Richard Feldt CEO and Director

Rick Feldt has been CEO and Director of AEB since September 2010.  

Prior to joining AEB, Rick was Chairman, CEO, and President of Evergreen Solar since 2003 where he oversaw the company’s growth from $9.3M in revenue in 2003 to $271M in 2009.  Prior to joining Evergreen, he served as Chief Executive Officer at Perseid, a developer of optical phased array technology created by Raytheon. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer of SupplierMarket.com, which was sold to Ariba. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Operations at Symbol Technologies.  In addition, Rick has held senior positions at A.T. Cross Company, Eastman Kodak Company, and Spectra-Physics, Inc. Rick received a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Northeastern University. In 2005, he was named the Clean Tech Executive of the Year by Cleantech Venture Network LLC. He is a member of the Board of Directors of ICF International and is member of Northeastern University Dean of Engineering’s Advisory Council.

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Jeff Fagnan Director

Jeff Fagnan joined the Board of Directors of Advanced Electron Beams in October 2005. Jeff Fagnan is a Partner in the technology group at Atlas Venture, and focuses on very early stage projects in enterprise and Internet infrastructure. 

 Before joining Atlas Venture, Jeff was a Partner with Seed Capital Partners.  While at Seed Capital, Jeff was the lead and founding investor in several companies including DataPower (acquired by IBM) and Polychromix (acquired by ThermoFisher).  Before venture, Jeff worked for Booz Allen & Hamilton and Nortel Networks.

 Jeff currently serves on the Boards of Atlas portfolio companies AEB, Bit9, DataXu, Displaylink, Grockit, Keas, SimpleTuition, Songbird and Veracode.

 Jeff is a founder of TUGG (Technology Underwriting Greater Good), a non-profit foundation harnessing “Crowd-sourced Philanthropy” to catalyze social innovation in New England.  Jeff was also a founder of Koffee for Kids, a non-profit company in Rochester, New York.

 Jeff received his M.B.A. with distinction from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester and a B.S. from the University of Alaska.

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Jim Matheson Director

Jim became a board member at Advanced Electron Beams in August of 2009.

Jim Matheson joined Flagship Ventures in 2000 and focuses on creating and funding new ventures in the sustainability, clean technology and special technologies (e.g. nanotechnology, materials and technology systems) sectors. Jim earned an MBA from The Harvard Business School, a Bachelor of Science (with honors) from the United States Naval Academy and retired in 2008 as a Commander in the US Naval Reserves.

Jim has over 20 years of technology and leadership experience across a variety of organizations and roles designing, engineering and deploying sophisticated technology platforms. He formerly served as a Navy F-14 & FA-18 pilot including duties flying over 200 combat missions from an aircraft carrier, as a TOPGUN Instructor and leading the Navy’s Adversary Program. He also gained broad experience in emerging aircraft & weapons system design, testing and procurement, and was deeply involved in many of the military’s IT modernization initiatives.

Jim serves on the boards of Flagship portfolio companies Advanced Electron Beams, Black Duck Software, Frontier Energy, Mascoma Energy Corporation, Midori, Novomer and Oasys Water and is Chairman of the Board of Genstruct and Ze-gen. He was previously a director of e-Dialog (acquired by GSI Commerce), Yantra (acquired by Sterling Commerce / SBC) and Flamenco Networks (acquired by SOA Software). Jim has also spearheaded Flagship Venture’s role as the Department of Energy’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Jim is on the Board of New York-based hedge fund Black Horse Capital, the National Board of the Clean Tech Open, and the Center for Women & Enterprise, and is actively involved in numerous entrepreneurial and venture capital organizations including the Department of Energy's Biomass Technical Advisory Committee, CLF (Conservation Law Foundation) Ventures, New England Clean Energy Council & Clean Energy Center, the MIT Enterprise Forum, The Deshpande Center, and The Service Academy Business Network.

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