Chairman of the Board
Mr. Robert N. Schmidt founded and is the chairman of Cleveland Medical Devices, Orbital Research, NeuroWave Systems, Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc., and Flocel Inc. He received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and his MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; his MBA from the Univ. of Utah, and his Juris Doctor (81) from Cleveland State University. He is a licensed professional engineer (Ohio, 76) and an attorney (Ohio, 81 and US Patent and Trademark Office, 82).
Mr. Schmidt supervised programs for the US military, NIH, NASA, DoEd, DoT, NSF, Exxon, Arco, and Shell. He has 30 US patents, and has led two companies onto the Inc. 500. He is the only person to have been awarded by Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School and Inc. Magazine the “Inc. Inner City 100 Award” for the fastest growing companies 7 times in the first 7 years of the award.