Dirk van der Vaart
CEO
Dirk is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aether LLC with more than 25 years of experience in the defense and security industry, and has served in operations and business development roles throughout his career, including overseas projects in more than 22 countries. He has an MBA in International Business.
Don Stasiowski
COO
Don is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Aether LLC with 30+ years of experience in the Fire Service culminating in appointment as Deputy Fire Chief. AS Degree in Fire Science, California Fire Officer Certification, and multiple state, regional and federal certs. He has founded and co-founded startups in incident and emergency management vertical.
Shaman Ajmani
CFO
Shaman is Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Aether LLC with 20+ years of global supply chain experience. His previous ventures helped multiple Fortune 500 companies acquire and distribute electronics, software, and media. His focus is primarily on products and services related to Smart Cities, Public Safety, and Building Automation technologies. He has an MBA and a Master’s in Innovation.
Bradley Bray
CSO
Bradley Bray is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Aether LLC with over ten years of experience managing chemical research and development (R&D) projects and scientists throughout his career. He has overseen numerous product development initiatives from inception through commercialization, including designing new processes to ensure novel technologies’ successful creation and implementation. Mr. Bray has a Master’s in Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship and a B.Sc. in Biochemistry with a Minor in Chemistry.
Dr. Kevin Major
Technical Advisor
Dr. Major has a Ph.D. in Nanoscale Science and is an innovative thinker with multiple accepted and filed patents. He is a co-inventor of the biomimetic methodology underlying Aether’s Visionary Sensing™ products. He has several published works describing that approach, with computational proof, and specific experiments completed to showcase the solution’s novelty, including those successfully detecting RDX and classifying multiple chemicals simultaneously using the novel CIE-IR chart.
Jonathan Fenner
Technical Advisor
Jon Fenner is a seasoned software engineer with a passion for building robust and scalable web applications. With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, Jon has honed his skills in front-end and back-end development, mastering languages such as JavaScript, Python, and Ruby on Rails. His expertise extends to cloud platforms and DevOps practices, ensuring seamless deployment and maintenance of his projects.
Dirk van der Vaart
CEO
Dirk is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aether LLC with more than 25 years of experience in the defense and security industry, and has served in operations and business development roles throughout his career, including overseas projects in more than 22 countries. He has an MBA in International Business.
Don Stasiowski
COO
Don is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Aether LLC with 30+ years of experience in the Fire Service culminating in appointment as Deputy Fire Chief. AS Degree in Fire Science, California Fire Officer Certification, and multiple state, regional and federal certs. He has founded and co-founded startups in incident and emergency management vertical.
Shaman Ajmani
CFO
Shaman is Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Aether LLC with 20+ years of global supply chain experience. His previous ventures helped multiple Fortune 500 companies acquire and distribute electronics, software, and media. His focus is primarily on products and services related to Smart Cities, Public Safety, and Building Automation technologies. He has an MBA and a Master’s in Innovation.
Bradley Bray
CSO
Bradley Bray is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Aether LLC with over ten years of experience managing chemical research and development (R&D) projects and scientists throughout his career. He has overseen numerous product development initiatives from inception through commercialization, including designing new processes to ensure novel technologies’ successful creation and implementation. Mr. Bray has a Master’s in Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship and a B.Sc. in Biochemistry with a Minor in Chemistry.
Dr. Kevin Major
Technical Advisor
Dr. Major has a Ph.D. in Nanoscale Science and is an innovative thinker with multiple accepted and filed patents. He is a co-inventor of the biomimetic methodology underlying Aether’s Visionary Sensing™ products. He has several published works describing that approach, with computational proof, and specific experiments completed to showcase the solution’s novelty, including those successfully detecting RDX and classifying multiple chemicals simultaneously using the novel CIE-IR chart.
Jonathan Fenner
Technical Advisor
Jon Fenner is a seasoned software engineer with a passion for building robust and scalable web applications. With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, Jon has honed his skills in front-end and back-end development, mastering languages such as JavaScript, Python, and Ruby on Rails. His expertise extends to cloud platforms and DevOps practices, ensuring seamless deployment and maintenance of his projects.