David Nackashi

David co-founded Protochips after struggling with gathering data as a graduate student. He and his colleagues often wished they would visualize processes at a very small scale, taking advantage of electron microscopy. Protochips was the first company to commercialize MEMS technology in electron microscopy, revolutionizing the field of in situ microscopy. His passion today is applying modern machine vision technologies to the field in order to greatly increase the quality and throughput of research.

David has board experience with other high tech start-ups, and enjoys participating in the entrepreneurial community in the Triangle. David holds a Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and from NC State. In his spare time he enjoys being outdoors with his family, music and his Jeep.