Picarro’s singular mission is to produce the world’s highest performance and easiest to use gas analyzers. Our analyzers serve a wide variety of markets including atmospheric science, greenhouse gas measurement, air quality, food safety, hydrology, biomaterials testing, ecology, environmental justice, semi-conductor, industrial process gas measurement, and landfill gas measurement. With ppt sensitivity to %-level measurements, months or years of calibration-free operation, and a quick and easy set-up, this incredibly rare combination of attributes enables our customers to make the highest quality measurements both in the modern lab and in the most remote locations imaginable.
Every possible source of industrial and municipal emissions are subject to increasing regulation either for worker safety, to improve air quality, or as part of larger state, national and international greenhouse gas reduction strategies and protocols. Regardless of whether the customer is an expert scientist who values performance foremost, an engineer who demands quality and uptime from a solution, or a field technician who values simple installation and little maintenance, Picarro analyzers are the emerging standard.
Based on technology originally licensed from Stanford University and further strengthened by 9 additional Picarro patents, our CRDS analyzers offer unprecedented sensitivity, selectivity and stability all in an elegantly simple, turnkey design. All Picarro products are produced through a world-class manufacturing process that ensures rock-solid reliability. Picarro is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Michael Woelk is a proven leader with a consistent record of building new business for both startups and leading companies in the scientific instrument industry. Prior to joining Picarro, Michael was vice president of marketing for Varian Inc.’s world-wide scientific instrument business, where he was responsible for all enterprise-wide in-bound and out-bound marketing processes. Previously, he was vice president of sales and marketing for Ansys Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of sample preparation products for bio-pharmaceutical applications and kits for clinical toxicology screening. Before joining Ansys, Michael was a co-founder of MetaChem Technologies, Inc., an emerging leader in liquid chromatography consumables for life science and environmental markets. MetaChem was acquired by Ansys in 2000. Michael has a B.S. in microbiology from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Mark Davis has been involved in sales and executive level sales management for analytical instrumentation in trace gas analysis and environmental monitoring since 1989. Before joining Picarro, he served as director of sales for the Hach Company, a division of Danaher Corporation. This group manufactures and distributes analytical instruments and reagents used to test the quality of water in municipal and industrial markets. Prior to that, he was vice president of North American operations for Orbisphere Laboratories, a division of the environmental water and waste management firm the Pennon Group. Davis received his B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Georgia and his M.S. in management of technology from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Tims expertise in the energy sector has been honed from 17 years in both the petroleum and natural gas industries, where he held leadership roles in operations, engineering, and construction. Most recently, Tim was the special project manager for Pacific Gas and Electric with The Spear Group, Inc. Prior to his role at Spear, Tim was the director of project management and entitlements at a real estate investment trust in New York City. Tim also served as the vice president of construction at FC Development Group LLC. Tim graduated from the University of Delaware with his B.S. in mechanical engineering. He also holds an executive master’s of engineering in management of technology from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Business School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Jan Willem Poelmann joined Picarro to lead the company’s European sales and operations. Jan Willem previously was with Juniper Networks, where he was responsible for their Service Provider Alliance business in EMEA from 2005-2010. Prior to Juniper, Jan Willem held various executive sales and marketing positions at Dell, Corvis Corporation, and Nortel Networks. Jan Willem received his B.A. and M.B.A. from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Subra brings to Picarro more than two decades of engineering and R&D expertise from the life sciences, semiconductor and high technology instrumentation markets. Before joining Picarro, he was at Artium Technologies Inc., which he co-founded and where he served as vice president of engineering, with responsibilities ranging from the development of advanced particle characterization instrumentation to business strategy. Prior to Artium, he was the senior director of engineering at Illumina Inc., where he led the instrument development and consumable engineering activities related to next generation DNA sequencers. Subras work at Illumina enabled the company to dominate the high-throughput sequencing market and revolutionize genomics research and clinical diagnostics. Subra also held senior operations and engineering positions at KLA-Tencor and Schlumberger, Ltd. He has a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.B.A.
Suresh Pisharody brings to Picarro a unique combination of proven marketing leadership experience in the technology industry and broad engineering expertise honed in multiple industries. Suresh was most recently the director of product marketing at Illumina Inc., the market leader in genetic analysis instrumentation, and one of the fastest growing technology companies in the U.S. At Illumina, Suresh played a leadership role in growing the companys genome sequencing business from virtually no presence at all in the multi-billion dollar sequencing industry to its becoming a market leader within five years. While at Illumina, Suresh launched some of the most commercially successful genetic analysis instruments in the history of the life sciences industry. Prior to Illumina, Suresh held marketing roles of increasing responsibility at Applied Biosystems (now Life Technologies), engineering positions at NASAs Ames Research Center and management positions in the chemicals industry.
