Joe Harary joined Research Frontiers Incorporated as its Vice President and General Counsel in 1992 and has been a director of the Company since 1993. After various promotions, Mr. Harary became President and Chief Operating Officer in 2002, and Chief Executive Officer starting in January 2009. Mr. Harary has actively managed and directed all aspects of the Company’s business including licensing, raising private and public equity capital, marketing, and government relations. During his tenure, Research Frontiers’ SPD-SmartGlass technology has become the best-selling high-performance smart window in the world. He and the ex­ecutive team have built an SPD supply chain infrastructure through the licensing of premier companies that include the world’s largest chemical and glass companies, and building global awareness of the benefits of SPD-SmartGlass technology. Currently Research Frontiers SPD-Smart­Glass technology is available on five different models of Mercedes-Benz vehicles and is offered as standard equipment on seven different models of aircraft. It is also being used by the Smithsonian and other museums to protect valuable artifacts and light-sensitive documents, on various yachts, and in architectural projects around the world. Prior to joining Research Frontiers, Mr. Harary’s corporate law practice emphasized tech­nology, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and intellec­tual property law at three prestigious New York City law firms. Mr. Ha­rary graduated Summa Cum Laude from Columbia College with an A.B. degree in economics, and received a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar as well as an editor of the Columbia Law Review. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Harary worked as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Joe Harary is frequently asked to share his business experience with other companies directly, and as a speaker and published author in the fields of intellectual property, corporate law, and smart glass. Mr. Harary also teaches several business courses, and serves on the boards of various charities including the Imagine Academy which helps children with autism and their families.

Roberto Fagarazzi is Business Unit Manager for Lighting and Glazing Di­vision at INglass-HRSflown Group, a world leading toolmaker and hot runner manufacturer in the Automotive Business based in San Polo di Piave (TV), near Venice, Italy. Graduated Management Engineer in Milan Polytechnic, he developed his whole career in the creation and manage­ment of branched sales structures with international footprint in differ­ent business fields of plastics. From 2000 to 2006 he mainly focused on North and South American markets of PET blow-moulding machinery, from 2007 to 2011 he managed the Middle East and Central Asian branch of Italian bottling plants manufacturer SIPA S.p.A. Since 2011 he joined INglass as Commercial Director of HRSflow, a globalized company with 3 production facilities and 14 technical branches worldwide. Today he’s responsible for the Business Unit dedicated to the lighting and glazing applications, both for hot runners and injection tools.

Joseph Welker is James Carpenter Design Associates Studio Director. His current focus is utilizing light to transform an addition to the Museum of Westward Expansion below the St Louis Arch and to enliven a new com­mercial loft building near completion along the High Line in New York City. Mr. Welker has been at JCDA for 14 years, overseeing some of the firm’s most complex projects.

Having more than 30 years of first-hand expertise in the field of solar modules and systems, Mr. Wecker has managed quite some foundations and set-ups of solar business companies. In 2013, he founded a2-solar GmbH upon an asset deal to take over the asola Automotive Business together with a German partner and since then taken the position as the CEO of a2-solar. From 2000 till 2013, he was the CEO of the asola group, located in Erfurt, Germany. The asola group produced standard modules and special solar car roof modules. Mr. Wecker built up the company from the scratch, succeeding revenues of up to 72 Mio. € and counting 270 employees. He was also the founder of “satellites” in Canada, the US and China. From 1991 till 2000, Mr. Wecker set up the WEBASTO business unit on solar car roof systems and special advanced modules, leading the unit from the scratch up to revenues of 20Mio. DM. Between 1987 and 1991 already, he headed the development of a special swimming encapsulation system for flexible solar modules in industrial tents as well as car roofs. Before, he was operating as sales engineer for H.V. equip­ment starting in 1985.

