Lev Davidson, Co-Founder & CEO
lev@purenanotek.com
Lev is responsible for all aspects of strategy, business development and the overall success of the company.  Prior to co-founding pureNANO, Davidson was a top-ranked analyst at JP Morgan in New York on the team responsible for the global equity investments platform.  He was responsible for providing analytics, research and education to 120 investment advisors representing $10B in client assets.  Lev received an MBA from the Fox School of Business at Temple University and an BA in Economics from Brandeis University. At Brandeis, he was a four-year member and captain of the Varsity Swim Team.

Eric Borguet, Ph.D., Co-Founder & CTO
eric@purenanotek.com
Dr. Eric Borguet is a Professor of Chemistry at Temple University, and has significant experience in nano-scale science and technology commercialization.  At Temple, he runs The Borguet Group, whose principal focus is chemical and physical processes at surfaces and interfaces. Current research themes include:

• Nanoporous Carbon Materials
• Nanoscale Dynamics at Interfaces
• Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Processes at Interfaces
• Electrical Conductivity in Single Molecules.
• Surface Mediated Sensor Devices

Dr. Borguet was born in Dublin, Ireland, where he spent his formative years.  He attended college in France at the Université de Paris-Sud (XI-Orsay) where he studied chemistry and physics.  He traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the USA and obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, under the mentorship of Professor Hai-Lung Dai where he investigated adsorption and intermolecular interactions on stepped metal surfaces.  His post-doctoral training was carried out at Columbia University in the group of Professor Kenneth Eisenthal where he carried out nonlinear optical studies of spectroscopy and ultrafast dynamics at liquid interfaces.

Honors and Awards include:

American Physical Society, Fellow, 2010
American Chemical Society, Philadelphia Section Award, 2009
U.S. Young Observer to 2007 IUPAC General Assembly and Congress, 2007
Visiting Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2007-2008
Visiting Professor, Université de Bordeaux, France, 1999
NSF-CAREER Award, 1998-2002