Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
Beta-Rubicon offers the unique ability to assess a very broad range of technologies. The cornerstone of this capability is a group of professional staff and associated consultants who together possess the technical expertise necessary to provide independent and competent technology consulting, technology assessment, and due diligence services. Most significantly, Beta-Rubicon maintains a pool of more than 225 consulting associates whose expertise covers an impressively wide array of technology and business areas. Our consulting team represents over 4,500 years of combined experience in this diverse selection of industries.
Each month we feature a few of our experts in the following section of our web site. Talk to us about bringing our unrivaled project teams to bear on your technology assessment and due diligence issues.
| Dr. Herbert E. Spiegel | |
| Affiliation | President and Chief Scientific Officer, Applied Science & Technology Associates |
| Degrees | B.Sc., Chemistry; Brooklyn College M.Sc., Biochemistry; George Washington University Medical School Ph.D., Biochemistry and Physiology; Rutgers University M.B.A.; Fairleigh Dickinson University |
| Expertise | Advance technology business review, small technical business evaluations, grant and protocol review, clinical biochemistry, biochemical pharmacology. toxicological chemistry. |
| Experience | 30 years |
| Dr. C. David Covington | |
| Affiliation | Private Consultant; CEO Finite Magic, Inc. |
| Degrees | B.S.E.E.; Rice University, Houston, Texas M.E.E.,; Rice University, Houston, Texas Ph.D., Electrical Engineering; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas |
| Expertise | RF design, high speed digital design, adaptive algorithms, dsp in all forms, speech recognition, audio processing, video processing, real time systems, audio and video compression algorithms. |
| Experience | 23 years |
Dr. Roger W. Barton Affiliation Independent Consultant Degrees B.S., Physics; Cornell University
M.S., Materials Science; Stanford University
Ph.D., Materials Science; Stanford University Expertise Materials analysis, materials processing, micromachining, superconductors, display technologies, semiconductors, thin films, optoelectonics, semiconductor device design Experience 26 years
