Meet the Team
CHIEF Scientist
John Brozena Ph.D
43 years at the Naval Research Laboratory as Head of the Marine Physics Branch. Guided the development and applications of remote sensing equipment and data acquisition and analysis systems. Work included marine geophysics, airborne gravimetry, radar and laser altimetry and surface mapping, synthetic aperture radar, photogrammetry and airborne acoustic sensors. Areas of application include crustal geophysics, geodesy, glacial and sea-ice research, sea-surface topography, bathymetry and marine acoustics, digital mapping (scanning lidar, photogrammetry, SAR, and HSI), and anti-submarine warfare. The focus of my last ten years at NRL were the development and use of foliage penetration radar for the detection of FARC terrorist camps and self-propelled semi-submersible build sites, airborne detection of IEDs in areas such as Colombia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and the development of SAR technologies for the detection of submarine periscopes.
EDUCATION Ph. D. in Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, 1996; M.A. in Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland 1986; B.A in Physics, University of Virginia, 1977
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2005 – 2017: Branch Head, Marine Physics Branch, Naval Research Lab 2003 – 2005: Acting Branch Head, Marine Physics Branch, Naval Research Lab 1989 – 2003: Section Head, Geophysical and Geodetic Systems, Marine Physics Branch, Naval Research Lab 1984 - 1989: Supervisory Research Geophysicist, Environmental Sciences Branch, Naval Research Lab 1977 - 1984: Research Physicist, Environmental Sciences Branch, Naval Research Lab
OPERATING PARTNER
Eric Bashford C.F.A.
Eric has led principal transactions in the medical device, computer hardware, nanotechnology and software fields. He has also led numerous non-principal transactions. By raising roughly $100 million for young companies and through strategic involvement, he has helped entrepreneurs develop companies worth over $3 billion.
Eric is a Chartered Financial Analyst with an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania, and has a B.A. in Economics and Management from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin.
Eric is a financier and serial entrepreneur whose Wall Street career as an investment banker was spent capitalizing tech companies and startups which led to dozens of IPOs and successful exits.
His joint venture with a leading commercial radar manufacturer was awarded an AFWERX - Air Force SBIR contract in 2018. One of his portfolio companies has a current STTR contract with the Army in the topic area of GPS Positioning, Navigation and Timing.
RECENT ACTIVITIES
Featured speaker - “SBIR Opportunities in Defense” at the Light and Sound Interactive -
Optoelectronic Conference, Rochester NY June 2019.
Featured speaker - “Sensor and Sensory Rich Environments”, Rockland Autism Symposium, Pearl River NY October 2019.
Eric has been involved in extensive real estate development activities in Park Slope Brooklyn, where he grew up. Bashford served as Trustee of the Board of Education in Briarcliff Manor, New York from 2009 to 2012. His work on identifying and resolving the school district's severe environmental problems was featured in a major article in the Huffington Post in 2012. He is a past member of the Village of Briarcliff Manor Zoning Board. Eric is Vice Chair of the Wharton Club of New York Real Estate Investment Group.