Fawad Maqbool, President and CEO (Founder) / CTO:
Mr. Maqbool has been in the microwave business for 25 years. He has a B.S.E.E. in microwave engineering and a B.S.E.E in Bio-Medical Engineering from CUNY and an M.S.E.E from Polytechnic University of New York. He founded AmpliTech in 2002 to fill the need for affordable, high quality, custom, state-of-the-art amplifiers and components. For almost 14 years as Department Head, he designed and developed state of the art amplifiers and components for MITEQ Inc., a leading supplier of microwave components and communications equipment. He then founded AmpliComm (acquired by Aeroflex, Inc. (ARXX) in 2000 to develop custom cryogenic and fiber optic amplifiers and components. Mr. Maqbool’s innovative management and design experience continues to push AmpliTech’s boundaries in microwave technology both in commercial and military markets. Mr. Maqbool has received various awards for innovative design and quality from suppliers such as Motorola, and publications such as Wireless Design and Technology magazine. AmpliTech continues to surpass it’s peers in performance, value, service, and innovation, and is poised to become the leading supplier of amplifiers and related components in the coming years.


Mark D. Goldsmith, C.O.O.
Mr. Goldsmith with more than thirty-five years of business experience, recently joined
The Company and has assumed the responsibilities of Chief Administrative Officer. He has served most recently as President and CEO of a public company, Coates International Ltd. and has served various public and private companies as Chief Officer and/or director. Mr. Goldsmith is a former Allied Member of the New York Stock Exchange, Associate Member of the American Stock Exchange and was a director for five years of the National Investment Bankers Association. Mr. Goldsmith was successful in building profitable national investment banking and brokerage businesses as CFO of Muller and Company, Inc., investment banking and syndicate manager of Stuart Coleman & Co., Inc. and president of Adolph Komorsky, Inc. member NASD.

 

Dan Mazziota, Technical / Business Advisor
Mr. Mazziota founded Microwave Power Devices, Inc. in 1967, which he sold in 1981 to M/A-COM, a leading telecommunications and defense electronics company. In addition, he is president of IDM Consulting which provides consulting services to the high tech M&A field, specializing in the microwave component and sub system industry. Mr. Mazziota is a former member of the Chief Executives Organization (CEO) and a senior member of the IEEE. He served on the Board of Directors of the Metro Chapter of the World President Organization (an YPO Alumni Organization) where he served as Chairman from 1996-1998. He received his BEE and MSEE degrees from New York Polytechnic Institute and is a fellow of the Institute.

 

Carol Ann Klemm, CFO and Human Resource Director
Ms. Klemm is the past Co-President, Treasurer, CFO, Trustee and Facility Security Officer (Secret Clearance) of National Hybrid Inc., Pace Technology Inc., Semicorp Inc. and Buonaterra Inc. and has over 30 years of experience in multiple disciplines. NHI was in the area of International Micro-electronic Hybrid Circuits, custom and standard product lines that included 1553 data bus, microwave amplifiers, solid state power controllers, opto-electronics and MEMS. Major companies included Northrop/Grumman, Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, Texas Instruments, Narda Microwave, Comtech/PST, Eltech, Smiths Industries, IBM, Honeywell, L3 Comm, BAE, and Hazeltine. This experience coupled with outside involvements brings a vast amount of experience to Amplitech Inc. Carol holds licenses of NYS Real Estate Broker, Notary Public, and FAA Rotocraft Rated Pilot. Past Chairperson of Lovell Safety Management, Plan Administrator of Profit Sharing Plans and 401K Plans, Program Coordinator of Federal EEO/AAP Program. Previously started the Business Education Program EOC for SUNY and attended Queens College. Past member of MacArthur Business Alliance Organization and currently a member of ADDAPT, Suffolk Community College.

 

Mick Maqbool, Director of IT / MIS
Mr. Maqbool has been in the IT industry for 21 years during which he has performed in all areas of the IT market; namely software development, hardware maintenance, administration, sales and support. He has a B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering with Computer Engineering specialization and is a Certified Netware Engineer as well as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Of late, he was President of IT consulting company Comtech Int‘l, Inc. for 8 years before which he was a partner in another IT consulting firm in NYC called Hitec Computers. Before this, he was an application developer for Carco Group, Inc. and performed these and other functions while serving as Assistant MIS Director at MITEQ, Inc. earlier. Mr. Maqbool has applied his varied experience and the instincts he‘s developed over the years to certain projects such as hosting a live internet radio show, writing technical articles for professional publications as well as maintaining a blog on three different professional websites. Having been at every level of the IT ‘chain‘ and having performed well at each level, Mr. Maqbool knows all about old and new technologies, what decisions to make regarding IT trends and the experience and know-how to solve any problems that surface during the implementation of such technologies.