The RCD Technology management team represents industry leading experience in each functional area.
Philip Lazo
CEO
A 20-year technology industry veteran, Mr. Lazo has a proven track record in leading the development, deployment, and management of RFID
and related automatic data capture technologies in a vast range of industries including healthcare, federal and DOD, travel and transportation and retail supply chain.
Prior to joining RCD, Mr. Lazo was Vice President and General Manager of the RFID division for Motorola Corp and Symbol Technologies.
Mr. Lazo has also built and led high tech product development teams at Tyco International and Sensormatic Corp.
Mr. Lazo graduated from the University of South Florida, with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He is also the holder of two U.S.
Patents relating to RFID technology and applications.
Robert Oberle, Ph.D.
CTO and Founder
Dr. Robert Oberle founded RCD Technology in 2000 and presently serves as Chief Technology Officer and as a member of its Board of Directors.
Dr. Oberle is responsible for the design and development of RCD’s products and processes to meet the needs of its diverse customer base.
He holds five issued US patents and numerous foreign patents as well as numerous patents pending in the US and internationally. Dr. Oberle
has spoken at numerous conferences on the subject of RFID tag fabrication and assembly. Prior to founding RCD Technology, Dr. Oberle held
positions in Marketing and Product Development with Engelhard Corporation, now part of BASF GmbH, and Research and Development at Enthone
Corporation, a subsidiary of Cookson Electronics. He holds a Ph. D. and MS in Materials Science from The Johns Hopkins University and a BS in
Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Sandra Garby
Vice President, Operations and Founder
Ms. Sandra Garby is responsible for the day to day manufacturing
and production operations at RCD Technology. For over 20
years she has been directly involved in electronic materials
development focusing on metallization, sensors and film
development. Prior to joining RCD Technology, she spent
6 years at Engelhard Corporation as Business Manager responsible
for automotive glass, industrial, component and sensor product
lines, which resulted in 177% sales growth in two years.
Ms. Garby has earned her MBA from LaSalle University and
holds a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University.
Ken Horton
Chief Operating Officer
Ken Horton is a veteran of nearly 25 years of hands on experience in operating positions.
In his most recent role, as VP of Operations at Cerionx, Ken led a team of engineers and scientists which
developed the first low temperature, atmospheric plasma cleaning system for deployment in drug
development laboratories, where it was used to clean pipettes. Ken’s team developed this groundbreaking
technology from concept to full commercial deployment in a two year period, amassing several patents
in the process. At his prior assignment, as the VP of Operations at Mattson Technologies Wet Process
Division, Ken’s accomplishments included cost, cycle time and inventory reduction, on time shipment and
quality improvement, design for manufacturing, lean process implementation and domestic and international
outsourcing. In addition, Ken has had broad management experience, and brings a well rounded vision to the
operations management role. Ken served as VP of Marketing at Quad Systems, CEO and Pneumatics and
Hydraulics and VP of Operations at Great Valley Products and Quadrant International. Ken has helped to
lead several organizations through major transitions, including mergers, acquisitions, IPO’s and a profitable
liquidation in both domestic and international settings. Ken has an Engineering Sciences degree from
Dartmouth College, an MBA from Stanford University, and is a graduate of General Electric’s two year
Manufacturing Management Program.
Craig Weakley
Technical Director
Mr. Craig Weakley brings over 24 years of engineering
and management experience to RCD. He most recently was RF
Engineer for Avery Dennison. He successfully developed numerous
manufacturing systems and quality test systems that are
being used today. Craig has managed international technology
deployments, including far-field test system and calibration
standards for achieving a “measurement standard”
between locations. Craig has held various senior engineering
and management positions for RF and other communications
at e-star, Deskin Research Group and Lockheed Missiles and
Space Company. Craig has eleven published patents which
include eight radio frequency identification patents; one
for signal processing for object detection systems and three
for multiple beam antenna systems for simultaneously receiving
multiple satellite signals. Mr. Weakley earned his M.S.
in Electronic Engineering, and is a 23 year member of the
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques, Antennas and Propagation
Societies.
