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Roger Wheatley became associated with Exelar in 1998 as a consultant. He has been responsible for the various magnet designs that form an essential part of Exelar's products. Roger has almost 30 years of experience in forming and running high technology companies that used applied superconductivity in its products.
Prior to Exelar, Roger was employed by Intermagnetics General Corporation, a magnetic resonance imaging company. He co-founded Phospho Energetics, a developer of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy systems for in vivo biochemistry research. In 1990, Phospho was acquired by Otsuka Pharmaceutical of Japan. That success was preceded by his founding of Oxford Instruments Inc, that was sold to the Oxford Instrument Group Plc. in 1983. Earlier in his career, Roger was a design engineer at the Rutherford Laboratory in England. He was also a visiting scientist during 1991 at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida.
Roger is a graduate of the Oxford Institute of Technology, U.K. He qualified as a European Engineer (Eur. Ing.), as certified by the European Federation of National Engineering Associations (FEANI), and is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. | 