Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Director; former Executive and Senior Research Scientist for Rohm and Haas Company, was responsible for assessing the market for fiber optic products, assisted in the development of the ten-year strategic marketing plan, and acted as Marketing Manager for an electronic division; B.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill; Ph.D. in chemistry from Indiana University.

     Corporate Secretary and Director, responsible for global licensing of Remote Light’s Intellectual Property portfolio. Prior to co-founding Remote Light, Mr. Burnett was a financial consultant and Registered Investment Advisor, mostly with Smith Barney, for approximately ten years. Mr. Burnett previously was an entrepreneur in Raleigh, NC and received his under-graduate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and attended Wake Forest University School of Law.

Ahmed Shaikh
Executive Vice President of Operations

     Before joining Remote Light, Inc Mr. Shaikh served as President & COO of The Knockout Group Inc, a strategically-integrated global marketing company committed to the development of celebrity branded products that are safe and environmentally friendly.  Prior to that he served as President of Internet Global Inc, a Dallas-based Internet service provider. He worked with the entire organization to help coordinate all major business activities and projects. Before Internet Global Mr. Shaikh was the Senior Vice President of Operations, Store Planning, and Real Estate for Computer City, America’s second largest computer superstore retailer, which had annual sales of $2 billion from operations in the U.S. and Canada. Prior to Computer City he was Regional Operations Manager for Comp USA, the largest computer superstore retailer with annual sales of over $3 billion. He holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Sindh, Pakistan. 

     A former CEO of two public companies and director of five others, Mr. Johnston led these companies to double digit revenue growth and has raised over $100 million in private capital. He has served on the SEC Audit Committee as a Financial Expert and is the Founding Chairman of the Board of the North Carolina Electronics and Information Trade Association (NCTA), now the largest technology trade association in NC. Named the 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), Mr. Johnston graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University before going to UNC-Chapel Hill to study law. He continued his education at Harvard University and Stanford University and is an advisory board member at The Bryan School of Business and Economics.

•Edward Dugger, III

     Mr. Dugger managed the private equity funds of UNC Partners, Inc. for 25 years. Mr. Dugger has served on the Board of Directors for dozens of emerging companies and for some has also held the position of interim President or CFO. Mr. Dugger has served as both a director and an executive committee member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He was selected by the Boston Business Journal as one of Greater Boston’s 100 most influential business people of the 20^th century. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Princeton University.