Dr. Cardoso is a dynamic executive and researcher with +15 years of impressive history driving revolutionary breakthroughs in high-tech industry for worldwide private, governmental, medical, aerospace, and research institutions. His recent government customers include DHS, NIH, NSF, NASA, DOE, ONR, DARPA, Navy, and prime defense and aerospace contractors. Dr. Cardoso founded Creative Electron, Inc. (CEI) in 2008. A defense contractor specializing in turnkey solutions, Creative Electron, Inc. has four business units: TruView X-ray Inspection Systems, Radiation Detector Systems, CZT/CdTe Packaging Systems, and Conductive Adhesives. Prior to founding Creative Electron, Dr. Cardoso was President of Aguila Technologies, a business founded in 1996, focused on defense, medical imaging, and aerospace radiation detectors. Aguila was acquired by Creative Electron, Inc. in 2008. Prior to joining Aguila Technologies in 2007, Dr. Cardoso spent 10 years at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). Fermilab is an internationally renowned DOE laboratory and the world leader in nuclear particle physics research. Dr. Cardoso was the Head of the Fermilab Electronics Systems Engineering Department, leading a talented group of engineers and scientists in the design and development of radiation detector systems to find the structure of matter, and ultimately the origins of the universe. Dr. Cardoso served in review panels for several projects at Fermilab and other national laboratories and universities. Dr. Cardoso’s first company, Robotec Automation Systems, was founded in 1996. At Robotec, Dr. Cardoso pioneered a boutique R&D consulting business model specialized in state-of-theart electronic designs ranging from R&D to turnkey solutions. He developed emerging technologies for electronic systems in automotive, medical, and industrial markets. Robotec was sold to private equity in 1998. Dr. Cardoso is the recipient of several awards, including the prestigious Illinois Institute of Technology 2011 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award.
EDUCATION
MBA, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois
Post PhD, PhD, MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UFRGS, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Dr. Turqueti is a prolific researcher and inventor, and the author of several patents and trade secrets. His research focused on microdischarge dielectric barrier devices, MEMS arrays, and custom radiation detectors. At Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) Dr. Turqueti developed state of the art electronics for particle accelerators and satellites. This work included the radiation detectors and data acquisition electronics for the BTeV and CDF experiments at Fermilab, the CMS experiment at CERN, the JDEM program at NASA/DOE, the PHOENIX experiment at Brookhaven, and the Main Injector/Tevatron facilities at Fermilab. At Fermilab he also received the “Fermilab Exceptional Recognition Award” for his contributions to CMS/CERN. He is an accomplished author of dozens of technical papers presented at international conferences and published at refereed journals. Dr. Turqueti joined the Creative Electron Team as VP of Engineering. In this role he is responsible for all aspects of leadership of CEI’s engineering team. Dr. Turqueti is also CEI’s Chief Scientist in charge of developing CEI’s portfolio in the electronics’ technology space.
EDUCATION
Post PhD, PhD, in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aeronautical Technology Institute (ITA), Sao Paulo, Brazil
BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UFRGS, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Kimberly brings to Creative Electron years of experience leading successful marketing campaigns. At Creative Electron Kim is responsible for analyzing industries, bounding markets, strategically segmenting data, placing products, and designing our corporate message. She is also in charge of writing and producing Creative Electron's website (www.creativeelectron.com) utilizing the latest SEO tools. Another portion of our corporate identity includes showing our products at trade shows around the world. Formerly at Harvey Mudd College, Scripps, UC Irvine and UC Riverside, Kimberly holds a BA in Biology and an MBA in Marketing.
EDUCATION
MBA in Marketing, University of Southern California, CA
BA in Biology, UC Santa Barbara, CA
Shawn is a motivated operations management professional with federal and commercial experience in production, service, and project management. He is a skilled leader that effectively manages teams and projects to meet organizational and customer goals while striving for continuous improvements in areas of efficiency, quality, and output. Leverages strong technological background to facilitate meeting customer requests, overcome project challenges, and coordinate between diverse functional entities. At Creative Electron Shawn is responsible for managing the production line of our TruView systems. Prior to Creative Electron Shawn was a production supervisor with SAIC. Shawn served in the US Marine Corps, where he conducted testing, troubleshooting, and repaired complex electronic devices to the component level, and supported a manufacturing line that produced various inspection and radiological detection instruments.
EDUCATION
BA in Management, University of Phoenix
Intermediate Level Avionics Maintenance, NATTC Pensacola