The career of Dr. James Ionson, who was the lead scientist behind the creation of President Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” program, has centered on the convergence of security and imaging technologies.

During the past 30+ years, Dr. Ionson has led a number of early-stage businesses in image-related industries, has published more than 50 papers in professional journals and has authored a number of patents for digital-imaging inventions.

A former senior officer at Polaroid Corp., for which in the early 1990s he was in charge of developing its digital imaging business, Dr. Ionson was most recently a consultant for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Battelle Ventures, a $220-million national venture-capital fund.

Dr. Ionson was a member of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Senior Executive Service, appointed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in 1984, and was credited with the creation of the Innovative Science and Technology Directorate for President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), now called the Missile Defense Agency. He has held top-secret and other national security clearances with the Defense Intelligence Agency and has advised the Pentagon and NASA on critical technology issues.

In 1983 he was named outstanding scientist of the year by the Maryland Academy of Sciences. He also has been honored by the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, the DOD, NASA and the Federal Office of Personnel Management.

From August 2006-October 2007 Dr. Ionson was CEO of video-technology company RemoteReality. He also has been CEO of Plasmion Corp.; was president of ColorVision, Inc.; was founder and CEO of PhotoTronics Corporation (now EZPrints); and was COO of Karl Storz Endovision.

Dr. Ionson was awarded a Ph.D. in theoretical plasma astrophysics from the University of Maryland in 1977 and was adjunct professor of physics there from 1978-1985. He earned from the University of Michigan master degrees in aerospace engineering and physics, in 1975 and 1973, respectively; and bachelor degrees in math, physics and astronomy in 1972.

Richard Pineau has a successful track record managing product development and delivering complex software and hardware solutions. His diversified background runs the gamut from wireless communication, Internet and image processing technologies to consumer software and device applications, as well as to client server systems and technology platform products.

Just prior to joining Oncam Global, Mr. Pineau served for four years as senior manager, engineering, Integrated Defense Systems, at Raytheon Company, where he was responsible for system integration program management for the defense contractor’s DD(X)-destroyer project for the U.S. Navy. The project for a next-generation surface combatant ship consisted of building and testing a dual frequency radar suite, an integrated, solid-state communication system, an integrated antisubmarine and mine-warfare system, a revolutionary missile vertical launching system, and a multi-mission total-system computing environment. Mr. Pineau was responsible for program integration and control management for the systems integration and test and software development of the ship controls system portion of the project.

Before Raytheon, Mr. Pineau spent more than a dozen years at Polaroid, during the corporation’s transition to digital imaging. There, as division vice president for software and product development, he was responsible for software development and systems strategy.

His accomplishments at Polaroid include: developing and successfully implementing new strategy and vision for wireless imaging and digital printing from mobile devices; managing Polaroid’s foray into Internet imaging for storage and manipulation of digital images based on the I-zone brand; introducing shrink-wrapped consumer software Before & After, an award-winning digital imaging product delivering “One Click to Better Pictures”; and developing the first digital camera with a 6-megapixel resolution for under $1,000.

Mr. Pineau spent five years at Kodak Electronic Printing Systems, where as director, engineering and technical marketing he led the new Color Image Products Group in developing products for its imaging technology aimed at the OEM and VAR channels.

Mr. Pineau, who holds five patents and has six patents pending, has a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and an M.S. degree in computer engineering, both from the University of Massachusetts. He is a past member of the International Imaging Industry Association’s Board of Directors.

Nimesh Singh’s career in software development has included more than a decade of experience designing products involving 360° imaging technology, the cornerstone of Oncam Gl’s unique approach to providing total security solutions.

From 2000-2009 Dr. Singh was at Westborough, Mass.-based RemoteReality Corporation, where he researched, designed, developed and maintained the company’s core 360° imaging software, as well as introduced a steady stream of new technology and product concepts. During his time at RemoteReality, he managed on-site and off-site software engineering teams and managed the execution of an omni-directional periscope project for the U.S. Navy. He also played a major part in the design and development of many omni-directional security and surveillance systems, as well as driver vision enhancement systems for various projects.

Before RemoteReality, Dr. Singh was a senior software engineer for Eastman Kodak Company in Lowell, Mass., where he worked on various facets of image processing, including developing the Kodak Picture Kiosk that lets consumers make high-quality digital prints and enlargements where they shop.

