Officers & Directors
Joseph Fuda
President, Chief Executive Officer
Joseph Fuda has been President, CEO and a Director of Micromem since February, 2002. Before leading Micromem, Mr. Fuda was involved in the investment banking industry and was a principal shareholder, director and Vice-President with EFI Capital, a Toronto-based financial services firm sold in 2003. EFI had offices across Canada and owned and operated insurance, brokerage and trust services.
Dan Amadori
Chief Financial Officer
Dan Amadori has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services sector. After graduating with a B.Comm from McGill in 1972, an MBA from Ivey Business School in 1974, he joined Arthur Andersen & Co. He qualified as a CA in 1976 and spent 12 years in public practice. In 1986 Mr. Amadori assumed the position of President of a privately held communications business. This company grew and was ultimately sold to a large public entity in 1988. In 1988 Mr. Amadori founded Lamerac Financial Corp, a corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions firm. He has successfully concluded numerous transactions in different industry sectors across North America. Mr. Amadori has served as CFO of a number of public and private companies over the past decade and currently serves as an officer or a director of several other public and private companies.
Oliver Nepomuceno
Director
Mr. Nepomuceno has served as a Director of Micromem Technologies Inc. since June, 2006. He is currently an investment officer for Crystal Business S.A., an investment company based in Lugano, Switzerland. His principal responsibility is to manage commercial and investment businesses worldwide in several fields and industries. Under his direction, numerous companies have been able to improve their business and generate profitability worldwide. In addition to acting as an investment advisor, Mr. Nepomuceno oversees portfolio management for private clients. Mr. Nepomuceno previously served as a Director of Echo Energy Canada Inc, an Ontario based producer of natural gas.
Alex Dey
Director
Mr. Dey has been a Director of Micromem since 2012. He operated as Alex Dey, Chartered Accountant until August, 2004 at which point he retired from private practice. He continues to provide professional services to a number of small businesses.
Brian Von Herzen
Director
Dr. Von Herzen is a graduate of Caltech, Princeton and a recipient of the Hertz Foundation Fellowship, with extensive experience in the design and development of electronic systems and integrated circuits as well as software systems and hardware/software co-design. He has developed software and hadware systems ranging from apps on smartphones to multi-GHz correlating spectrometers for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. He has extensive experience with electronic and optical system development for commercial electronic products.
Since 1993, Dr. Von Herzen has served as Chief Executive Officer at Rapid Protoypes, Inc. providing turnkey electronic product design services, including commercial product specifications and fully functional engineering product prototypes, frequently using programmable logic devices. Rapid Prototypes is expert in electronic engineering design technologies designed to minimize time to market for new electronic products in networking, consumer electronics and other commercial products. The company has developed some of the world’s fastest commercial FPGA applications. Dr. Von Herzen also serves on the board of directors of the Climate Foundation and Bright Energy Storage Technologies, LLP.