John Keem

John joined International Leverage in early 2004. John is an entrepreneur and technologist. He has functional competency in three foreign languages. His areas of business development expertise include:

• identification and commercial positioning of technological opportunities in advanced synthetic materials systems;
• intellectual property portfolio assessment, development and management, and;
• Russian and Eastern European technology assessment, start up and commercial development for export markets.

John has made significant contributions in the following markets and industries:

• Nanostructured functional vacuum deposited coatings
• Rare Earth (NdFeB based) permanent magnets
• Ion source components for industrial applications in large scale vacuum deposition systems
• X-ray mirrors for nanometer lithography, x-ray optical systems and neutron optics
• PLASMAOX micro arc cladding technology (Al, Ti, Mg, Zr and similar metals)
• High performance titanium and titanium alloy powders
• Automotive sensor components

John’s functional experience reflects his return on investment oriented entrepreneurial vision driven approach to leading technology based new business development in the following areas:

• International Team Building
• Eastern European Technology based Business Development
• Technology Transfer
• Executive leadership for start-up technologies balancing vision, personal relations and technical understanding
• International Intellectual Property Portfolio Development
• Intellectual Property Strategic Assertion and Defense
• Technological Product positioning
• Start up management
• Start up exit strategy development and implementation

Select Professional Experience

CTO Vacuum Component Company - USA· Technology Transfer

• Product positioning
• International marketing and technical sales

High tech start-up ion source component LLC - USA

• Manager, technical sales
• Execution the sale of company exit strategy

High tech consultancy and capital equipment importer

• President
• Identification, acquisition, importation, modification and sale of Russian based vacuum deposition equipment
• Consulting in market strategy, Russian technology assessment, technology transfer, and process development in nanostructured materials

High tech magnetic and aerospace materials company specializing in Russian Technology-Russia and USA

• Executive Vice President
• Board Member

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. and Osmic, Inc. - USA, Japan, Russia

• Technology Director
• International Technology Assessment
• X-Ray optics start up manager

General Motors - USA

• Research and product insertion

Education
John graduated from Purdue University with a Ph.D. in solid state physics.

Publications

• More than 50 technical papers
• More than 50 US and international issued and pending patents