Bill Kroll completed his undergraduate and graduate work at Northwestern University. He's an established author, having penned more than 50 papers in the areas of physical and chemical vapor deposition for semiconductor technology, and he is a member of IEEE, SEMI, SPIE, SAE, The Electrochemical Society and MRS. Bill has served on the Boards of Princeton Photonics and Optoelectronics Materials Center, and currently serves on the boards of the CGA, AeA, IOMA, Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation. Kroll was inducted into the New Jersey High Tech Hall of Fame in 2004, and was named as one of the top 25 Entrepreneurs in NJ by NJ Biz in 2006. Under Kroll’s leadership, Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. was named Large Company of the Year by the New Jersey Technology Council in 2006. And in addition to being a master marketeer (especially in CS gasses and MOCVD technology), Bill Kroll is also a master sailboat skipper.