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Client Companies 

The Innovation Center serves as current home to 15 flourishing client companies, two anchor tenants, and four affiliate members. We are proud to serve the following companies:

February 2012 Innovation Center Client List (pdf)

Adena Ventures

Adena Ventures provides equity capital and operational assistance to high-growth businesses located primarily in Appalachia. The principals have decades of experience in venture capital, financial services, strategy, and company operations. Adena's investment focus includes growth-oriented ventures at various stages of development across a broad range of industries. From cutting-edge technology to more traditional opportunities, Adena works with portfolio companies to maximize overall growth.

Contact: Lynn Gellermann
Email: gellermann@adenaventures.com
Website: http://www.adenaventures.com/
Address: 340 West State Street - Unit #8 Athens, OH 45701
Current Room(s): 135A (conference room), 135B

Athens Computers and Multimedia Enterprises, Ltd.

Affiliate

Athens Computers and Multimedia Enterprises Ltd. (ACME) develops and manages computer networks in the Athens area. ACME does computer repair, virus removal, and sells and services computer hardware and software.

Contact: Mark Amon
Phone: (740) 592-1345
Email: mark@acmellc.com
Website: http://www.acmellc.com
Address: 30 East State Street, Athens, OH 45701

Austral Engineering & Softwareprofile

Austral Engineering & Software Inc. (AES) was formed as an S-Corporation on January 1, 1994. The company was created to be a professional firm in the state of Ohio in order to pursue both government and private-sector engineering research and software development projects. In its lifetime, AES has focused on dynamic systems modeling, control system design, system simulation, optimization and corresponding software development. Currently, AES pursues opportunities in non-aerospace related software development areas. AES also is pursuing work in the area of hierarchical, decentralized control of hybrid dynamical systems. Specifically, AES is interested in applications to control distributed, cooperative autonomous agents (ground, air, and space vehicles).

Contact: Daniel Allwine
Phone: (740) 593-5912
Email: mail@aes.ws
Website: http://www.aes.ws/
Address: 340 West State Street - Unit #13 Athens, OH 45701
Current rooms(s): 214, 218, 220, 222

 

BCS Engineering

Affiliate

BCS Engineering has been providing corporate ecommerce solutions to local and global businesses since 2002. They work closely with the customer to find a solution that works within budget while maintaining a professional appearance. The staff at BCSE has over 30 years combined experience in web development and web customizations and offer a variety of IT services.

Contact: Brandon Saunders
Phone: (740) 331-4481
Email: Sales@bcsengineering.com
Website: http://www.bcsengineering.com
Address: 25 Grosvenor St., Athens, OH 45701

 

Business Remixed (Athens County Economic Development Council)

Anchor

The Athens County Economic Development Council is the champion of business in Southeast Ohio. The organization is a public-private partnership committed to increasing economic opportunity in Athens County by encouraging entrepreneurship, recruiting new businesses, and helping existing businesses grow and expand. 

Contact: Todd Shelton
Phone: (740) 597-1420
Email: todd@businessremixed.com
Website: http://www.businessremixed.com
Address: 340 West State Street, Unit #26, Athens, OH 45701
Current Room(s): 138

 

Cement Marketing

Cement Marketing is an internet marketing firm specializing in social media, Search Engine Marketing and Optimization, web design and development, email marketing, affiliate marketing, traditional print advertising, and video production. Cement Marketing will work with businesses and organizations in identifying and achieving their marketing goals by formulating a marketing strategy, identifying the best channels to achieve this strategy, and executing the strategy to provide measurable data and results.

Contact: Alaina Shearer
Phone: (614) 564-9216
Email: john@cementmarketing.com
Website: http://www.cementmarketing.com/
Address: 340 West State Street - Unit #12, Athens, OH 45701
Current room: 234

CreMedia Productions, LLC

CreMedia Video Productions began in the fall of 2010 in the college town of Athens, Ohio. Founded by Ohio University video production major Max Rodriguez, the web-based company formed to accomplish a single purpose: To provide anyone willing and able with a creative means to display their individual and collaborative work. CreMedia is dedicated not only to the ideal of producing professional content, but to the notion of innovation and creativity expressed through all elements of their projects.

