Board of Directors

James McCormick has served as a director since November 2021 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in June 2024. Mr. McCormick has over 30 years of experience in finance, operations and administration, primarily in the high tech industry. He has been instrumental in raising over $1 billion in funds for companies in which he was involved, including IPO’s, sales to strategic investors, investments by VC’s and securities sales through the capital markets. He has been involved in numerous M&A activities, both on buy-side and sell-side transactions. His experience has ranged from managing start-up companies to complex, multi-national entities. From May 2019 to present, Mr. McCormick has served as the Chief Operating Officer for LTA Research and Exploration, an aerospace research and development company building experimental and certified manned and remotely piloted airships. From October 2015 to May 2019, Mr. McCormick served as Chief Financial Officer of Global Equipment Services (GES), a company specializing in production process and test equipment design, manufacturing, and global services for the semiconductor and electronics product manufacturing industry. While acting as CFO, Mr. McCormick oversaw the acquisition of GES by Kimball Electronics in an approximately $50 million transaction. He has held CEO, CFO and COO positions at various other public and private companies including Crossing Automation (sold to Brooks Automation (BRKS)), Serious Energy, PodTech, iPrint Technologies (sold to Harland Clarke), Tandem Computers (sold to Hewlett Packard (HPE)) and UB Networks (sold to Alcatel). Mr. McCormick holds a BBA from the University of Toledo and a MBA from the University of Michigan.

Ruba Qashu has served on our board of directors since April 2023. Ms. Qashu is a partner at Barton LLP, where she has been employed since March 2023. Ms. Qashu serves on Barton LLP’s business and finance team, and her is on capital markets and securities transactions. She has over 20 years of experience as securities counsel for public companies and a substantive history structuring complex transactions and providing strategic counseling. Ms. Qashu’s capital markets experience includes CMPOs, registered direct offerings and PIPEs. Ms. Qashu handles ‘34 Act reporting and advises regarding corporate governance, equity compensation plans and stockholder communications. Prior to joining Barton LLP, she was a Partner at Raines & Feldman. Previously, from 2011 through 2021, she was a Partner at Libertas Law Group. Ms. Qashu holds a B.A. in English Literature from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from Hastings College of Law (now UC Law San Francisco). She is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

Jeff Kirby has served on our board of directors since June 2024. Mr. Kirby is the Founder of Resource Management and Development, a real estate investment firm with a seasoned team of commercial real estate service experts founded by Mr. Kirby in 1993. With expertise in master-planned communities and commercial development, Resource Management and Development had roles in developing and managing over 20,000 residential lots in the Northern Nevada market as well as developing over 800,000 square feet of office space in the Reno, Nevada market. Mr. Kirby served as Chief Financial Officer of Avantair from 2004 to 2007. In Mr. Kirby’s more than 25 year-career, he has also consulted on investment and pension fund matters for several prominent trusts and funds, created and managed joint venture partnership business arrangements and involvement in funding and capital generation for private and publicly traded companies, and co-founded North Valley Holdings, the single largest producer of new water rights to municipal markets in Nevada and Northern California. Mr. Kirby received his B.A. in communication and B.S. in psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Craig Johnson has served on our board of directors since June 2024. Mr. Johnson has over 30 years of experience in a variety of Sales Management, Business Development, Marketing, Operations, and General Management positions at large corporations like Honeywell, and various start up organizations. His industry expertise includes Industrial Automation, Building Automation, Technology, and Security. Mr. Johnson earned his Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing and Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Masters in Business Administration in Marketing from DePaul University in Chicago. He currently sits on two small company boards, one non-profit board and served as a Reserve Officer in the Armed Forces.