Management Team

 

Dr. Colin P. Williams - CEO, comes to XE with 12 years experience as a Program Manager in Advanced Computing Paradigms and a Senior Research Scientist. Colin has led fund raising, deal-making, and product strategy since the inception of XE. As well as being an experienced Program Manager, Colin is also an accomplished scientist in quantum physics and computer science. He is best known for inventing the theory of computational phase transitions, and writing the first book on quantum computing. He was formerly an acting Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC, and Vice President of R&D at Variable Symbols, Inc., where he developed a suite of software tools for financial modeling. Before coming to America Colin worked as a research assistant to Prof. Stephen W. Hawking at Cambridge University. Colin earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, his M.Sc. in Atmospheric Physics from Imperial College, University of London, and his B.Sc. (with Hons.) in Mathematical Physics from the University of Nottingham.

Dr. Leo D. DiDomenico - President & CTO, is the inventor of the IP upon which Xtreme Energetics’ products are based and he was the founder of "Extreme Energetics Inc.", which is the predecessor to XE. Prior to these entrepreneurial activities he worked at Jet Propulsion Lab, which is the NASA/Caltech center for robotic space exploration, where he was a senior engineer leading an advanced R&D effort in photonic crystal materials with an emphasis on applications to high-power solar-pumped lasers for deep-space communications, he also was involved in remote sensing technology develoment. Prior to that he worked for the U.S. Army Research Labs as a staff engineer developing adaptive electromagnetic tracking systems for battle field applications. Finally, before his work at the Army Labs, he was a staff electrical engineer for TRW Space & Defense Systems and was involved in measurement of radiation signatures of the U.S. government's high-power Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser (MIRACL), which is a research-class directed energy weapon system used against aerial and ground targets at the White Sands Missile Range. Leo earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, in Phase Conjugation for adaptive tracking & control of radiation, from the Radiation Laboratory at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; his M.S. degree is in Electrical Engineering; and separate Bachelors degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Rutgers University. Leo has some 19 years experience in adaptive radiation control and electronics design.