Mr. Brian Carlisle President and CEO Mr. Carlisle has 30 years experience in the robotics industry.  Before co-founding Precise with Dr. Shimano, Mr. Carlisle was CEO of Adept Technology and led the company to sales of over $100 million.  He has served on the Board of the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM), the Boards of the National Center for Manufacturing Science (NCMS), the Automation Forum of NEMA and is a founding member of the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI).  Mr. Carlisle holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.Dr. Bruce ShimanoCOO and vp of r&d Dr. Shimano has 30 years experience in the robotics industry.  Before co-founding Precise with Mr. Carlisle, Dr. Shimano was co-founder and VP of R&D at Adept Technology.  Dr. Shimano has led the development of many significant robotic software packages including VAL, VAL-II, V+, and AIM.  He received a BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and was a research assistant at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.Ms. Betsy Lange CFO Ms. Lange has over 20 years experience in Finance.  Before joining Precise, she was CFO of Adept Technology and took the company public.  She holds a MBA from Santa Clara University

Mr. Brian PowellVice President of Sales and OperationsMr. Powell has spent over 20 years selling factory automation to various manufacturers in disk drive, biosciences, semiconductor, medical devices and consumer goods.  Before joining Precise, Mr. Powell served as Program Manager with Xyratex supplying factory floor automation to disk drive and solar industry customers.  He was also one of the top Sales Managers at Adept Technology.  Prior to selling robots, Mr. Powell gained experience in machine vision and symbolic identification systems as a  Regional Sales Manager at RVSI, now part of Siemen’s Simatic Sensors.  Mr. Powell holds a B. S. in Computer Science and earned his M.B.A. (Honors) from Saint Mary’s College of California.

Dr.  Clifford Geschke Director - Software Dr. Geschke has over 30 years experience in robotics research and development.  He was the Technical Director of Software at Adept Technology where he was a principle designer and implementer of controller architecture and programming languages.  Dr. Geschke holds a BS EE degree from Purdue University and both MS EE and PhD EE degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Mr. Rajesh Kulkarni Director – Electrical Engineering Mr. Kulkarni has 20 years experience in Digital Design, PCB design and logic design.  For the last ten years, he has been involved in controller design for the automation industry.  He was Director of Electrical Engineering at Adept Technology and holds a MS in Electrical Engineering.

Mr. Paul Cronin Director - Mechanical Engineering Mr. Cronin has almost 15 years experience in electromechanical design and robotics. Prior to joining Precise, he worked on electromechanical systems design and analysis for ATK and designed precision robotics for Adept.  He holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Mr. Don Allan Senior Mechanical Engineer Mr. Allan has 50 years of mechanical engineering experience including: five years managing plant equipment, two years managing automation in the toy industry, five years managing automation for Raychem, ten years consulting in electromechancial engineering and 28 years of robot design.  He holds six US patents and was Director of Advanced Mechanisms at Adept Technology.

Ms. Stella Kulkarni Sales operations and purchasing Ms. Kulkarni has over 15 years experience in purchasing/manufacturing.  Before joining Precise, she was in charge of purchasing and manufacturing at an electronics OEM for 8 years and worked as a Purchasing Manager, buying over $1,000,000 of electronics components annually, for 8 years.

Mr. Jim Shimano Product Manager Mr. Shimano has almost 10 years experience in product management and operations. Before joining Precise, he was a Professor of Chemistry at Cerritos College and a senior research assistant and lab manager at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Shimano holds a MBA from UC Irvine and a MS in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Carl Lee Senior Software Engineer Mr. Lee has over 10 years experience in motion control and automation industries. Before joining Precise, he worked on control software and application development at Varian Inc, Adept Technology and Delta Tau Data System. Mr. Lee holds a MS degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Mr. Mike Fusillo Electronics Technician Mr. Fusillo has over 14 years experience as an electronics and support technician. Before joining Precise, he was a quality assurance technician for product development at Leapfrog Enterprises. Mr. Fusillo also held positions as lead R&D technician at Trimble Navigation and as a customer service technician at Dyna Mechtronics.

Mr. Nick Wong Applications Engineer Mr. Wong has an ME degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and an BE (honors) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Auckland. Before joining Precise, he worked as a field engineer in produce handling automation.

Dr. Scott Roth CONSULTANT – Machine Vision Dr. Roth has over 30 years experience in 2-D and 3-D computer vision for inspection, metrology and object recognition.  Before joining Precise, he worked with the Institute of Nuclear Studies, General Motors Research Labs, Adept Technology, Datacube Inc and CyberOptics Corp.  Dr. Roth holds a PhD from Caltech and a BA in Math from Cal State Long Beach.

Mr. Bob Esslinger Consultant - Power Engineering Mr. Esslinger has 40 years experience in power amplifier design.  He designed and tested several power control systems, power amplifiers and PCAs and conducted reliability studies that saved over $100,000 in repair and replacement costs.  Mr. Esslinger holds a BS in EE.

Mr. Victor Criswell CONSULTANT - Software Mr. Criswell has over 18 years of experience in factory automation including systems integration, application engineering and software development. His focus has been on the user experience and ease of use of the product. He was Manager of Application Engineering at Adept Technology and holds a BSEET.

Mr. Don Briner Consultant - Cartesian Robot Design Mr. Briner is the founder of BYE/Oasis and Briner/Yeaman Engineering.  He has considerable semiconductor fabrication experience including machine design, robot applications, designs for contamination control and factory design.  He holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University and a BME from Georgia Tech.

Dr. Gurusham Sudhir Consultant - Machine Vision Dr. Sudhir has over 20 years experience in computer vision and in image/video processing/compression. Prior to joining Precise, he worked on software and system designs for vision applications. He holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a B.Engg. in Electronics from Bangalore University.