Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 22, 2000
ALEXANDER M. ADELSON is the CEO, President, and Vice Chairman of
Antaeu*. He is a technocrat with over 35 years of experience as a
Professional Manager, Businessman, and Applied Physicist. Experience and
interests covering a diverse range of high technology fields including
both economic and technical endeavors. His career began at Razdow
Laboratories, a NASA think tank. In 1966 he formed his own company, W.
R. Corporation, where he fathered monolithic switch technology which is
widely used today. Since 1974, Mr. Adelson has led the Technology
Resource Group of RTS Research Lab, Inc. (RTS). This group provides
management, product development, and related marketing services to
various clients with specialization in technical marketing matters. Mr.
Adelson, as a secondary co-founder, and RTS, helped conceive and develop
the first portable bar code scanner and acted as Chief Technical
Consultant and Program Manager for 12 years for Symbol Technologies,
Inc. (NYSE: SBL ' www.symbol.com) while developing two generations of
portable bar code scanners. Mr. Adelson holds over 70 patents and
trademarks in the fields of optical electronics, bar code technology,
automatic inspection, supply chain, and medical software. He was honored
by Symbol with the presentation of the LS7000 Silver Gun award. Mr.
Adelson, in the early 1990s, was the architect for the conversion of
Base Ten Systems, Inc. (www.base10.com) from a defense company into a
commercial software firm serving a new market in the pharmaceutical
world, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). The company was chosen by
the Gartner Group as best of breed for their software products. Mr.
Adelson was responsible for raising $44 million in equity financing and
hiring new management for commercially restructuring the company. The
firm enjoys an exceptional blue chip clientele in its field. Also in the
early 1990s he was the co-founder of Patcomm Corporation, a company
dedicated to high frequency radio products for amateur radio, commercial
communications, and short wave receivers. Currently Patcomm is becoming
a significant player in the EU market for amateur radio. Mr. Adelson was
one of the guiding forces behind the successful Empire One
Telecommunications, Inc. (EOT). It is a full-service telephone company
providing ethnic communities with first language services from the US
throughout the world, including China, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, Ireland,
Pakistan and Mexico. Mr. Adelson is a recipient of a Special
Congressional Recognition Award for his work as a successful
entrepreneur sand demonstrated Business Acumen. He was recently honored
as Entrepreneur of the Year by his alma mater, Muhlenberg College, and
is a Trustee of that institution. He was awarded a Gold Medal for work
done for HBO by the National Retailers of America. He also serves on the
Board of Directors of Empire One Telecommunications, Inc. (www.eot.net),
Patcomm Corporation (www.qth.com/patcommradio) and ACTIVEWORLDS.COM,
Inc. (www.activeworlds.com). Profile
Antaeu* (pronounced an-ty-us), and how that fits in with MATECH, and
then discuss your role and position in those companies
