ELS Technology, Inc.

Clifford D. Jolly

President

Cliff has been the President of ELS Technology, Inc. since its inception in 1993. Cliff’s primary areas of expertise are in market analysis, process economics, asset valuation, technology management, chemical process development, heterogeneous catalysis, advanced water treatment, occupational safety and scientific instrumentation, product design and environmental chemistry. He has developed the financing packages then initiated and led the innovation and commercialization of six technologies that were developed under combined public and private funding, inclusive of manufacturing and marketing. Cliff has previously held positions as an energy program manager for a Fortune 500 science & technology company, a research scientist and business development manager for an aerospace firm, a collegiate and high school baseball coach for 6 years, a research scientist at a major university biomedical laboratory, and as a transaction control manager at a retail bank.

Cliff’s current interests are in clean chemical process development, Sustainable Cities of the Future, energy strategy including hybrid energy systems, retail innovation, international trade theory and practicum, and the global political/business interface. He has conducted extensive on-site research on the effects of globalization on industries and firms, particularly with respect to organizational management and positioning techniques to achieve optimization of system-wide variances in order to maximize profitability in global operations.

Cliff has worked & conducted research in over 30 countries. He holds an MBA in Global Management from Georgetown University Schools of Business and Foreign Service in Washington, DC, and an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Arizona State University in Tempe, and has completed the Private Equity Program at the London Business School. Cliff holds six (6) US Patents and is the author of over forty (40) refereed technical publications and reports. He has received five (5) NASA Certificates of Recognition for space flight and commercial technology developments, a NASA Space Act Award, and was NASA “Inventor of the Year” in 1994.

Dr. Wayne Allard

Managing Director- Policy & Strategy

Dr. Wayne Allard specializes on issues related to health, defense, security, energy,  transportation and land use, as well as having broad experience in financial and governmental budget policies. Prior to returning to the private sector in 2009, Wayne  served for 26 years in elected public office, including 12 years in the U.S. Senate on such key committees as Appropriations, Intelligence, Banking and Urban Affairs, Agriculture, Armed Services, and Interior. He also served for 3 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives on Budget, Small Business, Agriculture and Natural Resources committees; and in the Colorado senate for 6 years on Agriculture, Business, Education, and Appropriations committees. Dr. Allard was elected to numerous leadership positions in the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and the Colorado State Senate.

As a strong proponent of a broad-based energy policy, Dr. Allard founded the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus in the U.S. Senate in 1998, and served as its Co-Chairman until 2009. He was also founder of the Senate Aerospace Caucus.

Dr Allard’s current business interests are in adaptation of business strategies to changing public policy environments, health monitoring & instrumentation, global export & energy strategies, and analysis of the efffects of government policies on investment strategies.

From 1968 to 1991 he was CEO of a large regional veterinary practice and served as a local health officer.  Wayne received his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University in 1967.

Ladislav Jezek

Principal Engineer

Ladislav has 20+ years engineering & technology management experience, including management of design and development of microprocessor control systems for automated production equipment (hardware, firmware) on many common microprocessor and microcontroller platforms, ISA and VME bus, complex PLDs,  serial communication, A/D converters. He also has 15 years experience in analog design, expertise in high speed and high frequency circuits, servo control with phase locked loop, feedback loop stability, high voltage power supplies, SPICE/MICROCAP simulation; 10+ years experience in software design: C, C++, Assembly language; Real time programming, interrupts handlers; servosystems, digital feedback loops and their frequency compensation, phase lock loop, digital motor control, calibration sub-routines, data acquisition, and embedded controller programming and Embedded Controller Development for Portable Instrumentation.

Facilities/Equipment:

ELS Technology was incorporated in December 1993 and is primarily engaged in design, engineering, and production of commercial water and air treatment and monitoring systems and components, automated instrumentation for industrial applications, process consulting, and commercial analytical & test instrument manufacturing. The company utilizes a fully approved cost accounting system that meets DCAA and other government requirements.

The company operates a 3,500 sq. ft. laboratory, short-run manufacturing facility, and prototype machine shop. The company’s current facilities include a ten position catalyst dynamic column test stand, chemical vapor deposition apparatus, materials processing equipment including two high temperature furnaces and extrusion equipment, PAR electrochemical and electrolytic treatment and surface analysis equipment, a biocatalytic reactor, numerous ozone generators, UV equipment, RO/UF treatment hardware (4×40″ stainless), process instrumentation for dissolved oxygen, pH and conductivity, a Varian 3400 Gas Chromatograph, an OI Model 700 TOC Analyzer, a DR4000 Scanning UV/VIS Spectrophotometer, a PAR Model 384B Polarographic Analyzer, a Princeton Applied Research Model 173 Voltammetric analyzer, a Princeton Applied Research Model 179 Coulometer, PAR Model 175 Universal Programmer, ion-selective electrode-based monitoring equipment, pumps, Programmable Logic Controllers, data acquisition equipment, standard instrumental analysis laboratory equipment, fume hoods & glove boxes for handling small-quantity hazardous materials, a Hobart 175 Amp Mig Welder, drill presses, saws, a milling machine, lathe, and other machine tools.

