ALIO TEAM

Bill Hennessey, Founder & CEO

Bill has been an entrepreneur, mechanical engineer and marketing professional in the robotics, lasers and automation fields with nearly 30 years of experience.  He has professional experience in engineering, manufacturing and sales/marketing management positions at large international corporations and small companies.  Prior to founding ALIO in 2001, he co-founded Intrabay Automation, which designs and builds automation products for wafer cassettes, FOUP and reticle storage in the semiconductor market place.  Prior to that, Bill was one of the top sales and marketing professionals in the laser measurement and robotic automation fields with two different large international corporations (Cincinnati Milacron and Yaskawa Electric).  At Cincinnati Milacron’s Industrial Robot Division, he sold to Caterpillar, John Deer, GM, Ford, Chrysler and McDonnell Douglas advanced robotic systems. before being promoted to Director of Sales/Marketing for the Laser Measurement division, Chesapeake Laser Systems. At Yaskawa, he developed a new business segment in the semiconductor industry. Bill has a BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology and a minor in Business Administration from the University of Maine

Dan Crews, General Manager – Photonics and Medical

Dan has 19 years of hands-on design experience of sub-micron motion systems. Dan was a key design member of Dukane Corporation's Microrobotics Division, which produced the first commercially available sub-micron laser welding robotic systems targeting the fiber optic telecommunications industry.  Dan was the Engineering Manager and cofounder for Fiberoptic Alignment Solutions (FAS), a spin off of Dukane’s Microrobotics and subsidiary of GCA Fiberoptics, where he was responsible for all new product development and production tools.  FAS was acquired by JDS Uniphase where Dan developed several custom production lines for JDSU in Connecticut. Dan has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University

Nathan Brown, Engineering Manager

Prior to joining ALIO, Nathan was a mechanical engineer for Applied Materials’ Vacuum Robotics division, which designed, tested, and supported vacuum robotics systems across all Applied Materials product lines and product groups.  He had design engineering authority of the 200mm vacuum robot family and was a key engineer in multiple improvement projects that focused on new automation challenges.  Additionally, Nathan developed and executed comprehensive reliability, robustness, and failure analysis testing programs for multiple next generation robotics systems and vacuum bearings.  Nathan has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

updated: 03/01/2008