Kristen develops and manages RepairPals business-to-business and co-marketing relationships.
A veteran in the online automotive space, she has worked with some of the great brands in the industry. Prior to RepairPal, she was an independent marketing consultant with Dealer.com, DrivingSales, ADP Dealer Services and DriverSide, where she focused on DriverSides relationship with Advance Auto Parts.
Prior to her consulting work, Kristen was the business development director for Edmunds.com, where she managed key advertising partnerships with AutoNation, Carfax, Cars.com, CarsDirect, Experian, Geico, Jumpstart and Progressive Insurance.
Kristen was also the director of marketing at Dealix, where, alongside her mentor Dean Evans, now CMO of Subaru of America, she helped build Dealix from its early startup days to its successful acquisition by The Cobalt Group, now a part of ADP.
Alan brings to Picarro over 25 years of professional experience gained in Asia, Europe and North America. Before joining Picarro, he was the senior director of human resources at Tesla Motors, where he served during a period of explosive growth at the company, hiring over 1,000 new employees during a two-year period and building Teslas human resources programs and facilities from the ground up. Prior to Tesla, Alan was the vice president of human resources at Symyx Technologies, a scientific R&D integration partner to companies in the life sciences, chemicals, energy, electronics and consumer products industries. Alan also held senior management positions at Hewlett Packard, Nortel, Autodesk and Network Appliance. Alan received his post-graduate diploma in human resources from Middlesex University and his graduate degree in business from Dorset University.
Jeff brings over 16 years of senior management experience in operations, sales and marketing. Prior to Picarro, Jeff was vice president of operations and administration at CardioDx, where he brought up manufacturing and the company infrastructure and meanwhile launched a gene expression test for cardiovascular disease. Before that Jeff was vice president of operations at Peak Surgical, where he developed manufacturing and commercialized the Pulsar RF Surgery line. Jeff also ran worldwide manufacturing for Siemens Ultrasound and Stryker Endoscopy. Jeff began his career at Stryker in sales and then ran a marketing group. Jeff graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, with a B.S. in general engineering. Upon graduation Jeff served as an officer and helicopter pilot in the US Army.
Laura Perrone has extensive experience leading technology companies across multiple industries through rapid growth and expansion. Prior to joining Picarro in November 2011 as Chief Financial Officer, Laura was Senior Vice President and CFO of Omneon, a maker of technology products for digital media distribution, management and storage acquired by Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) in 2010. Prior to Omneon, Perrone held CFO roles at SaaS software and chip design companies Icarian (acquired by Workstream, NASDAQ:WSTM) and Rendition (acquired by Micron Technologies, NASDAQ: MU), respectively and held senior management positions in computer systems-related companies. Laura has a B.S. in applied economics from the University of San Francisco.
INSTAAR, which is affiliated with the University of Colorado, is devoted to studying biogeochemical processes that control environmental change on human timescales, and works to develop new, automated techniques for measuring environmental stable isotopes. Prior to INSTAAR, Bruce was with the Water Resources Division of the USGS, Project Office Glaciology. He holds a M.Sc. in geological sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has authored over 20 papers, primarily on paleoclimate research, glacier hydrology, and isotopic methods.
Dr. Beverly Law’s research focuses on the role of forests, woodlands and shrublands in the global carbon cycle. Her approach is interdisciplinary, involving in situ and remote sensing observations, and the use of models to study the effects of climate and climate-related disturbances (wildfire), as well as land-use change and management that influence carbon and water cycling across a region, whether over seasons or decades. As part of this research, Dr. Law studies the underlying biogeochemical processes and trace gas exchanges between these ecosystems and the atmosphere. She is also an expert in instrumentation and methodology for Eddy Covariance / Flux research, a key tool for carbon and water cycle studies.
Professor Wofsy is considered among the world’s leaders in measurement of greenhouse gas dynamics and of carbon emissions and cycling at local, regional and global levels. He is one of the pioneers of in-flight measurement of greenhouse gases and has also performed dozens of terrestrial research projects aimed at better modeling how greenhouse gases are emitted and cycle through the biosphere. His work has focused on changes in the composition of the stratosphere and troposphere, at first in theory and modeling and later in field and laboratory studies.
His current research emphasizes the effects of terrestrial ecosystems on the global carbon cycle, aircraft measurements of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the impacts of climate change and land use on ecosystems and atmospheric composition.
