Frank Gerlando, President  / Co-Founder

Frank Gerlando is the President and co-founder of eGen LLC. He has over 30 years of business management and executive leadership experience in the specialty chemicals, electronics, energy and metals industries.  Mr. Gerlando has significant experience in market development, strategic planning, M&A, and developing strategic alliances. His functional expertise ranges broadly from sales and marketing management to technical and manufacturing management.  Prior to eGen, Frank held senior leadership positions at Engelhard,  Allied Corporation, AT&T/Bell Labs and Wolverine.

Joel Douglas, CTO / Co-Founder

Joel Douglas is the CTO and co-founder of eGen LLC.   Joel holds 76 U.S. patents, 29 FDA product clearances, numerous foreign patents, and has founded or co-founded four start-ups. Prior to eGen, Joel co-founded MysticMd a material and technology development company specializing in Carbon nanotubes conductive coatings and inks.  In 2004, he was named one of the 100 Notable People in the Medical Device Industry by Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry magazine (MD&DI).

eGen Team

Technical Advisory Board

Ross Bagtzoglou – Associate Professor,

Dept. Chairman UCONN Civil Engineering

Professor Bagtzoglou is an Associate Professor of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering. Before joining academia he has held research and development positions first as a post-doctoral associate (1990-91) at the University of California under funding from the US Department of Energy (US DOE), and then as a research engineer (1991-1993) and senior research engineer (1993-96) at the Southwest Research Institute under funding from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US NRC). Prior to joining UConn, he has also served as Assistant Professor of Water Resources and Geoenvironmental Engineering at Columbia University (1997-2002). He has held Associate Editor positions for the journals Groundwater (1994-1997) and Water Resources Research (1999-2004) and currently serves as Editor for the Journal of Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Advances in Remediation Technology (2004-) and as Associate Editor for Ground Water Hydrology for the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (2003-). He is also member of the editorial board for the journal of Environmental Forensics. He is a member of several national and international professional organizations, the AGU Hydrology Section Groundwater Technical Committee, the ASCE Groundwater Hydrology Committee, the IAEG Commission 14 (Underground Disposal of Waste), the DOE Subject Expert Panel, and the Long Island Sound Study Science and Technical Advisory Committee.

Malcolm L. Spaulding, Professor of Ocean Engineering URI

Dr. Spaulding is an internationally recognized expert in marine environmental modeling, with a primary focus in the areas of hydrodynamics, pollutant transport and fate, oil spill transport and fate, and the development of integrated modeling and monitoring systems. He has led the development of several widely used oil spill transport and fate and hydrodynamic and water quality models. He has published extensively in the field of marine environmental modeling.

In the last decade, Dr. Spaulding has served on numerous National Research Council (NRC) committees and panels, including those to review oil pollution research and development, to evaluate marine environmental studies programs, to assess ocean technology transfer, and to evaluate cleanup and response to spills of heavy oils. Dr. Spaulding was a member of NRC's Marine Board and liaison to the Ocean Studies Board from 1996 to 2001. He chaired the committee on the Marine Transportation of Heavy Oils in 1999. In 2001 he received a certificate of appreciation for outstanding service as a member of the NRC, Transportation Research Board (TRB), Marine Board, 1996-2001. He recently (2002) served on the NRC, Marine Board committee on Naval Engineering: Alternative Approaches for Organizing Cooperative Research.