About the Founders
Bradley Boyer, President and Chief Executive Officer
Bradley Boyer, a 23 year veteran of the analytical instrument industry, recently joined Inxitu as its President/CEO. Prior to joining Inxitu, Mr. Boyer held several positions during a 17 year career with Oxford Instruments, most recently as President of their Industrial Analysis division. Beginning as a XRF applications scientist with Applied Research Laboratories in 1985, Mr. Boyer has spent his career working with analytical instrument products, spanning both research and quality control applications. On joining Inxitu, Mr. Boyer remarked "I am very excited to join the Inxitu team. The advanced technology behind the Inxitu products provides a new level of benefit for the X-ray Diffraction customer, and I look forward to being a part of this step change in our industry."
Mr. Boyer has a Bsc in Chemistry/Physiology and attended the University of Michigan School of Business, MBA. Mr. Boyer also has published a number of articles in the field of wavelength dispersive XRF and holds a patent on a portable XRF spectrometer (6,459,767).
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.