Craig J. London - President and Chief Executive Officer.  Before joining eCullet, Craig served as Executive Vice President of Solectron Corporation and President of Solectron Global Services.  Prior to Solectron, he was Chief Executive Officer of SMART Modular Technologies, a $1.2 billion supplier of memory modules to original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), and Force Computers, a $300 million supplier of computer assemblies to OEMs.  Craig has also served as Chief Executive Officer of Electronics Systems Associates and Diva Communications, Vice President and General Manager of Nortel Networks, and General Partner and Managing Director Technology Investments at Safeguard Scientific.  Craig earned an undergraduate degree from University of California at Berkeley in Physics and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

 

Farook Afsari - Chairman & Founder.  Farook has 30 years of experience as an engineer, project manager, and business unit manager.  His specialty has been in real-time control systems.  Prior associations have been with FMC Corporation, Schlitz Brewing, Harnischfeger, Raychem and Intuit.  He has a wide range of technology development, program management, and business development experience.  He received a BSEE from Marquette University and an MBA in International Business from American Graduate School of International Management.

 

Mark D. Muenchow - Chief Financial Officer.  Mark brings over 30 years of start-up and Wall Street experience to eCullet.  Prior to joining eCullet, he was CFO and V.P., Operations at PureSense Environmental, a leading provider of water efficiency and effectiveness Software as a Service (SaaS) to commercial food growers, and Interim CFO for NanoStellar Inc.  A co-founder and CFO / COO of the manufacturing services company WESTT, Inc., serving Silicon Valley OEMs, he financed and managed growth of the company to revenues of $30 million.  As a Principal in Corporate Finance at Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., in New York, Mark managed IPO and follow-on offerings and debt financings, M&A transactions, project financings and financial advisory assignments for corporate clients. Mark has a BSE from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

 

Ann T. Nguyen - General Counsel and Vice President, Administration.  Ann has over 25 years of experience handling legal and business matters for public and privately-held companies in various industries including high-tech, real estate, and bio-tech.  She served as General Counsel and Secretary for SMART Modular Technologies during its IPO in 2006 and follow-on offering in 2007 and as Assistant General Counsel for Real Property Services.  Before attending law school, she worked in the Audit and Consulting departments of KPMG.  Ann earned a B.S. in Accounting (cum laude) from USC and a J.D. from UC Davis.  She also attended the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at UCLA.  Ann is a licensed attorney and a CPA in California.

 

Charles Porta - Vice President of Marketing and Sales.  Charles has over 40 years of experience in operations, sales, and finance. He was President of Container Recycling Alliance (CRA) for ten years, managing the development and growth of the company to become the second largest glass processor in the U.S., with 14 glass processing facilities across the U.S.  His experience encompasses all phases of glass processing from acquiring the incoming supply of post-consumer recycled glass and preprocessing to ensuring quality of furnace-ready cullet is delivered to the end user.

 

Kerry Martin - Vice President of Operations and Sourcing.  Kerry has over 20 years of experience in Recycling and Solid Waste Management, in both the public and private sectors.  Most recently he was Division Manager for FCR Casella, overseeing numerous material recycling facilities along with maintaining processing and business development responsibilities. He served as Market Area / District Manager with Waste Management / Recycle America (WMRA), where he was responsible for multiple Glass Processing facilities, as well as Material Recycling Facilities (MRFs) and mixed plastic processing operations. He also served as President of the NY State Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA).  Kerry attended Broome Community College and the Cornell Waste Management Institute.

 

Dr. Kasra Khazeni - Vice President of Technology.  Kasra has over 12 years of experience as an innovator holding technical and managerial positions in various industries such as semiconductors, novel displays, metrology equipment, micro-electro mechanical systems, and solar energy.  Kasra earned a B.A. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley.

 

Other Members of the eCullet Team:

 

Kamiar Fariba - Director of Software Engineering. Kamiar has over 15 years of experience as a design and development engineer and has significant experience with hardware and software on a wide range of real-time control systems. Kamiar earned a BSEE from Oklahoma State University and a MSEE from Ohio State University.

 

Dr. Yue Min Wong - Director of Engineering Operations and Supply Chain Management. Yue Min has more than 25 years of experience in the computer industry. He has architected and managed the development of network monitoring systems at Northern Telecom Canada, Ltd. At FMC Corporation, he served as technical lead and deputy program manager for a research project in unmanned robotic systems for the US Army. Most recently, he was Director of Engineering at ViDeOnline, Inc. where he managed a staff of 20 engineers and developed a scalable, fully redundant, online multi-media, secure content delivery system. Yue Min earned a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

 

Don Ochoa - Director of Business Development. Prior to joining eCullet, Don worked as an Investor Relations Associate at New Mountain Capital LLC, a leverage buyout firm with over $10 billion of assets under management. While at New Mountain, Don worked with senior management to evaluate investment opportunities and identify target markets for future portfolio company investments. Additionally, Don contributed to the expansion of NMC by assisting a senior partner identify, develop, and launch a new investment product. Don graduated from Stanford University in 2002 with an honors degree in International Relations and a minor in Political Science and is pursuing an MBA at the University of California Haas School of Business.

 

Rob Lion - Director of Engineering and Manufacturing. Rob has over six years of experience as a mechanical design engineer, including integration and testing of mechanical, electronic, and software systems. Prior to joining eCullet, he worked in the hard disk drive industry at Western Digital Corporation. Rob earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and an M.Eng. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University.