About the company

Management Team

Jag Sisodia - President & CEO

Over 25 years of global business experience, including general management, mergers and acquisitions, and finance & accounting. Previous positions with Intertek Testing, MCI Telecom, public accounting. Jag is a significant shareholder.

B.S. (BA) & MBA, American University - Washington, D.C.

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Rajesh Nair - CTO & Founder

As an inventor and entrepreneur, Rajesh contributes technical leadership to the company in defining business opportunities, developing technologies, and new business models. He has developed several products that are considered firsts in the industry and used all over the world as standard in the thermal and sensing industry. Rajesh was a co-founder of DegreeControls in 1997 and remains the largest single shareholder.

B.S. (Physics), Kerala University; B.S. (EE) and M.S. (Electronics Product Design), Indian Institute of Science; M.S. (Manufacturing Engineering), University of Massachusetts (Amherst).

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Eric Birch - Executive VP

Over 35 years of global business experience, including general management, technology development, marketing, operations, and quality. Previous positions with GlobalLIFT Technologies, Intertek Testing, Nashua Corporation, Corning. Eric is a significant shareholder in DegreeControls. B.A. (Chemistry), Harvard; M.B.A. Harvard Business School.

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Earl Pike - VP Finance & CFO

40+ years of financial management and engineering experience in business models ranging from direct selling to manufacturing. Previously, Earl held management positions with Inacom Information Systems, Envion International and Franki Foundation Company.

B.S. & M.S. (Chemical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.B.A., Boston University.

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William (Bill) Langille - Vice President of Operations

Bill brings a unique skill set of engineering, manufacturing, and general management expertise to DegreeC. Bill came to Degreec from iCAD, Inc. where he was a corporate Vice President and the President of the medical imaging division. Prior to that Bill worked as a project manager at Nashua Corporation where he led teams of engineers, technicians, designers and machinists on multi-million dollar projects Bill also specializes in Statistical Process Control and received his training directly from Dr. W. Edward Deming.

ME, (Mechanical Engineering) University of Massachusetts and registered/certified plant engineer. Bill also holds many patents to his name.

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Phil Daniels - Vice President

Airflow and Thermal Products In 1999, Phil joined Degree Controls during our start-up stage as a Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager to support the Fan Tray and and Controller division. Ultimately, he became responsible for new business development for the division, and application expert. Using both his Engineering and Sales expertise, he has overall product line responsibility for the Sensor & Instrument, as well as the Fan Tray and Controller divisions of Degree Controls. Prior to Degree Controls, Phil worked in engineering and thermal design at Nortel Networks and Husky Injection Molding Systems.

B.Eng (Civil Eng. & Applied Mechanics; Minor: Environmental Eng.) McGill Univ.

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