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Peter Schultz, Ph. D.

Biography

Career Milestones

Name: Peter C. (Charles) Schultz, Ph.D.

Address:

•PO Box 87

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Essex, NY 12936

T/F 518-***-****

•6501 Red Hook Plaza

Suite 201

St Thomas, VI 00802

T/F 340-***-****

E-mail: abqjo0@r.postjobfree.com

Birthdate: December 3, 1942 New York, New York, USA

Marital status: Married, 4 grown children

Education:

BS 1964, Ceramic Engineering, Rutgers University

Ph.D. 1968, Ceramics Science, Rutgers University

Senior Executive Program 1984: MIT Sloan Business School

Key Personal Technical Accomplishments:

Co-inventor and developer of IVD and OVD (vapor deposition) processes to make optical fiber for telecommunications. These processes are the foundation for all manufacture of commercial fiber today. Corning (the world's largest fiber maker) uses exclusively the OVD process based on my personal efforts to champion this cost effective approach.

Co-inventor of doped fused silica glasses for optical fibers. All telecom fiber today use doped fused silica glasses.

Co-inventor of germania-doped fused silica for optical fibers. As principal inventor, I discovered in 1972 that germania-doped fused silica could be made by an OVD process (thereby avoiding vaporization) and was an outstanding fiber core glass. It eliminated the need for troublesome post-draw heat treatment to lower optical attenuation that plagued manufacture of titania-doped fibers. This discovery opened the door to the practical design and manufacture of both multimode and singlemode fibers. It was adopted immediately and remains today the core glass of choice for all telecommunication fiber.

Co-inventor in 1974 of a flame hydrolysis method to make silica glass planar optical waveguides. This method is used today by Lucent and others to make a wide range of planar waveguide devices for photonics applications.

Conducted ground-breaking fundamental glass research on the influence of a wide range of "impurities" on the optical properties of fused silica. Prepared fused silicas doped with a wide range of elements (including the 3D transition elements and rare earths) and determined the fundamental absorption characteristics of these elements in the glass on the ppb level. These reference data are used today by researchers throughout the world to troubleshoot contamination problems in fiber manufacture. Also determined the fundamental UV absorption edge for titanium and germanium in fused silica.

Determined the effect of titania on lowering the thermal expansion of fused silica over the range zero to 20%. These data allowed optimization of the amount of titania required to control the zero expansion point over a broad temperature range. Based on these results, 7.4 wt% titania was chosen (~1970) for Corning Code 7971 ULE glass for all optical applications (eg, satellite and ground-based optical mirrors for astronomical and camera systems).

Career Positions:

1967 to 1984: Corning, Inc. I held various technical positions from senior research scientist through research manager. In all cases I conducted both personal research and supervised technicians and scientists in their work on a wide range of glass research topics including optical fiber process and materials, fundamental visco-elastic theory and improved commercial glasses for TV, lamp and pharmaceutical applications. In my last job (manager of exploratory research 1982-84), my group of ~30 scientists and technicians searched for new glasses, processes and composites which could create new business opportunities for Corning.

1984 to 1986: SpecTran Corp. Vice President of Technology. Created and

managed the R/D group of this start-up fiber optic manufacturer. Recruited technical personnel and developed an R/D portfolio to support new products and manufacturing process improvements. Obtained government funding of ~$1 million per year to support development of missile and undersea fibers for military applications.

1986 to 1988: Galileo ElectroOptics Inc. Vice President of Technology. Managed a group of ~25 technical personnel to support the development of infra-red fiber optics based on ZBLAN and chalcogenide glasses, and to develop new methods to make multichannel plate amplifiers for night vision devices.

1988 to 2001: Heraeus Amersil, Inc. President. Responsible for all activities of this $200 million technical glass manufacturer specializing in fiber optics and semiconductor markets. HAI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH (the worlds largest manufacturer of fused silica) and is responsible for all business activities in North America. Products include cladding glass for optical fibers, specialty fiber preforms, optics for microlithography, wafer handling products (wafer carriers, diffusion furnace components, etc). Customers include Lucent, Corning, Applied Materials, Motorola, Intel, etc. In addition to managing the activities of this 800 person glass manufacturer, I am the technical advisor for several research and development activities of the parent company and Chairman of a $30 million joint venture crucible manufacturer for semiconductor grade silicon (Heraeus ShinEtsu America). During my tenure, HAI grew from $20 million to $200 million sales. I was lead contract negotiator in obtaining multi-year supply contracts with several key customers (including Lucent, Corning and Applied Materials) totaling ~$150 million sales per year.

2000: Heraeus Holding GmBH. Chief Technical Officer North America. In addition to my duties as President of HAI (see above), I was appointed CTO North America by the CEO of the Heraeus Holding (~$6 billion sales worldwide). In this role I assist all Heraeus Divisions in identifying/assessing new technologies and support their technical developments in North America.

1994 to Sep. 2000: Geltech Inc. Director of this privately held silica glass and specialty glass micro-optics manufacturer (~$10 million sales) in Orlando, FL. Elected Vice Chairman in 2000. Geltech was successfully sold to Lightpath Inc. (NASDAQ symbol: LPTH) in Sep. 2000 and the Board was dissolved.

1997 to present: BioSensor Inc. Founder and Chairman of this privately held start-up company developing fiber optic sensors with a group of Russian scientists. An initial product, a patented non-invasive blood glucose sensor for diabetics, has been demonstrated in our lab. Clinical trials are in progress.

Professional Society memberships:

National Academy of Engineering

American Ceramic Society (Fellow)

Optical Society of America

Keramos (Ceramics Honor Society)

Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)

Sigma Xi

Awards and Recognition:

International Glass Science (Weyl) Award (International Glass Congress 1977).

SPIE Technology Achievement Award (Society of Photo Industrial Engineers 1981)

ASM Engineering Materials Achievement Award (American Society of Metals 1983)

Outstanding Alumnus Award (Rutgers University 1983)

Scholes Award (Alfred University 1986)

National Inventors Hall of Fame (US Patent and Trademark Office of the Dept. of Commerce and National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations 1993)

American Innovator Award (first recipient-US Dept. of Commerce 1995)

McLaren Award (New Jersey Ceramic Association 1999)

Rutgers University Alumni Hall of Fame (Rutgers President and Alumni Association 2000)

National Medal of Technology (President of the United States 2000)

Publications: 29 technical publications and 26 US Patents.

Teaching Experience:

Cornell University Dept. of Material Science (Visiting Professor of Glass Science 1980-84).

George Washington University (taught fiber optics course in Continuing Engineering Education Dept. 1976-1994).

Georgia Tech (lecturer to Management of Technology course 1994-98).

University of Virginia (Visiting Lecturer in Darden School 1988-present).

Other: Expert witness and technical advisor for Corning in all fiber optic patent litigation (Corning won all suits).

Seagate/Quinta Technical Advisory Board (1996-98).

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