Mr. AdvisorsEric C. Close This is Me

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1. 1. RedZone Robotics

   www.redzone.com/index.cfm?meth - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/17/2005   Last Visited: 10/17/2005

   Board of AdvisorsEric C. Close - President and CEO
   
   Mr. Close is responsible for the overall strategy and direction of RedZone. He has extensive experience building and managing both product and serviced based emerging companies. Prior to Redzone, he co-founded and successfully sold 2 companies: PartsZone, a provider of parts for lifts, and ProLine Services, a provider of railcar manufacturing and maintenance. He also helped finance and successfully sell Blue Fish Labs, Inc., a Pittsburgh software developer. Mr. Close also served as a management consultant for Coopers and Lybrand. From 1991 to 1995, Mr. Close served as a design engineer, product line manager, and sales engineer at Performance Controls, Inc., a motion control and robotics company.
   
   Mr. Close received the 1999 Western Pennsylvania Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He is the primary inventor on two patents and has three patents pending. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.