Thin Battery Technology (Printed Electronics USA 2006)

 

Gary R. Johnson is the President and CEO of Thin Battery Technologies, Inc. TBT is the leading supplier of thin, flexible, eco-friendly printed power source solutions. He joined the company as an independent director in 2005 and in 2006 assumed his current position. The company closed a $6.2 million Series A funding in March 2007 and today is transitioning from late stage development into growth.

 

Prior to joining TBT Gary led multiple international technology-related businesses in early stage, high growth, exit and turnaround phases as an executive and director. The venture backers of FLXmicro, Inc., a troubled development stage enterprise spun out of Case Western Reserve University, in 2005 named Gary as president and CEO. He defined and secured the funding to execute a turnaround strategy. The company has raised follow on financing and today is a leader in polycrystalline silicon carbide microstructures. Gary continues as a director.

 

In 1983 he partnered with a local investment banker to form a private equity group to accomplish a leveraged buy-out of Sawyer Research Products, Inc., a leading producer of quartz crystal material for frequency control and optics with sales of $2.5 million and mounting losses. Gary guided the company into a leadership position in markets associated with mobile communications and automotive applications. Under his guidance sales profitably increased to $40 million. Starting in 2001 until 2004 Gary led a retrenchment and financial restructuring of the company that resulted in a return to profitability and a successful recapitalization.

 

Gary holds a BSEE degree from Purdue University and an MS Industrial Administration degree from the Krannert Graduate School Management of the same university.

 

He is active in the Northeast Ohio community, including service as Chairman of the Board of the Cleveland Institute of Art since 2004.

Blue Spark Technologies, the world's leading producer of solutions for wearable and flexible electronics. An innovator in the wearable medical device space, Blue Spark utilizes its proprietary, patented, printed battery technology to develop disruptive technologies in printed and flexible electronics.

 

Headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, Blue Spark Technologies was founded as the leader in developing thin, flexible, printed battery solutions based on intellectual property licensed from Energizer®. Blue Spark Technologies' latest innovation, TempTraq®, is the only Bluetooth®, wearable temperature monitor in the form of a soft, comfortable patch that continuously, safely and comfortably, monitors body temperature for up to 72 hours and sends alerts to Apple® or Android™ compatible mobile devices. The company's TempTraq Connect HIPAA-compliant service supported by Google Healthcare Cloud Platform allows parents and caregivers to monitor body temperature from anywhere. It also allows direct integration with health care provider electronic health records (EHR) systems and central nursing stations, providing a secure method of storing patient health care data.

 

In addition to delivering battery technology to complementary solution developers, Blue Spark has developed an innovative line of industrial wireless sensing products.