Dr. Hibbs is a leading scientific and industrial figure in the low-frequency electromagnetic sensing community. Before founding QUASAR in 1998, Dr. Hibbs served as CEO of Quantum Magnetics, where he oversaw all aspects of corporate growth and product development. Dr. Hibbs was responsible for shepherding an explosive detection system from early scientific investigation to commercially available product. He also secured private equity investments and successfully negotiated the acquisition of Quantum Magnetics by Invision. While at QM, Dr. Hibbs acquired all rights to IBM’s large portfolio of superconducting materials, device patents, and know-how.

Dr. Hibbs has been responsible for many important advances over a broad range of electromagnetic instrumentation. These include:

• • QUASAR’s proprietary electric field sensors, which permit the first true free-space electric field measurements
• • A SQUID-based imaging instrument (1992 R&D 100 Award), which enabled a superconducting sensor to make high sensitivity measurements while operating in an oscillating magnetic field (over 50 units sold worldwide)
• • The first commercially available Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) explosive detector (1995 R&D 100 Award)
• • A SQUID-based variable temperature NMR system for very low frequency measurements

Dr. Hibbs was named “Person of the Year” by Superconductor Week in 1994 and received the Grand Winner, SBIR Technology of the Year award in 1999. Dr. Hibbs earned his PhD in Physics, and his B.A. and M.S. in Engineering, all from Cambridge University.

Mr. Duff holds an MBA from Oxford University, UK, and technical degrees from Harvard and UCSD. Before joining QUASAR, Mr. Duff was Director of Business Development for InVision Technologies, where he was charged with leveraging the success of Fortune Magazine’s #1 Fastest Growing Company into a sustainable diversified entity. His business focus is built on 19 years of experience in science and engineering, during which time he ran his own technical solutions company, and acted as chief scientist for firms in medical device development and industrial quality assurance. He joined QUASAR with the goal of applying his experience with commercialization partnerships to bring QUASAR technologies to market.

Dr. Walid Soussou leads and manages QUASAR’s efforts at developing applications of QUASAR’s dry-electrode EEG technology for cognitive state assessment. With a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Southern California (USC), Dr. Soussou leverages his expertise in electrophysiology and Brain-Computer-Interfaces, and experience in sleep research for developing commercial applications for QUASAR’s wearable EEG/EOG/EMG/ECG sensors.