Mike Cheiky This is Me

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1. 1. biz.yahoo.com

   biz.yahoo.com/bw/080117/200801 - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/22/2008   Last Visited: 1/22/2008

   "We are very pleased with Khosla Ventures' increased position in the company and Vinod Khosla's increased personal involvement, in particular," said Mike Cheiky, president and CEO of Transonic.

2. 2. Transonic Combustion | Leadership

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   Published on: 11/8/2007   Last Visited: 11/8/2007

   Mike Cheiky, President, Founder and Director
   
   45 patents issued/pending and sited reference in over 200 additional patents in four areas of technology.
   
   For the last few years, Mike has been very concerned about global warming and the world's dwindling oil supply. As a pioneer of air cathodes as used in fuel cells and some batteries, Mike has come to the opinion that radical technologies such as fuel cells and the hydrogen economy can not be deployed fast enough to address the world's near term energy and green house gas problems. Because of this, Mike has worked intensely on a group of technologies which could dramatically increase the efficiency of gasoline engines, thus, reducing fossil fuel needs and global warming without massive new infrastructure. In late 2005, he developed working prototypes which have been confidentially reviewed by several leading university experts. In July 2006, he formed Transonic Combustion, Inc. with several of America's top venture capital firms, to bring these new engine technologies to the internal combustion engine marketplace.
   
   In the late 90's, Mike formed V-Star and Zinc Matrix Power, Inc. V-Star pioneered rich media on cell phones in the US via a development contract for the Sprint Vision system. Mike invented 1KTV, an ultra-low data rate video system for limited bandwidth cell phones, which is still used today on select Sprint and Nextel phones. V-Star is now GOTV networks www.1ktv.com.
   
   Concurrently with V-Star, Mike founded Zinc Matrix Power, Inc. to develop rechargeable zinc batteries for emerging smart phones www.zmp.com. The Company conducted a highly successful handheld field test in 2000 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), but repositioned to military applications soon after 9/11. ZMP entered into a strategic partnership with Intel in 2004 for laptop computers and received investments from Intel Capital and OnPoint, a venture capital fund of the US Army. Mike brought in later stage management to both V-Star and ZMP who have subsequently attracted later round venture capital funding.
   
   In the 80's, Mike and wife, Charity, ran an electric race car/research team, Dreisbach Electromotive, Inc. (DEMI) which set numerous electric vehicle speed and range records and won the Department of Energy's first electric stock car race. (Front cover Popular Science, July 1991). An investor group spun out DEMI's zinc air battery technology to Air Energy Resources, Inc. (AERN). Later stage management took AERN public on NASDAQ via Prudential Securities in 1994 yielding a large multiple to DEMI's race team backers. The result of this work appears in modern digital compatible hearing aid zinc-air cells.
   
   Mike started Ohio Scientific immediately after college with wife Charity. Ohio Scientific, an early microcomputer company is credited with shipping the first fully assembled floppy disk based microcomputer and the first non-removable (Winchester) hard disk microcomputer. Sold to M/A-COM Corporation (Now part of Tyco) in 1980 for a large return to investors. Wife, Charity, as Company president, was the front cover story of Money Magazine, January 1981.
   
   Mike went on to form M/A-COM Santa Barbara Labs, who's technology was later acquired by HP for their Vectra line of touch screen PCs. Mike subsequently ran a think tank for HP from 1985 to 1993.
   
   BA Physics, Hiram College 1974. Named top physics student in Ohio in 1969 by the Ohio Academy of Sciences (High School).

3. 3. Zinc Matrix Power: Board of Directors

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   Published on: 8/2/2006   Last Visited: 8/2/2006

   Mike Cheiky, Director and Founder B.A. Physics, 1974, Hiram College, Ohio. Founded Ohio Scientific, an early microcomputer company, immediately after college.