THE TEAM

Tyler Craig is a former Lockheed Martin Skunk Works engineer turned technology executive.

Tyler has a 30-year track record of distinguished achievements as both an advanced technology innovator and as an executive successfully building and growing technology businesses. 

Tyler also had the privilege of serving on the Aerospace Industries 

Tyler Craig is a former Lockheed Martin Skunk Works engineer turned technology executive.

Tyler has a 30-year track record of distinguished achievements as both an advanced technology innovator and as an executive successfully building and growing technology businesses. 

Tyler also had the privilege of serving on the Aerospace Industries Association Board of Governors working with other industry executives to help set US Aerospace policy.

Tyler holds a MS in Mgmt. of Technology from Georgia Tech and a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from Auburn University.

David Blivin is Founder and Managing Director of Cottonwood Technology Funds, a founding and seed stage investor in IP-based companies with industry disruptive potential.
 

David serves or has served on numerous boards of directors including Skorpios, xF Technologies, Exagen, Respira, Bayotech, Infinitum Electric, Sarcos , The Pantry, O

David Blivin is Founder and Managing Director of Cottonwood Technology Funds, a founding and seed stage investor in IP-based companies with industry disruptive potential.
 

David serves or has served on numerous boards of directors including Skorpios, xF Technologies, Exagen, Respira, Bayotech, Infinitum Electric, Sarcos , The Pantry, Opensite, Accipiter, and Channelogics . 

Prior to Cottonwood, David founded and served as Managing Director of Southeast Interactive; the largest information technology-focused fund based in the Southeast at that time.

David holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Rich Glover is currently the Managing Partner for Consilium-X, a veteran-owned, small business that provides strategic planning support, technology assessment, and guidance to improve operational & logistic efficiency. 

Rich is a cofounder of ACME Advanced Materials (A2M) which later became LatticeX.  He is actively engaged with the curr

Rich Glover is currently the Managing Partner for Consilium-X, a veteran-owned, small business that provides strategic planning support, technology assessment, and guidance to improve operational & logistic efficiency. 

Rich is a cofounder of ACME Advanced Materials (A2M) which later became LatticeX.  He is actively engaged with the current LatticeXactivities focused on leveraging partnerships with leading industrial corporations.

Rich retired from the USAF in 1998 and has worked for a number of both large and small aerospace contractors serving as Chief Engineer and Division Vice President.

Rich holds a Bachelor’s & Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Texas.

Todd Christenson is a developer of devices and processes for the microsystem industry, and a passionate evangelist of emerging technology commercialization.  For 30 years, he has been inventing microfabrication solutions and applying them to new types of portable electronic systems for medical, industrial, and defense/aerospace use.   He 

Todd Christenson is a developer of devices and processes for the microsystem industry, and a passionate evangelist of emerging technology commercialization.  For 30 years, he has been inventing microfabrication solutions and applying them to new types of portable electronic systems for medical, industrial, and defense/aerospace use.   He is Chairman-Emeritus and CTO of HT MicroAnalytical, Inc., a company he co-founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 2003, which designs and manufactures metal-based MEMS.  Previously, he was on staff at Sandia National Laboratories working in the components and advanced semiconductor groups.  He received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1995, where he worked on semiconductor devices and integrated sensors at the Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics.   He authored several book chapters on MEMS and microactuators, 150 research publications, and has been issued 45 US patents related to the areas of microfabrication and microsensors.