The Koolbridge Management Team
The team consists of exceptional technology business builders, and leaders who combined have over 300-years of successful business knowledge managing a broad variety of high-tech and consumer products, and companies.
J. Stephen Burnett, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board
Stephen contributes his knowledge of the Company and a deep understanding of all aspects of our business, products and markets, especially as it relates to prototype development, contract negotiation, intellectual property and licensing.
William “Bill” Griffin, President and CEO
Bill leads all strategic alliance initiatives, develops sales channels and executes the business plan.< His background includes senior level positions at many start-ups and turnaround companies in energy, computers, control devices, electronics, and telecommunications.
J. Phillips L. Johnston, J.D., Co-Founder, Vice Chairman, Chief Legal Officer & Director
Phil is a member of the North Carolina Bar, was Founding Chairman of the North Carolina Technology Association and was named Entrepreneur of the Year by The Center for Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Paul Dent, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Dr. Dent’s specialties includes electronics, particularly RF circuits, digital signal processing algorithms, system design, missiles, satellite, hardware design, systems design, navigation instruments, cellphones, cellular systems, military radio, crypto, solar energy, and high efficiency pure sinewave converters. He is the #1 patent inventor in wireless with 385+ U.S. and over 1,000 International patents in his name.
Robert “Bob” Gosselin, VP of Marketing
Bob has over 50+-years of global, strategic communications experience with aerospace, banking, business-to-business, communications, energy, consumer, credit card, education, healthcare, public sector, security, telco, and transportation companies.
Ken Gilbert, CTO
Ken is a Licensed Professional Engineer, Certified Project Management Professional, and has held roles as Project Manager PMP, Business Development, Team Lead, Electrical Design, Technical Sales, and electrical design consultant.
Robert “Bob” Belts, CFO
Bob has significant experience in automotive and renewable energy industries. He served as Chief Financial Officer from start-ups to companies with over $1B in revenue. Bob’s experience includes General Motors, Detroit Diesel Internet Corporation, and Sterling Energy Systems.
Ed Green, Intellectual Property Consultant
Ed has engineering affiliations with IBM, Sun Microsystems, Lockheed and Geerhart Industries. Experience in designing many technologies including microprocessors, video compression boards. He is involved in securing and defending IP rights.
Previous Roles: Associate at Intellectual Property Technology Law Firm, Engineer at IBM and Sun Microsystems