ELS Technology, Inc

ELS Technology understands technology, and we understand investing. We can drill deep and determine the realistic market potential and value drivers in technology firms and in entire industries.
We can help your strategic or institutional investment firm produce outsized returns in this important sector, focusing on tangible value rather than the hype that too often surrounds technology investing. Please contact Cliff Jolly at cliffjolly@elstechnology.com (+1-303-495-2090) or Wayne Allard at wayneallard@elstechnology.com (+1-970-290-8421) for a confidential consultation.

Technology & Strategy Services for Global Businesses
Chemical Process Design, Product Development and Innovation
Technology Portfolio Analysis for Institutional & Strategic Investors
We Provide Detailed Expertise In:
Clean Chemical Process Development
High-Physical-Strength Chemical Process Catalysts
Global Energy Strategy
Portable Scientific Instrument Design & Manufacture
Advanced Water Treatment System Design & Manufacturing
Custom, Autocalibrating Process Water Quality Instruments
Autocalibrating Air Quality Instruments
Aerospace Life Support Technology

People, Facilities & Experience
Clifford D. Jolly
President
Cliff has been the President of ELS Technology, Inc. since its inception in 1993. Cliff’s primary areas of expertise are in market analysis, process economics, asset valuation, technology management, chemical process development, heterogeneous catalysis, advanced water treatment, occupational safety and scientific instrumentation, product design and environmental chemistry. He has developed the financing packages then initiated and led the innovation and commercialization of six technologies that were developed under combined public and private funding, inclusive of manufacturing and marketing. Cliff has previously held positions as an energy program manager for a Fortune 500 science & technology company, a research scientist and business development manager for an aerospace firm, a collegiate and high school baseball coach for 6 years, a research scientist at a major university biomedical laboratory, and as a transaction control manager at a retail bank.
Cliff’s current interests are in clean chemical process development, Sustainable Cities of the Future, energy strategy including hybrid energy systems, retail innovation, international trade theory and practicum, and the global political/business interface. He has conducted extensive on-site research on the effects of globalization on industries and firms, particularly with respect to organizational management and positioning techniques to achieve optimization of system-wide variances in order to maximize profitability in global operations.
Cliff has worked & conducted research in over 30 countries. He holds an MBA in Global Management from Georgetown University Schools of Business and Foreign Service in Washington, DC, and an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Arizona State University in Tempe, and has completed the Private Equity Program at the London Business School. Cliff holds six (6) US Patents and is the author of over forty (40) refereed technical publications and reports. He has received five (5) NASA Certificates of Recognition for space flight and commercial technology developments, a NASA Space Act Award, and was NASA “Inventor of the Year” in 1994.
Ladislav Jezek
Principal Engineer
Ladislav has 20+ years engineering & technology management experience, including management of design and development of microprocessor control systems for automated production equipment (hardware, firmware) on many common microprocessor and microcontroller platforms, ISA and VME bus, complex PLDs, serial communication, A/D converters. He also has 15 years experience in analog design, expertise in high speed and high frequency circuits, servo control with phase locked loop, feedback loop stability, high voltage power supplies, SPICE/MICROCAP simulation; 10+ years experience in software design: C, C++, Assembly language; Real time programming, interrupts handlers; servosystems, digital feedback loops and their frequency compensation, phase lock loop, digital motor control, calibration sub-routines, data acquisition, and embedded controller programming and Embedded Controller Development for Portable Instrumentation.
Facilities/Equipment:
ELS Technology was incorporated in December 1993 and is primarily engaged in design, engineering, and production of commercial water and air treatment and monitoring systems and components, automated instrumentation for industrial applications, process consulting, and commercial analytical & test instrument manufacturing. The company utilizes a fully approved cost accounting system that meets DCAA and other government requirements.
