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Charles H. Thornton Charles H. Thornton, PhD, PE
CHAIRMAN


As chairman, Charles Thornton oversees the management and operations of STRAAM. In addition, he heads Charles H. Thornton &
Company, LLC, a management and consulting firm, and Thornton-Termohlen Group, Inc., a company committed to the industrialization of construction. Thornton is a consultant to the Thornton-Tomasetti Group (TTG), a global engineering firm with whom he has a 40-year history providing engineering and architectural services, failure analysis, hazard mitigation and disaster response services. Thornton has been internationally recognized for his introduction of both innovative engineering solutions and management strategies and has authored numerous technical papers and lectured both in the U.S. and abroad. He holds a PhD in Structural and Engineering Mechanics from New York University and is a registered professional engineer in 26 U.S. states.
   
Charles H. Thornton   Jeff Matros
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER


Jeff has spent his entire career in creating, identifying, and leading rapid growth start-up companies and new divisions of large organizations. At Siemens AG, the German electrical engineering giant, Jeff helped create a new division and built it into a $1+ billion company in less than three years. At Walden International Investment Group, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Jeff was General Partner in charge of the firm's investments in infrastructure companies. Jeff founded Netrix Corporation and was General Manager of Netrix International, opening offices on five continents and forming strategic relationships with IBM and Siemens. Netrix created the world's first telecommunications switching system to integrate both packet and circuit switching technologies. Jeff helped take Netrix through a NASDAQ IPO in 1992, receiving a multi-hundred million dollar valuation. Jeff began his career at IBM Europe.
   
Alan P. Jeary   Alan P. Jeary, CEng, DSc (Eng), PhD,
FIStructE, FAIB, MIEE, MAIBS
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER


Alan Jeary brings over 30 years of experience in the area of structural monitoring to STRAAM. In addition to his role as STRAAM CTO, Jeary is the Foundation Professor of Construction and Building Science at the University of Western Sydney, Jeary has prior experience with other academic institutions, the Building Research Establishment and the Central Electricity Research Laboratories. He is a world recognized authority on instrumenting full-scale structures to study their dynamic characteristics and has published over 130 papers on the results of his studies. Jeary earned his PhD and DSc from University College, London and has lectured worldwide on the overall behavior of structures.

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