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Joe Jones, President and CEO of Skyonic, earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas and spent the first 25 years of his career in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, working at Texas Industries, Cypress Semiconductors, and others. He participated in the start-up and operation of five wafer-fabrication plants (TI, AMD, and Cypress), the development of one of the first fabless semiconductor companies (Ross Technology), and an independent outsource semiconductor company he founded (BridgePoint Technical Manufacturing). His credits include numerous contributions to the chemistry of wafer-fabrication and semiconductor testing, and his goal is to apply the low-energy lessons he learned in semiconductor development to the problem of creating a low-energy method of sequestering CO2. A businessman, as well as an engineer and an environmentalist, Joe left his position as CEO of BridgePoint when his belief in the need for clean, sustainable energy led him to begin development of the SkyMine technology and found Skyonic Corporation in 2005. | 