Management

Cambis Joseph Farahmandi  
President 

C. Joseph Farahmandi has over thirteen years of experience in the development and commercialization of electrochemical energy storage systems.  He is inventor on eleven US patents and over thirty foreign patents in this evolving field.  Prior to forming Ionix he served as Director of Energy Storage Products at Qualmag, and Director of Product Development at Maxwell Technologies, Energy Products Division.  He has served as principal investigator on over $14 million of energy storage research and development contracts.  

In 1998, he and his development team received the Most Innovative New Product Award from Connect, University of California, San Diego -- Division of Extended Studies, for the PowerCache, Ultracapacitor product line.  In 1999, the 223 PowerCache Ultracapacitor also received the Product of the Year Award from Electronic Products Magazine.  

Mr. Farahmandi earned his Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University and a  Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering also from Brigham Young University.  A selected list of past publications and patents can be found on this website. 

David Diplock  
Research Engineer

Mr. Diplock has been designing and developing software and data acquisition systems for the past 12 years. Before joining Ionix he served as a Senior Product Developer with Peregrine Systems, and has extensive experience in the fields of real time data acquisition and software control. Prior to joining Peregrine Systems, Mr. Diplock was a Senior Software Engineer at L3 Communications. While at L3 Communications, he led a team of programmers in the complete ground-up design and implementation of a distributed control application for the Automated Data Acquisition System program. The system was designed to collect and process data from thousands of channels at rates of up to 48,000 samples per second. Initial versions of this system were developed in cooperation with NASA under the Dual Use Program, and were deployed on the Space Shuttle's Mobile Launch Platform. Subsequent versions were developed with the US Air Force under the Commercial Operations and Support Savings Initiative and deployed in jet engine test cells.

Mr. Diplock holds MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Richard K. Hosey  
Corporate Counsel  

Mr. Hosey has served as general counsel for several high tech companies since 2001.  He has specialized in intellectual property rights protection and contract negotiations for domestic and international agreements.  Prior to working in corporate law Mr. Hosey worked as an associate attorney for several private law firms.  

Mr. Hosey has a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 1994.  Passed the California bar exam in 1994.