From 1983-1998, Frederic Veer studied Materials Science at Delft univer­sity of Technology. After, he worked on a PhD in structural integrity at Delft University of Technology and in 1994 was appointed as an assistant Professor of Materials Science in the Building Technology Department of Delft University of Technology. Since 2007 Frederic Veer works as an associate Professor of Materials Science in the Building Technology De­partment of Delft University of Technology and was awarded with three patents. Mr. Veer is the author of over 100 published refereed journal and conference papers on structural integrity of materials and mechanical properties of glass.

Guglielmo Macrelli received Ms.Sci in Physics with honors at the Univer­sità di Bologna (Italy) with a thesis in “Neutrons transport and diffusion in matter”. He has 7 years of experience in a testing laboratory (Istituto Giordano – Italy) as responsible of Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics laboratotory and research project coordinator in glass science and tech­nology. Since more than 25 years he works with Isoclima SpA – R&D department as research scientist and actually senior research scientist. His main development projects are glass chemical strengthening by ion exchange, variable transmittance systems (electrochromic, liquid crystal and SPD), thin film deposition on glass by sputtering for heatable glazing and solar control. Guglielmo Macrelli has about 20 publications in peer re­viewed international journals and international conference proceedings.

Ron Brandhorst has a background in mechanics and worked for more than 12 years at one of Europe’s leading glass manufacturers. After ex­tensive problem solving at a glass consultancy company, he now works for 3 years at the testing laboratory of TÜV Rheinland for glass in gen­eral and automotive glazing in particular and as lead auditor for quality systems, both in building products and automotive industry. Testing for glass products is performed in various fields of industry; Construction, Automotive, Trains, Ships, Furniture, Greenhouses, Kitchens, Showers, Elevators, Sound barriers along highways and railway tracks, Packaging, Solar Energy and others.

Uwe Keller is a chemist with expertise in the fields of polymers and or­ganic materials. He holds a doctorate degree obtained at the Max-Planck- Institute for Polymer Research. He has been involved in research and development of PVB-interlayers for more than 15 years prior to taking over his current role of OEM business development manager within Ku­raray Interlayer Solutions.

David Foster is the Sales Director for AGP’s eGlass Division which focuses on advanced glazings for the automotive and EV markets. AGP’s new eGlass division develops and manufactures some of the largest, most complex glazings in the automotive industry. That includes innovative solar and lightweight technologies for applications such as cielo wind­shields and panoramic roofs. Mr. Foster has spent much of his career in sales and program management leadership positions. His experience comprises plastics, composites and glazings manufacturing in the aero­space, defense and automotive industries. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina Charlotte and a MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Mr. Rym Benyahia, is the Managing Director of freeglass GmbH Co. KG (Germany), a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain Sekurit, located close to Stutt­gart. Since 2012, Rym Benyahia has been also appointed in Germany as Councillor of the Foreign Trade of France attached to the French Foreign Trade and Foreign Affairs Ministries. He was previously the Executive Sales and Marketing Director of the company from 2006 to 2008. Mr. Rym Benyahia was in charge, from 2003 to 2006, of the sales operations and the technological marketing for South Europe, United Kingdom de­veloped commercial approaches and industrial strategies for successful launching of innovative – first time in market – vehicle plastic glazing concepts in contribution with several OEMs. Member of the joint-venture founder team in 2001, freeglass Gmbh Co. KG, between the companies Saint-Gobain Sekurit and Schefenacker AG, Mr. Rym Benyahia, as Proj­ects Manager, transferred to freeglass the technologies developed during the Saint-Gobain Research & Development program implemented and managed in Germany and France in the Industrial Development Cen­ters (CDI-Paris / ZAF-Aachen) of Saint-Gobain Glass. He initiated sev­eral studies, patents and partnership in the field of materials, processes and industrial relationships since 1997 where he started as Development Engineer. One of his tasks in a previous industrial environment was to evaluate the feasibility of material switch from mineral glass to PET for high added value cosmetic products for Christian Dior in 1995.