Phil Cox – CEO (OH)
“Serial entrepreneur”. That’s the term flatteringly bestowed on Phil Cox, the innovator behind the TechTol Imaging system.
Phil was issued his first patent in 1968 – as a college intern at Owens Illinois Inc. – on a system for printing on glass containers. Phil later became a Senior Project Engineer for the company. He also created a home and subdivision design and construction company and a retail carpeting company.
Not one to shy away from big ideas, he became well known in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio in 1994 when he saved an entire development of upscale condominiums from the wrecking ball. The condos were slated for demolition to make way for the headquarters of a major corporation. Instead, Phil led an historic project to lift the 450-ton buildings off their foundations, slide them onto barges, and float the enormous structures 40-miles across Lake Erie to their current location on the Marblehead Peninsula, where today they’re known as the Commodore Island Condominiums.
Phil has led Techtol’s technical team in all phases of research, development and testing as well as securing the rights to intellectual property and raising investment capital. As TechTol’s Chief Executive Officer, he directs and oversees all aspects of commercialization of the TechTol Imaging system.
Zachary Ward – VP Visual Applications (OH)
Zak Ward has been taking computers apart and putting them back together since his eighth grade year. After starting a career as a website designer, specializing in graphic design, Zak joined the TechTol team in 2006. Since then, he has been a key player the architecture of the TechTol Imaging system from concept to finished product. “We started with an idea that we weren’t sure could even be done, and what we’ve built has exceeded our wildest dreams” Zak says. Zak oversees all product development and enhancement, and works closely with collaborative developers.
Chris Adams – Programmer (OH)
A lifelong computer gaming enthusiast, Chris Adams took his passion to school, earning his Bachelor’s in game development from Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida in 2007. Proficient in a number of computer languages, Chris is applying his expertise in the C# language in refining and augmenting the TechTol Imaging system.
Jim Harpen – Director, Business Development (OH)
Jim brings a combination of technology-based startup business and marketing/communications experience to the TechTol team. Jim left a career as a television journalist to found WeatherPort Technologies, the first company in the world to create a system to deliver and display real-time weather imagery as an overlay on GPS displays. More recently he was the founder of ToledoInternetNews.com, the first local news website in the country to provide both print and live television news online.
In his role as Director of Business Development, it is Jim’s job to get the word out on the TechTol Imaging system to prospective clients, collaborators, investors and the general public.
Dyne Hoenie – Electronics (OH)
Ned Nalle – Strategic Adviser (CA)
Garrick Hyde-White – Creative Development (CA)
