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Carlson: Promoted from Sarnoff to SRI
Curtis R. Carlson has received a dramatic promotion:
He is now executive vice president of Sarnoff Corporation but soon
will be president and CEO of Sarnoff’s parent company, SRI
International.
He and his wife, Dudley (the much-lauded children’s librarian who
just retired from Princeton Public Library), are expected to move
to SRI’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Carlson will succeed
William P. Sommers, who is retiring after four years in the position.
Carlson’s move may well have been planned for some time. SRI is one
of the world’s largest independent technology innovators, and at
Sarnoff
Carlson was in charge of both ventures and licensing. A graduate of
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Carlson has master’s and doctor’s
degrees from Rutgers. He has been issued more than 15 United States
patents in the fields of image quality, image coding, and computer
vision.
SRI was founded in 1956 as Stanford Research Institute. Sarnoff
Corporation
was founded in 1942 as RCA Laboratories but has been a wholly owned,
for-profit subsidiary of SRI International since 1987.
The combined companies have founded 16 new companies that are in
various
stages of development. Carlson helped found more than 10 of them,
at a rate of two or three per year, and he was a key member of the
board created for each spin-off. In the seed stage he acted as the
“Grand Entrepreneur” while other Sarnoff executives took the
roles of venture capitalist, human resource officer, and patent
officer.
This spinoff model worked for such Princeton-based firms as Sensar,
PyramidVision 1, Orchid Biocomputer, Delsys Pharmaceuticals, and
Sarnoff
Real-Time Corporations. Other spin-offs have been California-based
DIVA Systems Corporation; Sarif Inc. in Vancouver, Washington; Sarnoff
Digital Communications in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Secure
Products
in Summit, New Jersey (U.S. 1, April 2, 1997).
Carlson also started and helped accomplish the digital high definition
television (HDTV) Grand Alliance system that was established as the
United States Standard. That won an Emmy for the firm, and it led
to a partnership with Motorola to commercialize HDTV.
Eight years ago Carlson helped establish the National Information
Display Laboratory, which supports the federal government’s need for
information processing and display. It has been called a “new
collaborative model for research, development, and commercialization
between the government and commercial industry.” For instance,
the NIDL’s immersive technologies can let experts — doctors or
generals — use stereo glasses to show what is termed a “God’s
eye view” of the data, which might be a battle field or a cancer
tumor.
He served on scientific advisory boards for both the Air Force and
the Army, and in 1996 he participated in the Joint Civilian Operations
Conference sponsored by Secretary of Defense William Perry. As a
charter
member of the Highlands Group, he makes recommendations about
technologies
of importance to the federal government.
“Curt Carlson’s achievements at Sarnoff will be a tremendous asset
to SRI as the research institute pursues its strategy of creating
world-leading technologies and bringing these developments to the
marketplace,” says Samuel H. Armacost, chairman of SRI
International.
Sarnoff Corporation, CN 5300, Princeton 08543-5300.James E. Carnes, president & CEO. 609-734-2000; fax, 609-734-2040.E-mail: sgauff@sarnoff.com. Home page:https://www.sarnoff.com.Top Of PageSarnoff Successes:Delsys PlacementDelsys, the privately-held developer of automated drugmanufacturing and drug delivery systems — a spinoff of the SarnoffCorporation — keeps on growing. Earlier this month Delsys, basedat Vaughn Drive, announced a $14.5 million private placement ofpreferredstock.The syndicate completing the placement included what the press releasedescribed as “important new institutional investors,”includingPrismVenturePartners, based in Westwood, Massachusetts, andCenterPointVentures in Dallas, Texas. “We are particularly pleased toestablisha relationship with CenterPoint,” said Delsys CEO MartynGreenacre,”a fund specializing in software technologies and semiconductors,which reflects the growing recognition of the high-tech nature ofour cutting-edge process technology.”Meanwhile, the company expanded physically with the transfer of itsR&D and engineering departments to 307 College Road. Theadministrativestaff remains at Vaughn Drive.Sue DiBlassio, administrative assistant, recalls that she was thethird employee when she was hired in August of 1997. Now, she reports,there are 24 people on board.Delsys Pharmaceutical Corporation, 5 Vaughn Drive,Suite 305, Box 8738, Princeton 08543. Martyn Greenacre, presidentand CEO. 609-720-0033; fax, 609-520-6692.Top Of PageOrchid’s AcquisitionAnother Sarnoff spinoff is also expanding: OrchidBiocomputerhas announced the acquisition of a Baltimore-based research