Matthias Wagner
CEO, Co-Founder
mwagner@redshiftsystems.com

Matthias established the technical and business vision that drives RedShift Systems today, and led its spin-off from Aegis Semiconductor, where the Active Thin Films technology platform was successfully developed and proven.  Matthias was the founder of Aegis Semiconductor, where he was CEO from 2000-2005.  Matthias holds a BS Engineering/Physics from Harvard and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School.  He was recently selected as one of the top 40 Greater Boston’s best and brightest business people under 40 years old, as featured in the Boston Business Journal, and named a finalist for Ernst & Young’s New England Entrepreneur of the Year Award.  

Chip Marshall
Chief Operating Officer
cmarshall@redshiftsystems.com

Chip is an expert in commercializing and launching technology intensive products into volume production.  Prior to joining RedShift, Chip served as COO at Aura Communications, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company developing wireless system-on-chip ASICs.  Before Aura, Chip served as Director of Uncooled Infrared Products at Lockheed Martin Imaging Systems, now a division of BAE Systems, where he directed the company’s uncooled infrared business area.  He established and led the engineering team that designed and introduced the microbolometer-based product line that set the industry standard for technical innovation and performance.  Chip received a BA in Physics from Amherst College, a MS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, and he earned an MBA from Northeastern University's High Technology MBA Program.

Eugene Ma, Ph.D
Chief Technology Officer
Co-Founder 

ema@redshiftsystems.com

Eugene leads the development planning, technology refinement, and product prototyping for the company.  Prior to RedShift, Dr. Ma was a co-founder and the CTO at Aegis Semiconductor, where he drove the developments that pushed Active Thin Films technology from initial concepts to telecom-qualified commercial production.  Prior to Aegis, Eugene spent several years as a consultant in the Advanced Technology Group at Andersen Consulting. Eugene holds a Ph.D. and an MA in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University where he developed advanced thin film semiconductor devices and processes for low-cost, flexible flat panel displays.  He holds a BSEE from Yale University and completed the General Business Studies program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dan Ostrower
VP, Product Management

dostrower@redshiftsystems.com  

Dan is responsible for the product strategy and successful market introduction of the Thermal Light Valve and OpTIC product lines.  Dan was previously Director of Automotive Imaging at SMaL Camera Technologies/Cypress Semiconductor in Cambridge, MA, where he led an imaging business serving leading automotive manufacturers and suppliers.  Dan has more than 10 years experience at some of the world’s most well-respected strategy and product development organizations.  This includes strategy consulting and project leadership responsibilities at the Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting organization, and at IDEO Product Development in the business strategies group.  Dan earned his BA in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University and an MBA and an MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University.   

Jennifer Richardson
VP, Engineering

jrichardson@redshiftsystems.com

Jennifer manages the technical teams that are developing the Thermal Light Valve and OpTIC product lines.  Her twenty years of technology management experience will be crucial as we move to mass production of our optical thermal imaging camera engines.  Jennifer was most recently VP of Engineering at Optical Alchemy Inc. and DiOP (now Axsys Technologies) where she led teams to produce infrared sensors for ground, marine and airborne applications.  She has an extensive background in thermal camera and electro-optical systems development.  Previous employers included Lockheed Martin IR Imaging Systems (now BAE) and Inframetrics (now FLIR Systems).   Jennifer earned her BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Lafayette College and has completed coursework at the MIT  - Sloan School of Management.