Chicago, Il, specializing in copper brazing and bright annealing of stainless steel. Mr. McCrink saw the great potential in production thermal processing and subsequently founded Tru-Temp, Inc., which specialized in conventional heat treating of medium to high carbon steels and alloyed steels using very large controlled atmosphere furnaces. Tru-Temp heat treated for the major US construction earth-moving industry as well as for many foundry and forging companies. Tru-Temp grew to become one of the largest commercial heat treating companies in the Midwest. In the early 1960's, Mr. McCrink went on to found Steel Treating, Inc., which focused on continuous bright annealing. After successfuly selling the thermal processing plants, Ed had various other business successes, including domestic and international high-volume smoke detector manufacturing and real estate investing. The technology behind KVA STAINLESS™ continues to be the focus of Ed's lifelong ambition.
KVA STAINLESS™ president, Mr. Ed McCrink, founded Hi-Temp, Inc. in 1953 and grew the company to become one of the largest processors of martensitic stainless steels in North America. Since successfully selling the Hi-Temp, Inc. plants in the 1970's, he has continuously pursued his vision of utilizing commonly available martensitic stainless steels to reduce weight and increase strength in a wide variety of structures.
Neal C. Nordstrom has over 20 years in executive, technical, business development and operations management roles with an emphasis in contract manufacturing for medical device, power generation, dental implant and aerospace industries. During this time Nordstrom served as President and CEO of Veridiam, leading the company through divestiture from Carpenter Technology Corporation and building the business both organically and by completing three add-on acquisitions. As a senior leader within Carpenter Technology Corporation, he served as General Manager of Carpenter's Special Products Corporation for four years and led Carpenter's Parmatech business unit after its acquisition.
Nordstrom holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration with a finance emphasis from San Diego State University. He served as a nuclear power and surface warfare trained officer in the United States Navy.
Scott facilitates KVA STAINLESS™ in-house tube production, managing and maintaining the shop's machinery, specialized in tubular products. He has an eye for quality and is always improving production methods with hands on experience. Every step of the production process is managed by Scott, assuring the highest quality product each and every time. He enjoys bringing the KVA STAINLESS™ technology to life in some of the highest quality bicycle frames made with KVA's MS3™, and delivering the best possible customer service.