NoblePeak Vision (www.noblepeak.com) announced today that Mike
Decelle has joined the company as President and Chief Executive
Officer. Decelle takes the reins from co-founder Cliff King, bringing
25 years of experience to NoblePeak with demonstrated leadership
capabilities and success in both startup and large public companies.
King moves into the Chief Operating Officer role to focus on new
product development and manufacturing as NoblePeak rapidly approaches
market introduction of its TriWave(R) camera cores in 2008.
"The initial build of our TriWave(R) technology evaluation cameras
has sold out" said Cliff King cofounder and COO of NoblePeak." It is
critical that we now capitalize on this momentum by successfully
introducing our new products and bringing our VGA based camera cores
to production in 2008. The addition of Mike strengthens our team,
accelerating our early success and relationships with our major
security camera and military OEM lead customers."
Decelle brings a strong track record in both technology and
product development which began at Bell Laboratories. He has extensive
sales and business development experience in established large
companies such as Lucent Technologies where his responsibilities
included managing major accounts and lines of business worth more than
$2B. Over the last six years Decelle has served as President and CEO
for several optical technology start up companies and recently led the
successful sale of Apogee Photonics to CyOptics.
"Mike´s proven track record of both large and startup company
leadership made him the perfect fit for NoblePeak at a time when the
company is rapidly transitioning from an early-stage venture to a
scale business," said Stan Reiss member of the board at NoblePeak and
general partner at Matrix Partners. "Mike will be able to build on the
early success of the company to accelerate and ensure successful new
product introduction, manufacturing ramp, and revenue growth with
major customers in the security, defense, and consumer markets."
"I am thrilled to be joining NoblePeak Vision at such an exciting
and critical phase of the company´s development" said Mike Decelle,
NoblePeak´s new President and CEO. "NoblePeak´s TriWave(R) technology
has the potential to revolutionize the market for night vision
imaging, rendering costly legacy approaches obsolete. I´m looking
forward to working with Cliff King and the outstanding investor group
as we take NoblePeak into the next phase of its development. "
About NoblePeak Vision
NoblePeak Vision, recent winners of the 2007 Global Security
Challenge for the world´s most promising security technology start up
company, develops visible to SWIR video surveillance camera cores and
components with breakthrough night vision performance and costs. At
the heart of these components is TriWave(R), a revolutionary
germanium-enhanced monolithic CMOS image sensor technology.
NoblePeak´s unique integrated approach is manufactured in a standard
silicon process line, yielding never before achieved reliability and
economics. Founded in 2002, NoblePeak is a private company funded by
Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners. The company is
headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