anddevelopmentcompany, Molecular Tool, a subsidiary of GeneScreen Inc.While financial terms were not disclosed, Orchid stated that it willreceive “full assignment” to Molecular Tool’s proprietary”genetic bit analysis” or GBA capabilities, including”equipmentand know-how.” Orchid said it was hiring the entire MolecularTool staff of about 15 — bringing its total staff size to about60 — and relocating Molecular Tool’s operations and facilitiesto Princeton within the next 12 months.Orchid recently opened a satellite location at 7 Deer Park Drive,and continues to maintain laboratory space at the Sarnoff Corporation.It hopes to consolidate its operations in the first quarter of nextyear in 30,000 square feet at 303 College Road. That space has justbeen vacated by I-Stat, which has moved to Windsor Center Drive offRoute 571 in East Windsor.”The pharmaceutical industry has expressed great interest intargetingsubgroups of patients based on their individual genetic differencesto improve therapy through the use of existing drugs and thedevelopmentof new drugs that have greater efficacy and fewer side effects,”said Orchid CEO Dale Pfost. “By combining Molecular Tool’stechnologieswith our microfluidics expertise we are building a [platform] thatwill enable Orchid to become a major player in these rapidly emergingfields.”Michael Boyce-Jacino, former president of Molecular Tool, joins Orchidas vice president of genomics research and development. “Our GBAtechnology is the preferred approach,” he said. “It’sscalable,robust, and well validated. Our patent position is strong — itdates back to the beginning of the DNA array era.”Founded in 1995, Orchid aims to leverage the same technologies usedto design computer chips to develop and commercialize micro-fabricatedsystems for chemistry and the biosciences.Earlier this year the firm announced an exclusive licensing agreementto use Sarnoff technology to create microfluidic products –microfabricatedsystems for chemistry and other sciences, for products used in drugdevelopment, pesticides, herbicides.Orchid Biocomputer Inc., 101 College Road East,Box 2197, Princeton 08543-2197. Dale R. Pfost Ph.D, chairman and CEO.609-514-0303; fax, 609-514-4083. E-mail: pconway@sarnoff.com.Top Of PageNew at Docks CornerCooper Tire signed a lease for 270,000 square feet at200 Docks Corner Road, where it will put its new East CoastDistributionCenter. Cooper will be moving from 62,500 square feet in New Brunswickand plans to add 15 employees to accommodate new shifts at the newfacility. The firm produces tires for cars, trucks and motorcycles,inner tubes, vibration control systems, automotive sealing, and hoses.The facility features 32-foot ceilings, 30 dock doors,state-of-the-artsprinklers, and frontage on the New Jersey Turnpike. It is owned andmanaged by a joint venture between Matrix Development and AMB PropertyCorporation, a New York City-based real estate investment trust. Thedeal was brokered by Joel Lubin and Charles Fern of WeichertCommercialRealtors in Piscataway.”We have identified this facility as an important element inmakingour service to customers more efficient and timely,” says BillWoeste, director of operations and planning at Cooper.Also leasing space at 200 Docks Corner Road is Total Logistic Control,of Zeeland, Michigan, which leased 89,000 square feet. No move-indate for either company has been announced yet.Top Of PageStart-UpsSterling Eagle Capital Corp., 340 Scotch Road,West Trenton. Gary Hoyer. 609-716-6700; fax, 609-671-0661.Sterling Eagle Capital Corp. has opened at 340 Scotch Road with GaryHoyer at the helm. Hoyer is an alumnus of Syracuse University, Classof 1980, and has a Wharton MBA. He had worked at Deloitte Haskins& Sells, First Boston, and Prudential Bache and had been a principalat Princeton Capital Finance at 38 Washington Road (U.S. 1, December7, 1997).In 1996 Princeton Capital Finance was a $600 million commercialfinancefirm with 12 offices providing untraditional asset-based loans tosmall and growing businesses that had difficulty in getting financingin a tight market. Then it moved to a different niche, warehousefinancingof residential mortgage loans plus shorter term bridge loans,primarilyfor the asset-backed securities marketplace.Hoyer did not return several calls requesting information aboutSterlingEagle Capital.Top Of PageNew in Town1st Constitution Bank, 10 Schalks Crossing Road,Plainsboro Plaza, Plainsboro 08536. Andrea Pagiazitis, assistant vicepresident/branch manager. 609-750-0200; fax, 609-750-0188.Another branch has opened in Plainsboro, on the site of the formerHoward Savings Bank, which went under in June, 1992, and was absorbedinto First Fidelity, which was purchased by First Union in 1995. 1stConstitution was started as a mutual thrift bank in 1989 and has sincebecome a publicly held bank with shares traded over-the-counter onthe Electronic Bulletin Board under the symbol FCCY.Toddler’s Village Learning Center, 15 Yard Road,Hopewell 08525. Mary Innocenzi, owner. 