The Tracera Team

Business Team:

Mr. James (Jim) Hannah - BA, M. Div., Th. M, CNPR is Interim CEO for Tracera. Jim has over 32 years experience in product and project management, sales and administration in several profit and nonprofit areas. He has prototype development experience in manufacturing and commercial construction sectors serving in roles from R & D Coordinator to Director of Development and Vice President of Field Services. He also developed a new pharmaceutical territory for a 3M Medical Products company. He is a current member of the National Association of Pharmaceutical Representatives. His undergraduate degree in Zoology is from Indiana University with minors in Chemistry and Physics.

Mr. Collin McKinney - BSEE, is Vice-President and co-founder of Tracera. Collin is an electronics design engineer with 25+ years experience in development of radioactivity monitoring devices, cyclotron target systems, radiochemistry systems, and analytical chemistry instrumentation. Collin has developed new solid-state radiation detector technology, automation devices, and computer control algorithms that are enabling technologies for Tracera. He has held engineering and engineering management positions at Texas Instruments, Inc., Duke University Medical Center, the University of North Carolina, and was previously Vice President of Engineering at Biosystems Technologies, Inc. He serves on the board of directors of Threshold Corporation, Petaluma, CA.

Mr. Mathews Abraham - B.Sc. Eng., M.B.A., C.Q.M. Mathews obtained his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Regional Engineering College in Kurkshetra, India, and later a Masters in Business Administration from Indiana University in South Bend, IN. Mathews also got his Certified Quality Manager in 1996. He has lead three start-up ventures in India (software, steel fabrication and fitness & health). He worked eight years in management and manufacturing in Crown International, Elkhart IN. He was lately working with a French automotive electronics company and with a tooling engineering firm for two years prior to that. Statistics, process improvement and emerging global trends are his different areas of interest, as well as being a published author.

Scientific Team:

Dr. Robert Musser – Ph.D., is a Product Scientist with Tracera, LLC. He has contributed to the design of Tracera FBM, FCH and TS-1 synthesis modules, as well as other equipment under development by Tracera. He is the Principal Investigator of the NIH SBIR contract awarded to Tracera for the development of the TS-1 module. He has over 30 years experience in the design and construction of research equipment both in the academic and private sectors. He has been a Principal Investigator of prior SBIR grants and has 11 peer-reviewed publications involving research equipment and techniques, including systems involving short-lived radioisotope tracers.