NSTI Founders

Matthew Laudon, Ph.D.

Executive Director - Business Development

Dr. Matthew Laudon is co-founder and executive director of business development for the Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Laudon is an expert in academic to business relations. He obtained a Ph.D. with the Wisconsin Center for Nanotechnology and Synchrotron Radiation Center and has subsequently worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Motorola in Los Alamos National Laboratories and numerous Boston area start-ups in micro and nanotechnology commercialization and partnership development. He has worked as a technology commercialization consultant for; VC, legal, academic, start-up and established technology corporations. Dr. Laudon has served as an NSF – NNI proposal reviewer and as an advisor for the Massachusetts Nanotechnology Initiative. He has published over 30 technical publications and patents in topics ranging from nanotechnology, semiconductors, microsystems and optics. Dr. Laudon is the co-founder of the Nano Science and Technology Institute and is the co-founder and chair of the International Nanotechnology Conference (Nanotech 1998 – 2005).

Bart F. Romanowicz, Sc.D.

Executive Director - Technology Development

Dr. Bart Romanowicz is co-founder and executive director of technology development for the Nano Science and Technology Institute in Cambridge, MA. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, working in the Microsystems Institute. Dr. Romanowicz is an expert in matching technology capabilities with industrial needs for commercialization. He has served as a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an industrial and academic partner manager at the Microsystems firm Coventor and as technology team lead with the Boston based Axiowave Networks, Inc. and CFD Research Corporation. Romanowicz has over 40 technical publications primarily in microsystem design, is the author of Methodology for the Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, Kluwer (1998), is the co-founder and chair of the Nanotech International Conference and Trade Show and is Managing Editor or Editor in Chief of two journals and two annuals in micro and nano technologies.

Sarah J. Wenning, BA

Operations Manager and Co-Founder

Ms. Wenning is the co-founder of the Nano Science and Technology Institute and has served as Operations Manager for all NSTI events since 1997.