Mat Zuckerman Ph.D.

Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technical Officer of ZolarCell, Mat is a Technologist who in his career has invented, designed, prototyped, and manufactured numerous products and named as “Innovator of the Year” by the Baltimore Daily Record.   Exemplary of the products is cow fat-based motor oil that was named “Product of the Year” by Popular Mechanics Magazine.  Products were patented, commercialized, marketed, and sold to commercial and consumers markets or licensed to corporations, industries, and consumers.  Corporation that acquired products comprise: Dart Kraft Industries, Envirotech Corporation, Borg Warner, North American Rockwell, and Televideo Systems.  As an Engineer and Scientist, Mat is an Informed designer of water and wastewater treatment plant, electronics and software, Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICS), instrumentation engineer that developed the method for low level Chemical Oxygen Demand, material scientist that designed and manufactured solid state sensor to measure gases at parts per million levels in air, that include Hydrogen Sulfide, Chlorine, Helium and Hydrocarbons by changed in electrical work function, formulated the electrical responding chemicals for information displays, formulated nano size particles into a highly effective penetration oil for unlocking rusted metal bolts, a motor oil for racing cars that reduces engine friction to increase net horsepower, a chemiluminescent paint that reacts with the oxygen in air rather that the two solution products that work like glow sticks, the Graphene Carbon/Hexagonal Boron Nitride crystalline for solar cells that established a new higher efficient milestone, chemicals engineered to increase the mileage and reduce the wear of gasoline and diesel engines and formulator of “Green” chemicals to convert heavy crude oil into lighter crude oil that are Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS). Mat holds three degrees from New York University, Bachelors of Civil Engineering, Masters of Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Environmental Engineering.  He is also a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Alfred P. Sloan School.

Brian Kennedy

Associate

Brian is an entrepreneur, experienced nanofabricator, and pioneering founder of Kennedy Labs. Kennedy Labs is a spin off of the National Research Council of Canada, first to world markets through global distribution, and focuses on 2D material and subcomponent leveraging 2D materials for industrial applications. He holds a certificate in nanofabrication from Cornell University and is a nanofabrication User at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, Columbia University in NYC, and the University of Ottawa and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Brian serves as a founding advisory board member of the National Graphene Association in the United States, and at the Global Center of Advanced Material Research in Ottawa. He graduated from McGill University with a bachelor's degree.