Rich Ellson holds a B.S. in Fluid and Thermal Science and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He is a founder and CTO of Labcyte. He was the area manager for novel printing technologies at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He held a variety of management and technical roles at the Eastman Kodak Company. An inventor of 70+ US patents, he is the recipient of several awards, including a Kodak Doctoral Award, 2006 PolyPops Foundation Award and a nomination for the 1994 Lemelson-MIT Prize.