George Adamson Named VP of Product Development for Zinc Matrix Power

Zinc Matrix Power Inc. has appointed George Adamson, Ph.D. as the company's Vice President of Product Development.

"As we move into product test and evaluation in early 2007, Dr. Adamson will play a key role in helping us commercialize silver-zinc rechargeable battery technology, said Dr. Ross Dueber, President and CEO, Zinc Matrix Power. "Dr. Adamson brings a wealth of knowledge in process development and technology commercialization to our team. We couldn't be happier that he'll be leading product development efforts for Zinc Matrix Power at this critical time in our company's history."

Adamson was most recently the head of Virtic, LLC, a company providing contract engineering and scientific consulting. He was previously the Vice President of Research and Development at Valence Technology Corp., a firm developing and manufacturing lithium-ion polymer batteries. While at Valence Technology, Adamson managed a department of 26 scientists, engineers and technicians in the United States, as well as a site with 88 employees. He was responsible for setting the company's strategy for its intellectual property portfolio and launched the company's first three, mass-produced product lines. He was responsible for the fundamental material research involved with developing new technologies for batteries and ramping technologies to product launch. He held several positions within Valence Technology, including Vice President of Process Engineering and Development, as well as Director of Product Development.

Adamson was also the senior research scientist for Zinc Air Power Corp., a start-up company developing a commercial electric vehicle battery. In this position, Adamson directed an electrochemical research and catalyst testing program to develop a commercial bi-function air cathode. He instituted a new cathode testing program to improve manufacturing and testing controls, resulting in a 70% performance increase and 75% reduction in raw material cost per electrode.

Adamson is the holder of three U.S. Patents, with seven additional under application. He's been published extensively, in such journals as Journal Power Sources, Chemistry of Materials, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, Journal of Chemical Physics, and Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. Adamson received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in Cambridge, Massachusetts in Physical Chemistry and his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California in Riverside, California.