Technology >> CEO Interviews >> May 2, 2005
JOHN STUART is Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary
and Treasurer of Irvine Sensors Corporation. Mr. Stuart has played a
senior role during the entire operating history of Irvine Sensors, first
as a consultant assisting in the company's IPO and subsequently as CFO
and in his other positions. Mr. Stuart's association with John C.
Carson, Irvine Sensor's CEO and Founder, extends prior to the formation
of Irvine Sensors, from the days when they were both undergraduates
together at MIT. Mr. Stuart has a Bachelor of Science degree in
Industrial Management from MIT and is co-inventor on two US patents. Profile
JOHN C. CARSON is President and CEO of Irvine Sensors Corporation. Upon
graduation from MIT with a BS in Physics and Philosophy, he joined Baird
Atomics, Inc., in Cambridge and Waltham, Massachusetts, where he became
Project Engineer and Assistant Program Manager on a space-based infrared
surveillance program. He left Baird Atomics in 1967 to form a
consulting company for sensor systems design and development, with
clients that included North American Aviation, Honeywell, Lockheed, Ford
Aeronutronics, and Grumman. Over the years, this company evolved into
Irvine Sensors Corporation of which Mr. Carson is the current President.
Mr. Carson has been responsible for the design and development of space-
based military and NASA sensor systems, commercial spectrometers,
commercial laser printers, 3-D electronics, and various sensor and
electronics systems for the military. Mr. Carson is the holder of 21
patents. In addition to his Irvine Sensors duties, he chairs the
Industry Advisory Board for the Caltech Center for Neuromorphic Systems
Engineering and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Egg
Factory, an incubation firm headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia. Profile
Sensors Corporation and a picture of things as they are now.
Mr. Carson: The company began its business in January 1980. It
