About Us
Board of Directors
Abdi Mahamedi - Chairman
Abdi Mahamedi is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Carlyle Development Group of Companies (CDG) which develops and manages residential and commercial properties in the United States on behalf of investors worldwide. Abdi Mahamedi is a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania where he received both his B.S.E. & M.S.E. degrees in Civil and Structural Engineering. He was a founder and director of Emanuel Land Company, a subsidiary of Emanuel & Company, a Wall Street investment banking firm. His responsibilities with CDG include the evaluation and supervision of all investment activities and management personnel.
Ricardo Salas
Ricardo Salas began serving as Liquidmetal Technologies Executive Vice President on December 1, 2008. He previously served as our Chief Executive Officer and President from December 30, 2005 through October 8, 2006. Mr. Salas also served as a Board member of the Company from April 1995 to May 2003. From January 2000 through June 2005, Mr. Salas served as Chief Executive Officer of iLIANT Corporation, an information technology and outsourcing service firm in the health care industry.
He currently serves as a director of VillageEDOCS, a technology company providing software-as-a-service to the financial services, healthcare and various industries, a director with the MED 3000Group, and a director of the public company CyberDefender.
Mr. Salas received a B.A. degree in Economics from Harvard College in 1986.
Mark Hansen
Mark Hansen is presently the Managing Partner of Cobalt Development Partners LLC, a firm focusing on the development of emerging consumer and intellectual property companies. With a thirty year history of executive management experience serving consumers through retail, Mark has served as the President and CEO of SAM's Club, which generated $23 billion dollars in revenue amidst a workforce of 75 thousand employees. Mark Hansen has also served as President and CEO of PetSmart, the largest dominant retailer of pet supplies and services in the country.
In addition to his significant service sector corporate leadership responsibilities, Mark also has a number of previous and present Board of Director positions to his credit including Applebee's Restaurants and Amazon.com.
Scott Gillis
Mr. Gillis is currently a Senior Vice President, Finance, of SunAmerica Financial Group, specializing in retirement savings and investment product services. In addition, Scott Gillis serves on the boards of directors of five additional insurance companies including, Western National Life Insurance, Variable Annuity Life Insurance, SunAmerica Life Insurance, SunAmerica Annuity and Life Insurance, and First SunAmerica Life
Insurance Company.
Gillis began his career at SunAmerica Life as Director of Audit and worked through the ranks becoming CFO in 2004. In 2011 he was named a Senior Vice President of the SunAmerica Financial Group. Mr. Gillis has also served in managerial financial positions with Price Waterhouse and Company, Siemens Energy and Automation and Integrated Circuits, along with memberships in several CPA organizations nationwide.
Tom Steipp
Thomas Steipp is a senior executive with a 30 year track record of leading and transforming global technology companies. He is a proven, results-oriented leader with a history of successfully optimizing teams, operations and processes to maximize earnings and build shareholder value.
As President and Chief Executive Officer of Symmetricom, Inc. (SYMM) from 1998 through 2009, Mr. Steipp led this 1100-employee public corporation through a strategic transformation from a technology holding company model into an advanced telecommunications hardware centered business. Prior to Symmetricom, Mr. Steipp was the Vice President and General Manager of Broadband Data Networks at Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
Mr. Steipp graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and earned a M.B.A. from Purdue University.