QuantaCool Corporation

Advanced Thermal Management Solutions

About Us

David Santoleri is co-founder and President of QuantaCool Corporation. Mr. Santoleri has broad experience in business management, production management, business acquisitions, product and process development and global sales.

Prior experience included working 18 years with DuPont in various roles involving Product Development, Manufacturing Management, Business startups, Business Team leadership and Sales development roles. In 1997, Mr. Santoleri was a partner in the purchase of a $20MM thermoplastic rubber business from DuPont. The business was sold to the Ferro Corporation in 2000 and Mr. Santoleri stayed on as the Global business manager, responsible for manufacturing, global sales, marketing, and new product development.  In 2007, he was promoted to national sales manager for Ferro’s $250MM plastics division.

In 2005, Mr. Santoleri helped create NurseBank America, LLC, a non-medical companion care business that serves the greater Philadelphia area. Mr. Santoleri assisted in raising capital to launch the LLC. 

Today, Mr. Santoleri is Vice President of Tomark Industries Inc. as such he has been involved with creating and supplying materials to the PV (photovoltaic energy) market for the last two years and has been working with most of the major solar panel manufacturers globally.

Mr. Santoleri serves a vice president for the Family Life Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization in the Philadelphia area.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of Amigos de Jesus, an orphanage for homeless boys in Honduras.

At QuantaCool, Mr. Santoleri will lead the launch of this business with initial focus on the solar energy market.

R. Steven Santoleri – Chief Financial Officer

R. Steven Santoleri serves as Chief Financial Officer for QuantaCool Corporation. Mr. Santoleri has broad leadership experience in business management, commercial, marketing and operations functions, and technology in industrial and consumer markets. Experience includes profit and loss responsibility for $190MM multiple product line business. He has 15 years experience in Operations Leadership for multiple business/sites and 15 years of Business Leadership experience.

Mr. Santoleri’s most recent experience includes taking a start-up business from R&D phase to commercial state. This included developing initial supply chain for new business including supplier contracts, customer service organization and manufacturing capability for an equipment and consumable business in the LCD industry.  Mr. Santoleri led a team to install new imaging process equipment for beta evaluation in customer production facility in Taiwan.

In 2005, Mr. Santoleri helped create NurseBank America, LLC, a non-medical companion care business that serves the greater Philadelphia area.  Mr. Santoleri assisted in raising capital to launch the LLC. 

Mr. Santoleri serves a treasurer for several non-profit organizations in the Philadelphia area.

At QuantaCool, Mr. Santoleri will assist in establishing the supply chain, manufacturing capability and proper accounting for the corporation.

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Steven Schon is co-founder and CTO of QuantaCool Corporation, and inventor of QuantaCool’s patent-pending MHP^TM cooling technology.  Mr. Schon brings extensive experience in research, development, scale-up, and improvement of industrial processes and products.

Mr. Schon is an accomplished chemical engineer, with degrees from Columbia and Drexel University.  He is a recipient of R&D Magazine’s prestigious “R&D 100” award, holds 12 patents with 5 additional patents pending, and has several publications.  Mr. Schon is a Registered Professional Engineer, and has been an Adjunct Professor since 2001 in the Drexel University’s Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering. 

Mr. Schon has worked at the interface between R&D, business and manufacturing for over 30 years.  He has been a key team member in the commercialization of new products and processes, and has supervised engineers, technicians, and operating personnel. 

At QuantaCool, Mr. Schon will focus on driving the technical aspects of product development and production, consultation to customers and licensees, and innovation to expand the applications and cost-effectiveness of MHP^TM cooling technology.

Dr. Alfonso Ortega is the Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Programs, and James R. Birle Professor of Energy Technology in the College of Engineering at Villanova University.  He received his B.S. in 1976 from The University of Texas-El Paso, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1978 and 1986, respectively, all in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical engineers (ASME) and a member of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), as well as the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Dr. Ortega teaches the science and design of thermal systems, and is an internationally recognized authority in the cooling of electronic systems, convective and conjugate heat transfer in complex flows, microchannel heat exchanger technology, and experimental measurements in the thermal sciences. He is the author of over 300 journal and symposia papers, book chapters, and monographs.

He started his professional career at Sandia National Laboratories, focusing on research in solar and geothermal energy topics. From 1988 to 2005, Dr. Ortega was on the faculty of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at The University of Arizona in Tucson, where he established the Experimental and Computational Heat Transfer Laboratory.

From 2004 to 2006, Dr. Ortega was the Program Director for Thermal Transport and Thermal Processing at The National Science Foundation, managing a $6.5 million program that, under his tenure, awarded in excess of $12 million in grants in emerging areas of thermal science. While at the NSF, he presented keynote and invited lectures at more than 25 universities and symposia in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He initiated a major NSF workshop on Emerging Frontiers in Thermal Transport, with the goal of identifying emerging topics and helping the NSF to define the thermal transport research agenda for the next decade.

Dr. Ortega joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University in 2006, he established the Laboratory for Advanced Thermal and Fluid Systems, which is the focal point for his research in fundamentals and applications of heat transfer in thermal-fluid systems. The laboratory is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in the heat transfer and fluid mechanics, fundamentals of convective heat transfer in single and two phase flow, especially in problems that arise from the technology of electronics thermal management, gas turbine cooling, and alternative energy technologies.

Dr. Ortega has also held visiting positions at The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Technical University at Delft, The Netherlands (TU-Delft), and has served on international doctoral committees in Sweden, The Netherlands, and Korea. He is currently an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, a former Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging and Guest Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology. His many awards include the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1990), the 2001 ASME Electronic Packaging Division Thermal Management Award, and the 2002 IEEE SEMITHERM Significant Contributor Award. In 2003, he was awarded a U.S. Army Medal of Commendation to recognize research work of lasting benefit to the U.S. Army.