Contact: Kyle Ackley
Email: admin@cremediaproductions.com
Website: http://cremediaproductions.com/
Address: 340 West State Street, Athens, OH 45701
Current room(s): 135D 

Diagnostic Hybrids

Anchor

Diagnostic Hybrids innovates, develops, manufactures and markets cellular and molecular diagnostic kits for various applications in detecting a wide range of respiratory diseases, herpes infections, thyroid function, and other high value markers of disease. Their products provide an accurate, rapid and cost-effective diagnosis, and their products are changing the way people use technologies to more effectively diagnose and treat respiratory and other diseases. They strive to address a variety of health issues, impacting the quality of healthcare outcomes and the quality of life.

Phone: (740) 589-3300
Website: http://www.dhiusa.com/
Address: 1055 East State Street, Athens, OH 45701 Suite 100
Current Room(s): 136D

 

E3 Clean Technologies, Inc.

E3 Technologies is dedicated to working toward the development, deployment, and commercialization of electrochemical devices and technologies used as alternative energy sources. E3 also works to conserve the environment. Founded in 2008 by Dr. Gerardine Botte, the company commercializes technologies for use in waste water remediation, hydrogen production, water and home heating, batteries, fuel cells, and electrolyzers.

Contact: Kent Shields
Email: shields@e3cleantechnologies.com
Website: http://e3cleantechnologies.com/
Address: 340 West State Street - Unit #32, Athens, OH 45701
Current room(s): 211 (lab), 212, 240 (office)

 

ECO2Capture

ECO2Capture uses its patented membrane technology (developed by Researchers at Ohio University) to offer a cost effective solution for the mass transfer of gases into liquid media. Initial efforts are focused on the use of this technology to enhance the capture of CO2 for use in the production of microalgae products for multiple end use applications - such as nutritional ingredients, specialty chemicals and bio-remediation of nutrient laden water bodies.

Contact: Rick Johnson & Dr. Dave Bayless
Email: rick@eco2capture.com; dave@eco2capture.com
Website: http://www.eco2capture.com
Address: 340 West State Street - Unit #33, Athens, OH 45701
Current room(s): 134B

 

Ecolibrium Solar

Ecolibrium Solar manufactures an advanced generation PV solar panel mounting system--The Ecofoot. The "Game Changing" design provides the most rapid installation and flexibility, while allowing for an ultra-low environmental footprint. Engineered to provide the industry's lowest life-cycle cost. This premium-grade polymer design is a patent pending breakthrough in aerodynamic efficiency.

Contact: Brian Wildes
Email: bwildes@ecolibriumsolar.com
Phone: (740) 331-4311
Address: 241 North Congress Street, Athens, OH 45701
Current Room(s): 202

 

EZ Asphalt Technologies, Inc. - profile

EZ Asphalt Technologies, Inc. was started by Ohio University Professor Dr. Sang-soo Kim, who has invented a process for on-site testing of asphalt binders. EZ Asphalt Technologies has completed a grant from the National Department of Transportation to refine the process for commercialization and nationwide asphalt grinders are expected to use the device.

Contact: Dr. Sang-Soo Kim
Phone: (740) 597-3230
Email: kims1@ohio.edu
Website: http://www.ezasphalttechnology.com/
Address: 340 West State Street - Unit #2, Athens, OH 45701
Current room(s): 134C (office), 142 (lab)

Flare Code

Flare Code makes it easy to bring all of your digital content together behind a single QR Code. The content is optimized for traditional and mobile web as well as Android and iPhone apps, so it can be scanned with virtually every smartphone. Anyone who scans a code can then comment on it with text and images. They turn objects into mobile communities by connecting them with digital content and conversations.

Contact: Niklos Salontay
Phone: (216) 287-7151 (hq)
Email: NSalontay@flarecode.com
Website: http://www.FlareCode.com/
Address: 340 West State Street, Athens, OH 45701
Current room(s): 244

 

Interthyrprofile

The Interthyr Corporation (IC) develops diagnostics and therapeutics for endocrine diseases, autoimmune-inflammatory disease, and various types of cancer, to ultimately improve health care for humans and animals, and such is the goal of the company. IC also licenses to third parties in the health care field, generating revenue.