The company also has a complete electronics design and manufacture station, including analog and digital hardware development stations, a software development station (C++, C#, C, VBasic and Forth), a PROM-burning station, and a component packaging/assembly area.

All company facilities conform to local, State of Colorado, and Federal regulations with regard to waterborne effluents, airborne emissions, external radiation levels, outdoor noise, waste disposal practices, and handling and storage of toxic and hazardous materials.

Overall Capabilities:

ELS personnel have extensive technical and management experience in chemical process development, analytical methods and instrumentation development for industrial processes; project engineering; program management; government and commercial sector contracting; technology transfer; chemical and hazardous material safety; component design engineering; remediation system design; process engineering; industrial waste minimization; environmental chemistry.  The company has repeatedly demonstrated innovation and problem-solving abilities.

ELS Technology Experience:

Heterogeneous catalyst and catalytic process development; treatability, feasibility and demonstration tests; catalytic oxidation (ozone, peroxide, molecular oxygen), hydrogenation, and photocatalytic processes; heterogeneous catalyst preparation techniques; biocatalytic processes; enzyme immobilization techniques; materials engineering; chemistry of metals; mechanical component design and manufacturing; control instrumentation application and development; materials properties and compatibility issues; detailed knowledge of separations and detoxification technologies; water and air quality issues; ion-exchange and adsorption processes; chemistry of solids; RO, UF, and gas/liquid separation membrane technology; filtration technology; derivitization techniques for membranes and other surfaces; solid and liquid phase extraction; a wide variety of water, food, and surface microbial control techniques; phase-change operations; electrochemical techniques; and analytical chemistry.

ELS Process & Product Development Experience:

Alternative Energy, Water Treatment and Environmental

• ELS/Sony – Membrane-Based Industrial Water Recycling System for Trinitron^TM Television Manufacturing Facility
• NASA JSC – High Temperature Microbial Check Valve for Space Shuttle
• NASA JSC – Regenerable Biocide Delivery Unit
• Teledyne – Air-Evap Water Recovery for Ultrapure Water System
• SAIC/USAEC – Solar Array Soil Detoxification Demonstration Program
• ELS – Self-Contained, Portable Water Purification Systems
• NASA MSFC – Multifitration System for Space Station Water Recycling
• NASA MSFC – Reagentless Separator-Removal of Aqueous Inorganic Carbon from Solution
• NASA JSC – Non-Phase Change Wastewater Reclamation Subsystem
• NASA JSC – Novel Membrane-based Water Reclamation Post-treatment Unit
• NASA MSFC – Air Evaporation Water Recovery
• NASA-MSFC – Wastewater Physical and Chemical Properties Studies
• NASA JSC – Pre- and Post-Treatment of Spacecraft Wastewater

Heterogeneous Catalysts

• ELS – Advanced, Physically-Stable Terephthalic Acid Purification Catalysts
• ELS – Clean Catalysts for Chemical Hydrogenation Processes
• ELS – Physically-Stable Porous Solid Carbon-Supported Catalysts
• ELS – Synthetic Carbon-Supported Noble Metal Catalysts
• ELS/NASA-JSC – Advanced Oxidation Catalysts for Spacecraft Water Reclamation
• ELS – Catalytic Oxidation Systems for Water & Air Detoxification
• NASA MSFC – Development of Biocatalytic Reactors for Removal of Contaminants from Wastewater
• NASA MSFC – Catalytic Methods Using Molecular Oxygen for Treatment of Space Station Potable Water Stream
• NASA MSFC – Catalytic Methods Using Molecular Oxygen for Treatment of Aqueous Waste
• NASA MSFC – Removal of Contaminants from Wastewater Using Biocatalysts

Scientific Instrumentation

• ELS – MicroTOC^TM Microminiature Total Organic Carbon Analyzer
• ELS/USNFESC – AeroLead^TM Automatic, Portable Airborne Lead Analyzer
• ELS/NIEHS – ChromAlert Airborne Chromium Analyzer
• ELS/USDOE – Portable Personal Monitors for Toxic Metal Aerosols
• ELS/NASA-JSC – Space Flight Iodine Sol-Gel Film Sensors
• ELS/NIEHS – Portable, Low-Cost Airborne Beryllium Analyzer
• ELS/NASA-JSC – Electroanalytical Platform for Measuring Silver
• ELS – Portable Mercury Analyzer
• Zellweger Analytics – Ultrapure Water TOC & pH Water Quality Monitor Design & Components
• Zellweger Analytics – Space Station Freedom Phase C/D Process Control Water Quality Monitor (PCWQM) Components
• Marotta Scientific – Micro-miniature Solenoid Valve Design, Materials Compatibility