Dr. Larry Grim, the company’s principle investigator, has over 28 years of electronic hardware and software design experience through numerous research and development projects. His career has focused on interfacing computers to real world devices for the purposes of data collection/signal processing and system control. For the last 15 years, he has been involved with the US Army in developing, implementing, and testing standoff passive chemical detectors. Larry has designed chemical detection systems based on autonomous sensors that consist of a rugged embedded PC104 computer interfaced with a FTIR spectrometer and a blackbody source. He designed the embedded software for automatic chemical detection and the broadcast of results to a remote user interface. Larry has a PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware.

Mr. Thomas Gruber, MESH's director of engineering, has over 10 years experience in FTIR chemical sensor R&D. He developed the radiometric calibration, synthetic data, quantitative detection, and tomographic mapping software programs. Thomas did the embedded electronics stack, blackbody calibration device, and system integration engineering design work for the Chemical Cloud Tracking System and the Mobile Chemical Agent Detector. He was responsible for the active and passive FTIR quantitative algorithm comparison experiment. Thomas has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Clemson University and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.

Ms. Sharyn Grim is President of MESH, the company she founded in 1978. Sherry's technical responsibilities include: scientific data analysis, project management, analysis of all field data and interpretation of results, algorithm development for passive chemical sensing, algorithm development for X-ray diffraction, software testing and pattern recognition.  She received her B.S. degree in Physics from Elizabethtown College and her M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts.

Mr. Dustin Grim is the company's director of operations responsible for testing and manufacturing.  He has over 8 years experience in the chemical sensing industry.  During the last 5 years, he has directed tests at the Nevada and Utah Test Sites, represented MESH at the “Battle in Seattle”, and lead all RESTOPS chamber and field exercises (including Osan in South Korea).  Dusty has a B.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts.