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20 markets and harnessing Frontier Nano’s capabilities, significant gains can be made in light-weighting, energy efficiency, and development of unrealized new technologies.” Frontier Motion (the partnership) blends Systems Solutions Engineering advanced vehicle and power train systems, evolving from rudimentary transportation devices to highly integrated, efficient, and powerful vehicles with maximum occupant comfort and convenience. “Many of these gains have been the direct result of intelligent and evolutionary use of electronics in control systems and recently in electric traction and power generation systems. With successful application of Frontier NanoSystems’ capabilities and SSE’s foresight into what is needed for next generation vehicles and products, very lucrative profitability will result, along with game- changing efficiency, convenience, and yet to be realized vehicle designs,” Kubes concludes. L. Pierre de Rochemont has over 85 U.S. and global patents that define innovative commercial applications of Big Nano and other higher value products enabled by ultra-high performance materials. He was born in New York City, NY, where he spent his formative years, before relocating with his family to Montreal, Canada. He earned his B.Sc. (Physics) / M.Eng. (Electrical) degrees from McGill University after successfully completing the Advanced Placement Math & Physics program at Dartmouth College. Along his life path Mr. de Rochemont’s business worldview was shaped by mentors that included: Emmett Murtha, the former IBM Director of Business Development and Licensing, who architected the Sematech semiconductor consortium, worked with Intel Corporation’s founders Andy Grove and Gordon Moore to make the Intel microprocessor the IBM standard, and negotiated the MS DOS license; Mark Melliar-Smith, a former CTO for Lucent/AT&T Bell Labs advised him in 2004/2005 that he “faced very tough sledding ahead” due to the fact U.S. financial institutions had completely shut off capital financing in his field, his counsel transformed Pierre from a technologist into an industrialist keenly focused on developing only technologies that resolved major macroeconomic problems; Keith Moe, the former 3M, Senior Executive Vice President of Operations, Electronics and Telecommunications Group credited with saving 3Mwhen it went into a tailspin in the mid-1990s; and, Forrest W. Breyfogle III, President & CEO of Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE), an operational business system that provides tools and methodology to improve business efficiencies from the board room to the factory floor. Mr. de Rochemont started his career in 1986 as a gallium arsenide Semiconductor Engineer for Epitronics Corp., Phoenix, AZ, making and characterizing III-V compound semiconducting multilayer structures for ANVIS-spec night vision devices used in Apache helicopters. He was later employed as an R&D Scientist with SpecTran Corp., Sturbridge, MA, the first licensed manufacturer of Telco and datacom optical fiber (1987-1990). There, he managed projects that developed heavy-metal fluoride glass now used in long- CEO TODAY USA AWARDS 2020