Contact: Leonard Kohn
Phone: (425) 877-3501 (hq) or (740) 566-6023 (research center)
Email: lkohn1@rrohio.com or leonardkohn@gmail.com
Website: http://www.interthyr.com/
Address: 340 West State Street - Unit #36, Athens, OH 45701
Headquarters: 534 4th Street, Marietta, OH 45750
Current room(s): 213 (lab), 216, 226

Max Energy Lighting Systems

Affiliate

Max Energy Lighting Systems, Inc. is a green technology company formed to provide an alternative to outdated lighting that is inefficient and neither green nor cost efficient.We specialize in retrofitting customer's existing light fixtures using lower wattage fluorescent tubes in conjunction with the MAX Brightstar reflectors, which are made in the USA.  Our fluorescent fixture retrofit kits offer a seamless, flexible, optimally advanced fluorescent technology solution.Our technology delivers the most cost efficient solution affording customers a greater savings of electricity and higher quality light while contributing to a greener environment.

Contact: Mick  Harris

Phone: (740) 448-2222


MetalloPharm LLC

MetalloPharm LLC (Columbus, Ohio) is a drug discovery company that is developing a new class of pharmaceutically active compounds based on catalytic metalodrugs that are derived from its proprietary technology and metallodrug design platform. The platform is versatile and applicable to a large array of disease indications.

Contact: Ada Cowan
Phone: (614) 306-3960
Email: metallopharm@gmail.com
Website: metallopharm.com
Current room(s): 223 (lab)

 

Mide Technology

Mide Technology Corporation develops, produces, and markets high-performance products such as piezoelectric energy harvesters, sensors and actuators, water-activated hydrogel seals, and other smart material-based products and solutions. Mide's primary customers are the U.S. Government, marine, aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing industries. The company's innovative people, systems design approach, and customer focus provides them with the ability to conceptualize, design, and deliver high-performance, smart systems and services tailored to the clients' specific needs.

Contact: Christopher Ludlow
Phone: (617) 771-2264
Email: cludlow@mide.com
Website: http://www.mide.com/
Address: 340 West State Street - Unit #9, Athens, OH 45701
Current room(s): 230

Onyx Scientific

Affiliate

Onyx Scientific, Inc. specializes in making connections, both scientific and intellectual, to move from science to products and then to the marketplace. Founded by professionals with more than 30 years' engagement in Fortune 100 companies and the U.S. Military, the Onyx team provides a cross disciplinary perspective - with knowledge ranging from particle physics to aerospce engineering, from product prototyping to information systems and from advanced mathematics to materials science. Onyx's launch business, the Unmanned Systems division, offers unmnned air vehicles (UAVs) and integrated ground support systems for surveillance and reconnaissance.

Contact: David Prince
Phone (740) 591-4559
Email: davidwprince@aol.com
Website: http://www.onyxscientificinc.com
Address: 29 Ball Drive, Athens, Ohio 45701


Promiliad Biopharma

Affiliate 

Promiliad Biopharma is an innovative drug discovery company that creates novel natural product-like small molecules in combinatorial arrays. Promiliad has developed a proprietary and unique approach to the drug discovery process, a technology called ReBACS (Recombinant Biotechnology Assisted Combinatorial Synthesis). The natural product-based feedstock generated by ReBACS offers a complex and rich structural diversity, simplifies the synthetic challenge in drug discovery and increases the probability of generating new lead compounds. They facilitate the identification of lead compounds, the preparation of focused libraries and the efficient scale up of lead production.

Contact:
Email: info@mail.promiliad.com
Address: PO Box 10, Alberton, MT 59820
Phone: (406) 201 - 7169

 

Recovery Science Technologies

Recovery Science Technologies has developed technologies that utilize 100% reclaimed asphalt pavement offering a substantial materials savings for Asphalt plant operators. They also have products that provide significant operational savings.

Contact: Paul Kinghorn
Phone (740) 707-0008
Email: pkinghorn@recoscience.com
Website:
Address: 340 West State Street - Unit #39, Athens, OH 45701
Current room(s): 135C

 

Reid Consulting Group  

The Reid Consulting Group is a technology consulting company that translates a business vision into a customized and cost-effective technology blueprint. With decades of experience, Reid Consulting Group understands and utilizes industry trends, sorting the facts from the hype as a company's design is expertly crafted. Reid Consulting Group presents companies with a tailored fit through inquiring and analyzing costs in a prompt and effective manner.

Contact: Tom Reid
Phone (740) 592-2950
Email: Tom@reidconsultinggroup.com
Website: http://reidconsultinggroup.com/
Address: 340 West State Street - Unit #24, Athens, OH 45701
Current room(s): 243

 

Third Sun Solar & Wind Powerprofile