609-737-7877; fax,609-737-8555.May Innocenzi closed her child care center on Pennington Road in Ewingto open at this new location, which will open on Saturday, September26, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with pony rides, a petting zoo, and amoonwalk.Ron Rheaume was the architect and John Lovero, the builder, for thisranch-style building on a side street off Route 31. It has thecapacityfor 86 children from ages six weeks to eight years, with full-daykindergarten plus gymnastics, music, and computers.Innocenzi was an art major at the College of New Jersey (Class of1977) and taught art before opening her first Toddler’s VillageLearningCenter in 1982. She has 60 credit hours towards her master’s in earlychildhood and special education. In 1987 she contracted with the stateDepartment of Transportation to operate its child care center, DotTot, the first state-sponsored center in New Jersey.”The area really needs good quality childcare,” saysInnocenzi.Twelve of her 16 cribs for infants are available.Top Of PageExpansionsNew Jersey Community Loan Fund, 16 West LafayetteStreet, Box 1655, Trenton 08607-1655. Anne S. Li, executive director.609-989-7766; fax, 609-393-9401.The statewide, nonprofit community development financial institutionhas renovated a building on Lafayette Street and has moved in. Oneof its functions is to use capital from the New Jersey Housing andMortgage Finance Agency to make loans for affordable housing,communityfacilities and small businesses. The fund is able to provide hands-ontechnical assistance and flexible loans to small projects, youngbusinesses,and to projects undertaken by less experienced community groups.Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP,50 West State Street, Suite 1010, Trenton 08608-1220. John M.Pellecchia,partner. 609-396-2121; fax, 609-396-4578.This Morristown-based law firm, citing a “growing client basein Trenton and central New Jersey,” has expanded its Trentonoffice.Relocating from Morristown are partner John M. Pellecchia, who servesas legislative agent for many national and international companies,and associate Kathryn Roberts, previously chief of staff andlegislativeliaison of the New Jersey Department of Banking under Governor Florio.Richard P. De Angelis Jr., former executive director of BergenCounty’sRepublican State Committee, also joins the Trenton office as anassociate.Metal Powder Industries Federation, 105 CollegeRoad East, Princeton 08540-6692. Donald G. White, executive director.609-452-7700; fax, 609-987-8523. E-mail: info@mpif.org. Home page:https://www.mpif.org.The trade association that represents the metal powder producing andconsuming industries took an additional 1,000 square feet of spaceat Forrestal Center. A tenant since 1980, it now occupies 7,000 squarefeet.Migliara/Kaplan Associates, 101 College Road East,Princeton 08540. Sheryl Olitzky, general manager. 609-514-9700; fax,609-514-1366.Migliara/Kaplan nearly doubled its size, expanding its lease to 15,000square feet at 101 College Road. The medical market research firmis a division of National Family Opinion Research, and has officesin Maryland and London.Altec Inc., 2553 Route 130, Campus 130, Cranbury08512. 609-655-3631; fax, 609-655-3654.Altec, the kitchen sink import/exporter, moved to 5,000 square feetat Campus 130 from Princeton Meadows Office Center in Plainsboro,where it moved in 1995 from Edison. It needed new warehouse space,says Tyler Byun, the president.Trade-named Enex International, Altec sells the imported sinks andother miscellaneous plumbing supplies to retail chains in Kentuckyand Wisconsin. The firm also exports some industrial technologiesto the Mideast.Klatzkin Technologies LLC, 1670 Whitehorse-HamiltonSquare Road, Box 8188, Trenton 08690-8188. Dale Baver, managingpartner.609-890-9189; fax, 609-890-6235. E-mail: dbaver@klatzkin.com.Klatzkin & Company has formed an independent computer consulting firm,Klatzkin Technologies LLC, a full-service consulting, sales,installation,and training operation with expertise in accounting software.The operation will be located in the Klatzkin & Company suites at1670 Whitehorse-Hamilton Square Road and at 680 Middletown Boulevardin Langhorne, PA. It will be headed by Dale P. Baver, a partner atKlatzkin & Company. “Klatzkin Technologies is a natural extensionof something we’ve been doing successfully for 15 years,” saysBaver. “We have provided clients with computer consulting serviceson ACCPAC and other accounting software since 1983.”Its specialities are using ACCPAC for Windows, ACCPAC for DOS businessaccounting systems, and integrating ACCPAC for Windows accountingsoftware with Microsoft’s Professional Office Suite. Klatzkin alsohas experience with Incolan, the anti-virus network program, QuickBooks, Arisoft Xtra Mail and I-Share programs, Microsoft NT, and NovelNetWare.Arquest Inc., 101 Interchange Plaza, Cranbury08512.John R. Rinaldi, president and CEO. 609-395-9500; fax, 609-395-9778.The disposable diaper and training pants manufacturer acquired BregerGibson Ltd., a private-label disposable diaper maker in North Wales,United Kingdom. This marks Arquest’s first foray into European marketsand the firm plans to make significant investments to upgrade itsmanufacture and market its wares.Top Of PageCrosstown MovesParticipative Systems Inc., 224 Raymond Road, Box181, Princeton 08542-0181. Marc Rubinstein, president. 