The company operates a 3,500 sq. ft. laboratory, short-run manufacturing facility, and prototype machine shop. The company’s current facilities include a ten position catalyst dynamic column test stand, chemical vapor deposition apparatus, materials processing equipment including two high temperature furnaces and extrusion equipment, PAR electrochemical and electrolytic treatment and surface analysis equipment, a biocatalytic reactor, numerous ozone generators, UV equipment, RO/UF treatment hardware (4×40″ stainless), process instrumentation for dissolved oxygen, pH and conductivity, a Varian 3400 Gas Chromatograph, an OI Model 700 TOC Analyzer, a DR4000 Scanning UV/VIS Spectrophotometer, a PAR Model 384B Polarographic Analyzer, a Princeton Applied Research Model 173 Voltammetric analyzer, a Princeton Applied Research Model 179 Coulometer, PAR Model 175 Universal Programmer, ion-selective electrode-based monitoring equipment, pumps, Programmable Logic Controllers, data acquisition equipment, standard instrumental analysis laboratory equipment, fume hoods & glove boxes for handling small-quantity hazardous materials, a Hobart 175 Amp Mig Welder, drill presses, saws, a milling machine, lathe, and other machine tools.
The company also has a complete electronics design and manufacture station, including analog and digital hardware development stations, a software development station (C++, C#, C, VBasic and Forth), a PROM-burning station, and a component packaging/assembly area.
All company facilities conform to local, State of Colorado, and Federal regulations with regard to waterborne effluents, airborne emissions, external radiation levels, outdoor noise, waste disposal practices, and handling and storage of toxic and hazardous materials.
Overall Capabilities:
ELS personnel have extensive technical and management experience in chemical process development, analytical methods and instrumentation development for industrial processes; project engineering; program management; government and commercial sector contracting; technology transfer; chemical and hazardous material safety; component design engineering; remediation system design; process engineering; industrial waste minimization; environmental chemistry. The company has repeatedly demonstrated innovation and problem-solving abilities.
ELS Technology Experience:
Heterogeneous catalyst and catalytic process development; treatability, feasibility and demonstration tests; catalytic oxidation (ozone, peroxide, molecular oxygen), hydrogenation, and photocatalytic processes; heterogeneous catalyst preparation techniques; biocatalytic processes; enzyme immobilization techniques; materials engineering; chemistry of metals; mechanical component design and manufacturing; control instrumentation application and development; materials properties and compatibility issues; detailed knowledge of separations and detoxification technologies; water and air quality issues; ion-exchange and adsorption processes; chemistry of solids; RO, UF, and gas/liquid separation membrane technology; filtration technology; derivitization techniques for membranes and other surfaces; solid and liquid phase extraction; a wide variety of water, food, and surface microbial control techniques; phase-change operations; electrochemical techniques; and analytical chemistry.
ELS Process & Product Development Experience:
Alternative Energy, Water Treatment and Environmental
ELS/Sony – Membrane-Based Industrial Water Recycling System for TrinitronTM Television Manufacturing Facility
NASA JSC – High Temperature Microbial Check Valve for Space Shuttle
NASA JSC – Regenerable Biocide Delivery Unit
Teledyne – Air-Evap Water Recovery for Ultrapure Water System
SAIC/USAEC – Solar Array Soil Detoxification Demonstration Program
ELS – Self-Contained, Portable Water Purification Systems
NASA MSFC – Multifitration System for Space Station Water Recycling
NASA MSFC – Reagentless Separator-Removal of Aqueous Inorganic Carbon from Solution
NASA JSC – Non-Phase Change Wastewater Reclamation Subsystem
NASA JSC – Novel Membrane-based Water Reclamation Post-treatment Unit
NASA MSFC – Air Evaporation Water Recovery
NASA-MSFC – Wastewater Physical and Chemical Properties Studies
NASA JSC – Pre- and Post-Treatment of Spacecraft Wastewater
Heterogeneous Catalysts
ELS – Advanced, Physically-Stable Terephthalic Acid Purification Catalysts
ELS – Clean Catalysts for Chemical Hydrogenation Processes
ELS – Physically-Stable Porous Solid Carbon-Supported Catalysts
ELS – Synthetic Carbon-Supported Noble Metal Catalysts
ELS/NASA-JSC – Advanced Oxidation Catalysts for Spacecraft Water Reclamation
ELS – Catalytic Oxidation Systems for Water & Air Detoxification
NASA MSFC – Development of Biocatalytic Reactors for Removal of Contaminants from Wastewater
NASA MSFC – Catalytic Methods Using Molecular Oxygen for Treatment of Space Station Potable Water Stream
NASA MSFC – Catalytic Methods Using Molecular Oxygen for Treatment of Aqueous Waste
NASA MSFC – Removal of Contaminants from Wastewater Using Biocatalysts
Scientific Instrumentation
ELS – MicroTOCTM Microminiature Total Organic Carbon Analyzer
ELS/USNFESC – AeroLeadTM Automatic, Portable Airborne Lead Analyzer
ELS/NIEHS – ChromAlert Airborne Chromium Analyzer
ELS/USDOE – Portable Personal Monitors for Toxic Metal Aerosols
ELS/NASA-JSC – Space Flight Iodine Sol-Gel Film Sensors
ELS/NIEHS – Portable, Low-Cost Airborne Beryllium Analyzer
ELS/NASA-JSC – Electroanalytical Platform for Measuring Silver
ELS – Portable Mercury Analyzer
Zellweger Analytics – Ultrapure Water TOC & pH Water Quality Monitor Design & Components
Zellweger Analytics – Space Station Freedom Phase C/D Process Control Water Quality Monitor (PCWQM) Components
Marotta Scientific – Micro-miniature Solenoid Valve Design, Materials Compatibility