Mr. Samuels is Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer of SpectRx, Inc. Mr. Samuels has degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds 11 granted patents in medical and commercial applications of electro-optics and has founded two successful companies. After spending several years in the defense industry developing electro-optic sensors, Mr. Samuels founded Laser Atlanta Optics, Inc. In 1992, he co-founded SpectRx, capitalized the Company in early 1993 and in 1997 took SpectRx public. In addition to his corporate duties, Mr. Samuels founded the Atlanta Chapter of the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society and was Vice-Chairman of the Georgia BioMedical Partnership. |