Stanley Kowalski III
Chairman of the Board

Education—BS in Mechanical Engineering

Summary of Experience—

Stanley Kowalski III is a serial entrepreneur and team builder. A graduate of Western New England College, he has a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Headquartered in Wilbraham, Ma., he is Chairman of the board for Flodesign, Inc., Flodesign Sonics, SK3 Real Estate, and serves on the Board and is Vice President of FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp.

Stan was the founding CEO of FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp. During this period, he led the team that won the ICE and CEEP competition totaling $300K and subsequently total investments of $50M in 18 months. He raised a $6M series A investment from KPCB and secured John Doerr and Bill Joy on the Board. He then raised a Series B investment totaling $35M from Goldman Sachs, Vantage Point Partners and Technology Partners. During his time as CEO, the team also won an $8.3M ARPA-E grant, and several SBIR’s.

Stanley also worked as an engineer on the Comanche suppressor system under Dr. Walter Presz which won UTC’s MEAD award for the most outstanding engineering achievement at United Technologies. Holder of 11 patents and 4 publications, he also is co-inventor with Dr. Presz on the RAP Nozzle system. The RAP system is a less than lethal weapon using advanced fluid dynamics for crowd control. The RAP system uses many of the same, advanced principles as the Wind Turbine. In 2008, Business West, a business journal in Western Massachusetts honored Stanley Kowalski III as one of the Top 40 under Forty leaders in the region. He serves as an advisor to the Western New England College School of Engineering and specifically. He is also a staunch supporter of Dean Kamens FIRST, supporting chapters in Wilbraham at both Wilbraham-Monson Academy and the public high school. Stanley possesses an insatiable entrepreneurial drive and is dedicated to making FloDesign a world class company.

However, he is most proud of the teams he’s assembled, comprising the word’s best scientists, engineers, and business leaders from around the world.

Education— BS in Robotics Engineering, MEd in Religious Studies

Summary of Experience—Art has over 35 years of experience in mechatronics, instrument design and business management. He was President & CEO of SFA, Inc. for 16 years where he managed all aspects of this instrument company serving the pharmaceutical industry. Art recently held the position of Program Director at Foster Miller, Inc where he managed a highly visible robotics automation project for a major pharmaceutical company. He has exceptional experience in project management, mechanical engineering, control’s design and software development.

Dr. Walter M. Presz, Jr.
Chief Technology Officer

Education—Ph.D. in Aeronautical Sciences

Summary of Experience—Dr. Walter Presz has over 40 years of engineering, product development, and academic experience and is licensed professional engineer in the state of Massachusetts. Dr. Presz worked for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft for twenty years, was in charge of Propulsion Installation Technology, and has consulted extensively with numerous companies over the last 25 years. He is co-founder of Stage III Technologies in California, and founder and currently CTO of  FloDesign. Inc. He is a recognized leader in the design and testing of ejectors, forced mixers, inlets, nozzles, suppressors, and jet engine propulsion components. Dr. Presz is Professor Emeritus and a member of the Engineering Hall of Fame at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dr. Presz  holds 26  U.S. patents, numerous other patent applications and awards, and has published 31 technical papers in his field of expertise.

Dr. Stanley Kowalski Jr.
Chief Financial Officer

Education—Ph.D. in Economics

Summary of Experience—He earned his Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, two Masters degrees from the University of Massachusetts, and a Bachelors degree from the University of Delaware. Before entering academe, he worked in the Executive Offices of Supermarkets General in New Jersey and New York .  At Western New England College , he taught Quantitative Methods and Computer Information Systems courses from 1973-1976, was Assistant to the President from 1976 to 1979, and became Dean of the School of Business in 1979. As dean he was responsible for all of the undergraduate and graduate full and part-time business programs totaling approximately 1300 students. The School of Business has 35 full-time faculty and approximately 20 adjunct faculty. Serving as Dean from 1979 to 2006, he was the longest serving Dean of a School in the world. In 2006 he retired to serve as CFO for FloDesign Inc.

 Dr. Michael J.Werle
Chief Scientist

Education—Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering

Summary of Experience—Dr. Werle is an inventor, an international management consultant, and past President of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. In 1995 he retired from 18 years service with United Technologies Corporation (UTC) as the Director for International and External Programs in the Office of Science & Technology. He also previously served as the Head of the Gas Dynamics and Thermophysics Laboratory in UTC’s Research Center. Prior to that he was a Professor of Engineering for 10 years on the faculties of the University of Cincinnati and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He started his career as a researcher in the US Naval Department Laboratories in Maryland. He has 12 patents, advised and graduated 14 PhDs, has published over 40 papers in refereed journals and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He currently serves as the Chief Scientist for FloDesign and has collaborated with Dr. Presz for over 20 years in aerospace research.

 Jeffrey P. King
Chief Operating Officer /                                             Director of Research & Development

Summary of Experience – Jeffrey P. King is an experienced aerospace design engineer with a background in many of the products FloDesign currently uses.  Mr. King has a BS in mechanical engineering from Western New England College.  While at WNEC he studied and worked under Dr. Walter Presz Jr.  He worked on several projects developing and applying mixer-ejector technology including preliminary model testing on the Stage III Technologies noise suppressor system used on the Gulfstream GIII Aircraft.  Upon graduation he worked 8 years for Stage III Technologies to bring the noise suppressor system from a concept through Supplemental Type Certification.  This unique opportunity provided him the knowledge and skills to develop aerospace technology from design, through the manufacturing and testing phases.  Most recently Jeffrey worked for Hamilton Sundstrand Air Management Systems as a development engineer providing a background in project management and team leadership.  He returned to FloDesign in 2008 under Stanley Kowalski and Dr. Presz and assumed the role of Director of Research and Development.