David Anthony is an experienced entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and educator. Mr. Anthony sits on the board of portfolio companies: Agent Video Intelligence, 3GSolar, BioPetroClean, Juice Wireless, and VOIP Logic. David is on the board of directors of publicly traded World Water and Solar, where he functions as the chairman of the audit committee and chair of the compensation committee.
David is an Adjunct Professor at the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). The Academy, based in Manhattan, brings together scientists of different disciplines from around the world to advance the understanding of science, technology, and medicine, and to stimulate new ways to think about how their research is applied in society and the world. The Academy is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost organizers of scientific conferences and symposia. David's students at the Academy hail from such prestigious institutions as Columbia, NYU, Princeton, Yale, Rockefeller University, Sloan Kettering, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
In 1995, David launched Notorious Entertainment, a developer of multimedia brands, which published the internationally distributed magazine, Notorious, and developed an early streaming website. In 1998, he sold the company to entertainment mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, and ran the company for two subsequent years. Before Notorious, Mr. Anthony, with Dartmouth College professor Dr. John K. Shank, consulted for Fortune 500 clients on capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, and entrepreneurship.
David received his MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1989 and a BA in economics from George Washington University in 1982. He is an entrepreneurship mentor at the Land Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. In 2002, David was awarded the Distinguished Mentor of the Year Award from Columbia University.
Dr. Dileep Agnihotri - Principal & Acting CEO
Dr. Agnihotri is the acting CEO of “Graphene Energy Inc”. Before joining the company, he spent 8 years with a technology start-up, “Jordan Valley Semiconductors”, which became #3 in the thin-film metrology market segment and the market leader in x-ray based in-line thin film metrology for semiconductor manufacturing. Dileep worked in the capacity of Director for Marketing and managed various aspects of Technical, Strategic, Products, Technology and Applications marketing. He also ramped up the technical team for worldwide applications and actively participated in the early stage technology development. Prior to Jordan Valley, Dileep worked for another start-up “Amia Laboratories” which was acquired by a larger corporation (Rigaku) in the x-ray field. Dileep has over 10 years of experience in various x-ray technologies and their applications in the semiconductor industry. He played a pioneering role in the introduction of fast x-ray metrologies to semiconductor manufacturing. Prior to semiconductors, Dileep spent 8 years working in the field of Nuclear Chemistry, which involved neutron and charge particle detection technologies and research on fundamental nuclear matter interactions.
Dileep holds a PhD in Nuclear Chemistry/Physics and an MS in Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester, NY. He also has an MS in Physics from Agra University. Dileep has published over 30 articles and holds nearly half a dozen patents. Dileep’s interests and expertise include new and disruptive technologies, their market potential and commercialization aspects, in particular, for Solar, Nuclear, Semiconductors, Energy storage, X-rays, new Materials for various industries and Detector technologies.
Prof. Rod Ruoff - Principal, Coinventor & Technology Advisor
Prof. Ruoff is a coinventor for Graphene Technology and a principal in the company. Prior to joining The University of Texas at Austin as a Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Mechanical Engineering, Prof. Rod Ruoff served as Director of the Biologically Inspired Materials Institute at Northwestern University. He has been a ‘Visiting Chair Professor’ at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the U. of Texas (Austin) and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois-Urbana. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Max Planck Institute-Goettingen, Germany. From ‘89-’90, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York. Prior to joining Northwestern in 2000, he was a Staff Scientist at the Molecular Physics Laboratory of SRI International and Associate Professor of Physics at Washington University. His research activities include global environment and energy; synthesis and physical/chemical properties of nanostructures and composites; nanorobotics, NEMS, and developing new tools for biomedical research. Prof. Ruoff has published ~185 refereed journal articles in the fields of chemistry, physics, mechanics, & materials science.
Meryl Stoller - Principal & Coinventor
Meryl Stoller is a co-inventor for Graphene Energy and a principle in the company. Meryl has over 15 years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing holding positions in photolithography processing and metrology at AT&T Technologies (now Lucent) and Motorola (now Freescale). In 1988, Meryl joined the wafer inspection division at KLA Instruments. At KLA, Meryl managed the applications group for the central US and was responsible for implementing yield management systems at customer wafer fabs and managing joint research and development programs with strategic accounts. After the merger with Tencor, Meryl joined KLA-Tencor's newly formed yield management consulting division. There, Meryl worked in the capacity of Senior Director of Yield Management Solutions and was responsible for new service development and marketing for defect inspection solutions. Meryl also served as Senior Director of Consulting Operations responsible for managing the consulting division's worldwide operations.
Meryl holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University in Manhattan. He also holds an MBA from the University of Vermont. Meryl's current research interests include the application of graphene based materials to electrical energy storage and nanocomposites.
Dr. Dileep Agnihotri - Principal & Acting CEO 
Prof. Rod Ruoff - Principal, Coinventor & Technology Advisor 
Meryl Stoller - Principal & Coinventor