Dr. Singh also was a software engineer at Viisage Technology, Inc., a developer of biometric identification systems and solutions in Littleton, Mass., for which he helped to develop the company’s facial recognition software products marketed to the gaming industry through spinoff company Biometrica Systems.

Throughout his career, Dr. Singh has held various teaching positions and has designed college courses on such subjects as computer architecture and applications (Fitchburg State College, University of Arkansas and University of California). He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis (1993); his M.S. degree from the Asian Institute of Technology, in Bangkok, Thailand (1989); and his B.S. degree from the G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, in Pantnagar, India (1987).

David Ionson brings a strong education in law and finance, as well as a variety of corporate experiences, to the organization.

Prior to joining Oncam Global Mr. Ionson served as a paralegal and corporate tax intern at Raytheon Company, where he was responsible for the preparation of various tax-analysis memoranda related to corporate acquisitions, divestiture and restructuring. He also assisted the company’s tax team in such international matters as the Oman tax structure, GST registration in Singapore and tax implications pursuant to the Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq.

During law school, Mr. Ionson was a legal intern at Deloitte Tax LLP, National Grid and the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. He assisted senior counsel and executive management in various legal tasks, including researching and preparing legal memoranda on functional and hyperinflationary countries and the use of DASTM. He also prepared draft administrative regulations and governmental policies, as well as prepared tort presentment responses and reviewed rights under various contracts and leases.

Mr. Ionson was a paralegal before law school, working for BISYS Fund Service, where his clients’ net assets exceeded $10 billion. While there, he was responsible and jointly accountable for various regulatory filings for a number of mutual funds, and was responsible for preparing and occasionally presenting materials to clients at board meetings.

While an undergraduate, Mr. Ionson worked as a paralegal at Barron & Stadfeld, P.C., where he successfully assisted and was jointly accountable for the preparation and closure of130 commercial-real-estate transactions valued at more than $40 million.

Since 1999 Mr. Ionson has been the operations manager of the Lexington, Mass.-based Hayden Recreation Centre, where, in addition to his responsibility for employee and customer relations, he also tutors and is an instructor of woodworking, martial arts, soccer, basketball and baseball. His organizational skills also have well served the YMCA of Cambridge, Mass., where he developed and implemented a sophisticated registration and financial tracking system.

Mr. Ionson holds a juris doctorate from Northeastern University, School of Law (2009), and is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts. He also holds an MBA specializing in international business, operations management and entrepreneurship, and an M.S. degree in accounting, both from Northeastern (2008); and a B.S. degree (magna cum laude) in criminal justice, with a minor in political science, also from Northeastern (2004). Mr. Ionson also is a member of the American Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Adam Pineau applies his technical, operational and new-product expertise to creating, developing and delivering practical, integrated technology solutions to customers.

Just prior to joining Oncam Global Inc., Mr. Pineau was manager of global support operations and corporate senior technical adviser at Billerica, Mass.-based XOS Technologies, Inc. For this provider of technology solutions for coaching and facilities design and integration services that help leading sports teams and athletic administrators to integrate video and data into their training and performance activities, he was the lead application specialist and team leader responsible for turning new products into integrated IT solutions, and for technical training of numerous NFL, NCAA football, MLB and NBA coaches, and video staff on complex hardware and software applications.

Mr. Pineau also was a key technical member of the XOS marketing research team that wrote the specifications for XOS Football 2009, the premier digital video-editing software for player evaluation, recruiting, game analysis, planning, and faster and more efficient teaching. And for XOS engineers, who train some of the most prestigious players and coaches in the NFL and NCAA, he created customer training methods that reduced overall training time by almost a third.

At Pinnacle Systems, Inc. (now the Emmy Award-winning consumer division of Avid Technology, Inc.), which provides a complete set of home-video-editing and TV-viewing tools for the consumer market, Mr. Pineau was recognized for his outstanding custom-installation design skills and for his ability to solve technical issues as the top point of technical escalation.

Earlier in his career he was a personal computer tech specialist at Keyport Life Insurance Company, with responsibility for aspects of IT from software installation to hardware maintenance.

Mr. Pineau is a graduate of Northeastern University with a B.S. degree in management information systems (2003).