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Paul M. ZavrackyMEMSIC, Inc. - Committee Composition
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Paul M. Zavracky Member of Audit CommitteeMember of Compensation Committee
Director
Paul M. Zavracky has served as a director since 1999.Dr. Zavracky's more than 30 years of business experience includes research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, teaching at a major university, and management of successful venture funded companies.Prior to joining Northeastern as the Dean of the School of Technological Entrepreneurship, he was the president and chief operating officer of The MicroOptical Corporation, a start-up company he co-founded.Between 1991 and 1998, he was a tenured professor of electrical engineering at Northeastern University where he established a micro-electromechanical systems program that developed both surface and bulk micromachined devices.He raised more than $9 million in research funding.Dr. Zavracky was the chief operating officer of Kopin Corporation, a venture backed company that he and a small group of colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Labs started.He led the effort in establishing Kopin's SOI materials capability as an enabling technology for liquid crystal microdisplays.Dr. Zavracky spent five years at The Foxboro Company as principal scientist and technical group leader establishing a MEMS program beginning in 1980.Dr. Zavracky also spent five years at Coulter Corporation managing the government system group working on electrophotographic film and five years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he was involved in the development of materials for solar energy applications.He obtained his Ph.D. in physics at Tufts University.He holds bachelors and master's degrees in physics from Northeastern University.He has more than 100 publications and 67 issued patents.