- Prior experience founding and operating companies
- Long-cycle project execution in environments where validation and reliability are non-negotiable
- A disciplined approach to risk management, staged development, and system-level accountability
- Academic partnerships with leading research institutions in sensing science and applied physics
- Deep familiarity with the gap between laboratory capability and field deployment and what it takes to close it
The company maintains research relationships with faculty and institutions recognized for their contributions to physical measurement science, including affiliations with leading engineering programs. These relationships inform the platform’s technical foundation and support ongoing validation work.
Jeff Leaders
President & CEO
Georgia research liaison
Jeff is a proven creator of commercially successful platforms. He previously founded a non-invasive water-metering sensor platform, based on a prior academic research collaboration. The company scaled to 200,000+ deployed units before being acquired by a major insurer. Jeff is a graduate of Iowa State University and the University of Kansas.
Jim Thomas
COO
Indiana research liaison
Jim is a serial entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded 10 companies, with over $3B of assets created through those ventures. Jim brings a long history of aligning capital with outside technical and production expertise for the successful creation of physical products. He holds an undergraduate degree and two graduate degrees from MIT.
Brian Cranor
CFO
Brian is the venture’s financial lead and has worked with Thomas and Leaders for decades, including involvement at the earliest stages of the sensor platform. He is a former CPA and holds degrees from Ball State University and the University of Houston.