Professor Zare began his career as an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965, but moved to the University of Colorado in 1966 where he held joint appointments in the departments of chemistry, and physics and astrophysics. In 1969 he was appointed to a full professorship in the chemistry department at Columbia University, becoming the Higgins Professor of Natural Science in 1975. In 1977 he moved to Stanford University. He was named Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University in 2005.
Professor Zare is renowned for his research in the area of laser chemistry, resulting in a greater understanding of chemical reactions at the molecular level. Through experimental and theoretical studies he has made seminal contributions to the knowledge of molecular collision processes and has contributed very significantly to solving a variety of problems in chemical analysis.
“Prior to joining Benchmark, Alex led C-Cube and DiviCom, two pioneering companies that drove the MPEG standard to dominance in consumer electronics and broadcasting. Alex founded C-Cube in 1988. In 1994, he took the company public, and in 1998 he orchestrated C-Cubes acquisition of DiviCom. By 2000, C-Cube was generating a half-billion dollars in annual revenue with 1,200 employees worldwide.
Widely recognized as industry leaders, C-Cube and DiviCom were the recipients of several prestigious awards, including an Emmy – the first ever awarded to a semiconductor company. C-Cube was also voted the Most Respected Public Company as well as the Best Financially Managed Company by the Fabless Semiconductor Association.
Alex serves on the Boards of Ambarella, D2S, Infinera (INFN), Mu Security, Newport Media, Picarro and Xoomsys. Previously he was a board member of Decru (acquired by Network Appliance), and Entrisphere (acquired by Ericsson).
Alex holds a Ph.D.
Dr. Luc Vincent is a director of engineering at Google, where he leads a number of Google Maps-related projects, including Google Street View. Prior to his work at Google, Dr. Vincent was chief scientist and then vice president of document imaging at LizardTech, Inc., a developer of advanced image compression software, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company’s document imaging product line. Earlier in his career, Dr. Vincent led an R&D team at the prestigious Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Additionally, he was director of software development at Scansoft, Inc. (now Nuance Communications, Inc.) and held various technical management positions at Xerox Corporation.
Prior to joining DAG in 1999, John was a Managing Director at Amsterdam Pacific, an investment bank specializing in media and telecommunications. While at Amsterdam Pacific Corporation, John worked with BBU Mezzanine Fund I and BBU Mezzanine Fund II, where he sourced, supported and exited mezzanine investments across a number of industries. Previously, John worked at Octel Communications (now Lucent Technologies) and Tandem Computers (now H-P) in marketing and strategic planning roles. He also worked at JP Morgan in both capital markets and corporate finance. John received a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. John led DAG II’s investments into Raza Microelectronics, Agami, Tropos Networks, Qlusters, Centrata, Kovio, Pedestal Networks, Trapeze Networks, Topspin Communications and Entrisphere. He also serves on the board at Trapeze Networks, Qlusters, Pedestal Networks and Entrisphere.
Roger came to Greylock after a successful career as the CEO of Micom Systems, a Greylock sponsored company he and a partner started in 1976.
Roger is on the board of Picarro and Silver Peak Systems. He also served on the board of and led Greylock’s investment in companies such as Ascend (acquired by Lucent), Argon Networks (acquired by Siemens), Crosscomm (acquired by Olicom), Maker Communications (acquired by Conexant), Openwave, RightNow Technologies (IPO in 2004), Sahara Networks (acquired by Cascade), Sirocco Systems (acquired by Sycamore), Syndesis (acquired by Subex Azure), Whitetree (acquired by Ascend), Xircom (acquired by Intel), and Zeitnet (acquired by Cabletron).
He is a graduate of Cambridge University.
Prior to joining Picarro in 1999, Eric held research positions at Stanford University, including senior research associate at the High Energy Physics Laboratory (HEPL), where he directed research in the areas of medical applications, accelerator science, solid-state/surface science, molecular materials/chemistry, biophysics, and free electron laser science. At Stanford, Eric developed a number of key cavity ring-down spectroscopy techniques. Eric has been a project manager at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory at Duke University, where he helped lead the design and construction of an atomic beam polarized ion source. Eric received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Tom took over as CEO of Infinera in January, 2010. Prior to that, he served as Infinera’s Chief Operating Officer since October 2006 and held key engineering roles since April 2004. Before Infinera, Mr. Fallon held positions as vice president, corporate quality and development operations, and general manager of the Optical Transport Business Unit of Cisco Systems, Inc. Mr. Fallon holds a B.S.M.E. and M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.