About the Founders
Scott Snyder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Scott Snyder joined inXitu, Inc. in February of 2007 to expand the existing development activities and oversee the strategic introduction of new products. Prior to joining inXitu, Mr. Snyder served as Executive Vice-President and Site Manager of Oxford Instruments, X-ray Technology in Scotts Valley, CA. During his 11 years at Oxford Instruments, he oversaw the expansion of the company and led research and development activities. This included development of the Horizon hand-held XRF spectrometer, the Ultra-bright Microfocus and Eclipse x-ray sources.
In 1991, after spending several years in various engineering roles developing microwave amplifiers at Teledyne MEC, Star Microwave and M-Square Microtek, Mr. Snyder started his own consulting services business. As a consultant he designed electron optics for novel vacuum devices including flat CRTs and high-power x-ray sources for medical CT scanners.
Mr. Snyder holds degrees in Mathematics and Physics from the California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA.
Philippe Sarrazin PhD, Chief Technology Officer
Philippe Sarrazin is in charge of new technology development at inXitu Inc. He studied Materials Sciences and Mechanical Engineering in France. During the decade following his doctorate, he worked as research scientist in several academic and government laboratories, developing new technologies with a particular interest in X-ray instrumentation. He played a key role in the development of the NASA XRD/XRF planetary instrument and remains involved in the program today as a member of the MSL (Mars 2009) XRD instrument Science team.
In 2004, Dr. Sarrazin founded one of the companies which now make up inXitu, Inc. He managed the company, pursued his research on XRD equipment for space exploration under a number of government research grants, and prepared the introduction of these technologies to the market. Dr. Sarrazin now supervises the Research and Development at inXitu, Inc. and plays a lead role in a number of research programs for innovative instrumentation in X-ray analysis.
Robert J. Espinosa, Chairman of the Board
Robert Espinosa has been developing vacuum electron devices for over 40 years. He has led product development groups at Varian Associates, Watkins- Johnson, Raytheon and Northrop. In 1984 he founded Star Microwave for the purpose of developing and manufacturing microwave tubes for military and commercial systems. Subsequent to the sale of Star he held positions as Vice President and Operations Manager at M Square Microtek and Microwave Laboratories.
In 1994 he founded Microwave Power Technology to develop novel vacuum electron devices by forming alliances with companies that would manufacture and market the products. MPT has been successful in bring carbon nanotube cathode technology from the laboratory to production of products for the commercial market in cooperation with Oxford Instruments. In alliance with Teledyne MEC and Valence Corporation, MPT has developed an electron beam source that is currently being used for environmental remediation of contaminated ground. Other MPT successful products include a vacuum gauge, microwave amplifier modulators and test equipment. Both commercial funding and government grants, which were secured by Mr. Espinosa, enabled development of these products.
Mr. Espinosa will continue as the Principal Investigator on currently funded development contracts and as an advisor to inXitu. His activities will include developing concepts and securing development funds for new products.
Carmen Cerrelli, Chief Financial Officer