KEY EMPLOYEES

Sean Reineke has served as Sceptor's President and Chief Executive Officer since April 2006. Under Sean's leadership, Sceptor will be a leading systems solution provider in aerosol collection and detection. In his previous position as Vice President with Integrated Border Security Solutions, Sean had extensive experience in government related systems solutions. During his tenure with Lockheed Martin, Sean held the positions of VP, Strategic Planning and Execution for the Transportation and Security Solutions division, VP, Programs and Technology, and VP, Postal Programs. Sean has a bachelor's degree in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master's in computer engineering from Syracuse University.

With over 25 years of product development and senior management experience in the chemical and biological detection markets serving the military and homeland security needs, Mr. Thomas developed and executed new program and product plans and met or exceeded commercial goals in each instance.  Previously, Mr. Thomas served at VP of Government Programs for Sceptor Industries where he was responsible for business development including identification of new markets and applications for the aerosol sampler product line.  Mr. Thomas also assisted with Sceptor’s organizational growth from a supplier of bioaerosol sampling subsystems to a provider of integrated biosecurity detection systems.  He is the former President of Environmental Technology Group and Smiths Detection-Edgewood where he managed over 100 employees and an operating budget in excess of $25 million and where he increased Smiths Detections revenue by three-fold in four years.  Mr. Thomas recently served as senior executive at Innovative Biosensors, Inc., a venture-backed organization, leading their successful product entry into the biodefense market.  Mr. Thomas has served on several industry committees and recently co-chaired the Chemical Bio Defense Acquisition Initiatives Forum for the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical Bio Defense. 

Erika spent 5 years in the non-profit sector in education and healthcare.  In both cases she was heavily involved in operations, program development, and fundraising.
In 1996 Erika was recruited by AVAX Technologies to build infrastructure and manage operations of the biotechnology company that would eventually have 3 locations in the U.S., 1 in France, and 1 in Australia.

She left AVAX in early 2001 to pursue consulting work, which eventually led to the opportunity to form Sceptor Industries, Inc. in late 2001.  A founding executive of Sceptor, Erika's role is Chief Administration Officer in charge of corporate administrative operations.

As Director of Research and Development for Sceptor Industries, Freeman directs or performs all engineering work related to new products at Sceptor, encompassing stages in the product design cycle from concept development and generation through production manufacturing.  These products include devices for aerosol sampling, air purification, and sample purification, as well as products for the testing and evaluation of aerosol equipment and simulation of biological agents.  In addition, he manages technical support and maintenance needs for existing Sceptor products.

Prior to coming to Sceptor, Freeman worked for Midwest Research Institute (MRI), where he was MRI's Biosampler Focus Area Leader, leading their biosampler design, evaluation, and research.  During this time, he functioned through a contract relationship with Sceptor Industries on all projects related to the SpinCon air sampler and BioSim™ product.  Freeman has also held positions with both Pratt and Whitney in Connecticut and Cincinnati Milacron in Ohio where he performed turbine engine component testing, high speed machining center vibration analysis and troubleshooting, Finite Element Analysis, and plastic injection product acoustic testing. 

Freeman specializes in systems design and testing.  He has a vast amount of expertise in development, integration, and testing of numerous air sampling systems and biodetection systems.  In addition, he has extensive expertise in managing a wide range of contract research and development programs in areas such as life sciences and engineering.  He is currently the technical lead for Sceptor in the integration of SpinCon systems with automated Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)  Bio-detection hardware.  This effort includes full customization of the SpinCon sampler, integration of the sampler with the PCR system via robotic automation, and field testing and validation of the system using biological surrogates and inert monodisperse particles.  He is an expert in a variety of solid modeling packages, design methodologies, product development methods, and programming languages.

He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA with a focus on Operations Management from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.  He has received numerous corporate and university awards for excellence.