Dr. Al Joseph

Dr. Joseph, a co-founder of NeoTek, has for 20 years specialized in consulting for major corporations; Raytheon, General Dynamics, Dow Chemical, Booz-Allen and Amoco, and to a greater extent on start-up companies; Flextronics, N-Chip, Symyx, Intermolecular, Peregrine, Tessera, Aclara and others. Prior to his consulting career, Dr. Joseph founded 3 successful companies. His first company was Enhanced Energy Systems, a pioneer in downhole steam generators for heavy oil reservoirs. He sold this company to Brunswick in 1982. In 1984, he founded Vitesse Semiconductor, specializing in high speed chip sets for the communications market. Vitesse went IPO in 1995 and had a market value of $18B by 2001. Dr. Joseph cofounded Quad Design in 1987 developing CAD tools for high performance electronics. Quad was sold to Synopsis. Dr. Joseph began his career in basic physics research at Rockwell’s Science Center, where for 5 years he focused on Low Temperature Physics as a tool to study superconductivity and the physics of metal. During the 5 years, Dr. Joseph published 32 papers, was the first to discover and correctly interpret the 3rd superconducting Hc3. Dr. Joseph discovered and properly interpreted the magnetic-breakdown phenomenon in Rhenium; discovered de haas-van Alpen effect in magnetic nickel, and mapped the Fermi surfaces of zinc, Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Zr and Re. For these discoveries, he was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Physics just 3.5 years after his PhD. Dr. Joseph holds a BS in Physics from Union College and a PhD in Physics from Case Western Reserve.