SkyTran, Inc. Key Personnel
A diverse and experienced management team capable of addressing and overcoming all challenges.
Doug Malewicki - Inventor of SkyTran/Company Founder
Mr. Malewicki is the inventor of the SkyTran light weight, high speed, low cost, on-demand, personal/mass transportation concept. He is currently President/Chief Scientist for AeroVisions, Inc. a company he founded in 1974 and incorporated in 1980 for the purpose developing, promoting and commercializing his numerous inventions. These range from his ROBOSAURUS — the patented 40 foot tall, 58,000 pound, fire breathing, junk car eating monster entertainment robot that thrills stadium audiences all over the world to his super aerodynamic CALIFORNIA COMMUTER. Malewicki set two official Guinness World records for achieving over 150 miles per gallon fuel efficiency on cross-country runs at freeway speeds with his CALIFORNIA COMMUTER.
Prolific inventor Malewicki is a low cost design innovation specialist, aerodynamicist, engineering structural analyst, automation consultant and vehicle performance analyst. Malewicki earned a Masters of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. Malewicki has authored numerous technical papers, several books and even a cover feature article for Scientific American magazine. He is a visionary who enjoys creating "impossible" futuristic machines (Check out Malewicki’s www.CanoSOARus.com web site to learn about the RB 2000 personal rocket belt, the White Lightning 300 mph electric car, the Jet Motorcycle and his X-1 Skycycle canyon jumping rocket for Evel Knievel!) Malewicki is also a skilled craftsman who understands machining, welding, advanced composites manufacturing, plastic injection molding, etc. to know what can and can't be economically builtand the costs involved.
Bruce Sargeant — Electrical Engineering Adviser
Mr. Sargeant is currently the President of Collinear Research Corporation. Collinear applies technology, both electronic hardware and software, for use in a diverse range of products for OEM customers in the areas of medical instrumentation, industrial control/instrumentation and fitness equipment. Major customers include Sorin Biomedical, Baxter Health Care, Eclipse Surgical, Mountz, Cybex Fitness, Nike, and Schwinn. In addition, Mr. Sargeant has over 20 years of experience in creating and implementing products and management teams for various technological applications.
Frank Baker - Control System Software Advisor
Len Stobar - Design, Art, Ergonomics, and Producibility AdvisorMr. Baker is presently Vice President of Monitoring Automation Systems, world’s leading supplier of non-stop computer systems for continuous monitoring of commercial and residential burglar and fire systems. At MAS, Baker is responsible for R & D and special projects. He has directed software development, product design, operations and support for MAS at various times in the past 18 years. Baker earned an MBA at the University of Southern California, where he specialized in Entrepreneurship and Venture Management and performed Fellowship work in the area of Probability and Statistics. Baker is co-patentee of the concept with Malewicki and has made presentations on the software aspects of the invention to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) at their Future Transportation Conference and other technical groups.
Mr. Stobar is currently an Adjunct Professor at the prestigious Los Angeles Art Center — College of Design. Stobar is a third generation designer who emphasizes to his students that tooling and manufacturing costs are as important as innovative style and ergonomics. Stobar has been involved in numerous product innovations and several previous successful manufacturing ventures. To date, he has been indispensable in stimulating the thinking involved in both the lower cost SkyTran vehicles and the important low cost stations.
Brad T. Bowman — Computer Graphics, Multimedia, and Animation
Mr. Bowman is an award winning commercial artist who will be creating all of SkyTran, Inc.'s marketing visuals, future 3D animations, videos, brochures and Web based presentations. Brad uses and teaches the latest advanced 3D visualization software and has complete in-house video production hardware/software capability. Brad's computer art has been published on several CD-ROM's and he has also worked as a coordinator for major Computer Graphics Conferences.
