William Y. Zakroff Mr. Zakroff has been an independent management consultant since 1984 specializing in strategic planning and business development projects for corporate clients. In addition, Mr. Zakroff provides financial advisory services on private equity transactions and is Founder and CEO of Marinus Power LLC, an ocean renewable energy company (www.marinuspower.com ) Over his professional career, Mr. Zakroff has undertaken a broad range projects for many well known industrial companies and has worked in all major regions of the world. Mr. Zakroff also serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Hardide plc, a UK industrial coatings company traded on the AIM / London Stock Exchange (www.hardide.com) and as an Advisory Board member of Ingenero, Inc., a Mumbai, India based engineering company serving the worldwide petroleum and petrochemical industries (www.ingenero.com). Mr. Zakroff began his career in the Engineered Materials Group of the General Electric Company where he held management positions in corporate development and strategic planning. In 1979, he transferred to Houston with a GE division manufacturing carbide and diamond materials for the oilfield industry. While in Houston with GE, Mr. Zakroff established joint ventures in Japan and South Africa, directed plant expansions in Houston and Russia, and became General Manager of an advanced technical ceramics venture he championed from laboratory scale into full commercial production. Mr. Zakroff received an MBA with Distinction from Northwestern University and a BS in Chemistry with Distinction from the University of New Mexico.
Dr. Wissam Rabadi Dr. Wissam Rabadi is a co-founder of the Zakroff Group and serves as Director of the Mid-East Region with expertise in computing, communications, entrepreneurship, strategic planning, business development, and commercialization of science and technology. Dr. Rabadi is also a Director of the Amman office of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (www.astf.net). Dr. Rabadi was previously Director of Research and Business Development at the Electronic Systems Group, a JV company with King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau that provides technical solutions in support of Jordan’s defense and security needs. He began his career at Texas Instruments where he led efforts to establish several new multi-million dollar businesses serving vertical markets such as digital photography, internet music, electronic security, optical and visual communications, and bio-medical applications. He also managed major customer accounts including HP, Kodak, Siemens, Nortel, Sony, Sharp and Cisco. Dr. Rabadi has been a Professor of Computer Engineering at the American University in Dubai, a visiting professor at the University of Houston, and has served as President of the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, Orlando Chapter. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the Association for Corporate Growth, the Institute of Management Accountants, the Houston World Affair Council, and the Middle East Institute and the Arab American Institute. Dr. Rabadi holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan, a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida and an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin.
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