Biographical
Information
Chief Executive Officer
Bob Keville is the chairman and chief executive officer of KMD Science, Inc. He has over 30 years of engineering experience with special expertise in systems design and instrument integration. He has several patents for environmental instrumentation and won the R&D 100 award for the novel miniature Ion Cyclotron Resonance mass spectrometer, which exhibited 100 atom sensitivity from mass 7 to 1000.
Bob has designed such diverse instruments as a biological spore collection system for the U.S. Department of Defense to a new patented XRF instrument that allows for the detection of dissolved metals to low ppb concentrations in near real time.
Bob has managed all phases of projects ranging from 500K to over 5M and, most recently, led in the design and installation of very-high-precision laser-mirror optical systems into the National Ignition Facility (NIF) located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Chief Operations Officer
Lynn Essman has over 20 years experience in the management of complex systems development and integration, both in hardware and software. Lynn has been the driving force behind the structure and operations of four startup companies, from engineering services for military development to the commercialization of proprietary and patented technologies.
His diverse background includes: field grade officer in the United States Air Force, Intelligence and Intelligence Systems Development; member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Al-Source Analysis System (ASAS); vice president and co-founder of VEA, Inc., Tralas Technologies, Inc., SkyWave, Inc., and Uni-Pixel Displays.
Lynn has consistently managed programs and projects in the 1M- to 40M-dollar range. As operations officer for KMD, he is directly responsible for the capitalization and commercialization of existing KMD baseline technologies.
Chief Science Officer
Dr. Daniel Dietrich is chief science officer for KMD. Dr. Dietrich is known throughout the physics community for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and accelerator-based studies. He is the scientific lead behind the development of the patented REX instrument which, for the first time, allows for the detection of dissolved metallic ions to the low-ppb level in near real time. Dan has several years experience as a senior manager for the development of new sensor technologies for homeland defense. Both he and Bob hold several patents for environmental instrumentation and have won multiple R&D 100 awards.
