Leadership
Executive Team
Michael Liddle
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Vineet Dharmadhikari
Chief Technology Officer
Shamren Fletcher
Chief Operating Officer
Craig Froome
SVP Global Strategy & Business Development
Jess Turnbull
VP Implementation
Peter Kittel
SVP/GM PATHION Axis
Wind Turbines
Mike Liddle is CEO of PATHION and also serves on the company’s board of directors. Liddle has a broad background spanning 30 years in executive, financial and operational roles in both public and private companies. Prior to PATHION, Mr. Liddle served for 5 years as CEO of Home Director, Inc., a public company, which had spun out of IBM, and which he took over to complete a turn-around. He guided the company through several rounds of financing and a complete re-organization. Home Director was a leading supplier of technology infrastructure for new homes and offered complete solutions for entertainment, security and energy management. Prior to Home Director, Mr. Liddle held managing director positions to provide consulting services to major corporations, early stage technology companies and venture capital firms raising hundreds of millions of dollars in capital, ultimately becoming a managing director of a boutique investment bank. He also held roles as CEO, building executive teams, growth and exit strategies at semiconductor, set-top box, networking, and internet companies. Additionally, he built strong operating and financial plans, management teams, boards of directors and access to customers both domestically and internationally. Mr. Liddle was one of the first employees of Electronic Arts as part of the marketing and programming team that introduced some of the leading games to the market. Subsequently, he held executive level positions in sales, product marketing, and business development at Slate Corporation, Autodesk, Avistar Corporation, and Eyematic Interfaces, pioneers in mobile computing, engineering, collaboration, and recognition and animation. Slate Corporation was one of the first mobile computing companies, providing technology to various government agencies, including the military and intelligence departments. Avistar provided secure video communications and data collaboration solutions used by licensed securities firms, the US military and several embassies around the world. Eyematic Interfaces was a leading provider of embedded access control technology and biometrics used in hardened facilities around the world. Mike holds a BA in Economics from The University of California, San Diego. He has served as a director of both public and privately held companies.
Dr. Dharmadhikari, an entrepreneur and 30 years Industry veteran is the CTO and acting Senior Vice President of Engineering at PATHION Inc. Prior to joining PATHION, he served as Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Ultrasolar Technology and as Chief Operations Officer at Stion Corporation, both ventured backed startups in renewable energy. Previously, he was also the co-founder and CEO of Optimus Energy Systems International, a renewable energy project developer focused on design, build, & operation of efficient, technologically-advanced PV power plants worldwide. Prior to his work in the renewable energy space, Dr. Dharmadhikari, served as Vice President and General Manager at KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC), a provider of process control and yield management solutions for semiconductors and solar industries with over $1.5 billion in revenue and at Novellus Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVLS, now acquired by Lam Research Corporation), a leading supplier of semiconductor capital equipment with over $1 billion in revenues, Vice President of Engineering at Intevac, Inc. (NASDAQ: IVAC), Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Aixtron AG (NASDAQ: AIXG, formerly Genus, Inc.) and Senior Principal Engineer at Intersil, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISIL, formerly Harris Semiconductors). During his stay at Harris, he was also involved as a Harris assignee in the startup of SEMATECH (a US consortium formed for the revival of US semiconductor equipment and manufacturing technology). Dr. Dharmadhikari holds his Ph.D. and MS in Physical Sciences and completed his Post-Doctoral research at the University of New Mexico in Photovoltaic-Ferroelectric Non-Volatile Memory devices. He has over 50+ technical publications and 4 patents.
With over 20 years of executive management experience, Mark Richman is an accomplished operational and strategic focused CFO in both a public and private company sectors and in his career has directly overseen the Finance & Accounting, Investor Relations, Manufacturing, HR, Legal, FP&A, R&D, and Tax functions in both hyper-growth and restructuring environments. His background includes extensive international experience including overseeing global finance operations, establishing foreign subsidiaries, implementing international tax optimization strategies, and raising capital in both domestic and foreign markets. Mark has raised over $3B in funding ranging from private company preferred equity and venture debt to complex public company cross-border financings including secondary public equity offerings. Additionally, Mark has directly participated and lead over 10 global M&A transactions valued at over $3B in both the private and public sectors. Most recently, Mark served as CFO at WinView, Zentri, Digital Chocolate, Hoana Medical, Terayon Communications Systems & Covad Communications.
Shamren Fletcher has served in a managerial and/or ownership position within a variety of companies and organizations ranging from food service and retail to start-ups in technology, professional consultation and college planning services and mentorship for college-bound students. Shamren has created and developed start-up businesses on both small and large scales, built client, community and affiliate relationships, developed sales and management teams of over 300 people, and developed effective business strategies and operational procedures in a variety of businesses.
Shamren brings 40 years experience as a sales, business development and operations leader and mentor, with a unique set of management and administrative skills. She is passionate about getting to know her clients and business partners to effectively help them meet their business goals. Additionally, Shamren, along with four co-founders, has created a Nevada-based, federated charity: Innocents In Need, Inc. This charity is dedicated to grant-funding non-profit organizations whose sole purpose will be to provide long-term residential treatment to survivors of child sex trafficking.
Peter Kittel has over 45 years experience in law, engineering, construction and finance. As former in-house legal counsel and company director of several corporations, Peter has expertise in taking companies from start-up to scaled-up successful enterprise. Peter holds multiple renewable energy technology patents and is the inventor of Pathion’s next generation of technologically-advanced urban wind turbines that we will soon take to market. Peter brings his strong management skills, innovative ideas, as well as a proven record of the delivery of major projects to PATHION.
With 18 years in systems, energy, and project execution, Jess Turnbull leads project integration into the energy markets across the country and internationally. At the leading edge of renewable energies from solar and biofuels to energy storage and management systems throughout his career.
Craig Froome has a background in commerce, law and environmental management with extensive consulting experience. Mr. Froome’s expertise includes solar energy deployment options, energy economics, and renewable energy policy. He has undertaken numerous projects looking at renewable energy deployments for government and industry. With the University of Queensland School of Economics, he has worked on the I-Grid Research Cluster with the CSIRO Distributed Energy Flagship, an Australian collaboration between the CSIRO and five universities investigating technologies and practices to make our electricity networks smart, greener and more efficient. Mr. Froome has undertaken a number of consulting projects that has looked at the deployment of renewable energy technologies including shopping centers, industrial parks, and ports. Mr. Froome, holds degrees in Finance, Business Law with an advanced degree in Sustainable Development.