609-921-1770;fax, 609-921-1888.The management consulting firm moved from 13 Tamarack Circle.Nowalk & Associates, 2650 Route 130 North,ConstitutionCenter, Suite C, Cranbury 08512. Richard G. Nowalk CPA, president.609-655-4100; fax, 609-655-5273.The certified public accounting firm moved from suite A, which itshared with other tenants, to its own space in suite C in Cranbury’sConstitution Center.Michael P. Balint, 408 Plainsboro Road,Plainsboro08536. 609-750-9700; fax, 609-750-9603.The attorney moved from 101 Interchange Plaza, Jamesburg, to aconvertedhouse on Plainsboro Road. The phone and fax are new. 609-750-9700,609-750-9603.Top Of PageDamaged By FireUniversity Systems and Services of Princeton, 403Camp Meeting Avenue, Skillman 08558-0151. Morris Mosse, president.609-466-9400; fax, 609-466-9292. E-mail: mmosse@ussp.com. Homepage: https://www.ussp.com.The warehouse and computer repair and sales building was destroyedby a fire that spread through the structure in the early morning onThursday, September 17. Fire companies from nine municipalities foughtthe fire for three hours and extinguished it at about 6 a.m. All thecomputer equipment was lost, but 40 percent of the building was saved.The cause of the fire was not immediately determined.Top Of PageLeaving TownPost Buckley Schuh & Jernigan Inc., 3535QuakerbridgeRoad, Suite 400, Hamilton 08619. Stephen J. Souza Ph.D., associatevice president. 609-588-5441; fax, 609-588-5515. E-mail:ssouza@pbsj.com.Home page: https://www.pbsj.com.The Hamilton office of the environmental remediation firm, which isheadquartered in Miami, has been closed. Formerly CoastalEnvironmentalServices Inc., Post Buckley specializes in ecological and engineeringaspects of environmental issues.Top Of PageManagement MovesNew Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency,637 South Clinton Avenue, Roebling Center, Box 18550, Trenton08650-2085.Deborah De Santis, executive director. 609-278-7400; fax,609-278-1754.Deborah De Santis has been appointed executive director of thenonprofitmortgage organization, a quasi state agency. She replaces TimothyJ. Touhey, who left to be director of national development for adevelopmentfirm, Franklin Group of West Paterson.A business administration major at Babson College, De Santis had beendeputy chief of staff in Governor Whitman’s office. She joined thisagency in January 1998.The Pennington School, 112 West Delaware Avenue,Pennington 08534. Lyle D. Rigg, headmaster. 609-737-1838; fax,609-730-1405.Lyle D. Rigg, 53, has assumed the position of headmaster at the160-year-oldindependent school, which is owned by the Southern New JerseyConferenceof the United Methodist Church. An alumnus of Miami University ofOhio, Rigg has master’s degrees from West Texas State and Harvard’sGraduate School of Education. His installation as headmaster alsomarked the arrival of a record number of incoming students, 390 from11 states and 10 foreign countries.Rigg previously had been headmaster at the American School in Surrey,England, and he has also taught in El Salvador and Brazil. He ismarriedto Sharon Creech, whose children’s novel “Walk Two Moons”won the Newbery Medal in 1995.Top Of PageName ChangesSharp Rudman, 993 Lenox Drive, Suite 200,Lawrenceville08648. 609-219-1680; fax, 609-546-5123. E-mail: cjtaxllm@erols.com.Aimee P. Rudman, formerly an associate with the law offices of CynthiaSharp Jenkins, has joined Jenkins as a partner and the new name ofthe firm is Sharp Rudman. Its primary practice areas are estateplanningand elder law. Sharp went to Ball State University and has law degreesfrom Georgetown and New York University, where she earned a master’sdegree in taxation. Rudman went to Brandeis and has an MBA and a JDfrom the University of Pittsburgh. This law firm’s headquarters isat 208 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights 08035, 609-546-5666.Vertex Technologies, 51 Stouts Lane, Unit 5,MonmouthJunction 08852. 732-329-0800; fax, 732-329-1500. Home page:https://www.vertextech.com.Vertex Technologies was doing business as Win Laboratories . As aMicrosoft partner it makes IBM-compatible desktop computers and hasexpanded to 20 employees.J.A.R. Engineering Inc., 314 Wall Street, Princeton08540. John H. Puha, president. 609-921-6754; fax, 609-921-0704.E-mail:mbai@worldnet.att.net.Reflecting a less-active role by its founder, Maurice Benton, M.Benton& Associates Inc. Consulting Engineers changed its name to J.A.R.Engineering Inc. The new president is John H. Puha.Only recently incorporated, the 30-year-old firm designs HVAC, firesuppression, plumbing, and mechanical systems.Corrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
