MANAGEMENT TEAM                        

James ‘Micky’ Blackwell - Director & Chairman of the Board

Micky Blackwell is the Chairman of SCANTECH HOLDINGS and is an accomplished technology executive with over 35 years of successful management experience in managing and leading domestic and international advanced technology programs. Previously, Blackwell served as President of Lockheed Martin - Aeronautics Business Sector and was responsible for all of Lockheed Martin’s military and commercial aircraft programs. During his tenure, Blackwell established Lockheed Martin as the premier military aircraft company in the world, winning major awards for the design or development of eleven new aircraft programs (e.g. F-22, JSF, C-130J, X-33, C-27J, JASSM, etc).
Education: B.S. Aeronautical Engineering (University of Alabama) and M.S. Aeronautical Engineering (University of Virginia)

Dolan P. Falconer Jr. - Founder, and Director & Chief Executive Officer

Dolan Falconer is the Chief Executive Officer of SCANTECH HOLDINGS and has over twenty-five years of experience in the nuclear industry managing and consulting on advanced technology and engineering projects for private industry and the federal government. He is a member of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s - Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni. Prior to founding SCANTECH HOLDINGS, Falconer co-found and served as Executive Vice President of Parallax, Inc., a $25+ Million private nuclear safety company. Prior to founding Parallax, Falconer served as a senior consultant with several nuclear consulting firms. Falconer began his career with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) where he served as resident and operations inspector.
Education: B.S. and M.S. Nuclear Engineering (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Henry Sutherlin - Founder, Director, Secretary, and President & Chief Financial Officer

Henry Sutherlin is the President of SCANTECH SCIENCES and Acting CFO of SCANTECH HOLDINGS. He has twenty plus years of highly successful experience in sales management, operations management, and raising start-up capital. Sutherlin established a most impressive record in sales management for the Hobart Corporation before taking on the challenge of Senior Vice President of MedServ Inc. where he directed a 650% increase in sales over two years and participated in two private stock offerings to secure working capital for company growth. He left MedServ to form Direct Medical, Inc., where, as President & CEO, he grew program sales from $0 base to $75 million in 1993. Medecon Services, a hospital group purchasing organization with 1,200 facility members in 28 states and over $1 Billion in yearly program sales, later purchased Direct Medical.
Education: B.S. Accounting (Cornell University) and M.B.A. (University of Virginia)

Mark Ferderer - Vice President of Engineering & Manufacturing, and Chief Technology Officer

Mark Ferderer is the Vice President - Engineering and Manufacturing, and Chief Technology Officer with over 16 years of engineering and research development experience. Prior to SCANTECH, Ferderer provided engineering consulting services to Tyco Healthcare - Ludlow Technical Products Division. He began his career as a Reliability Engineer for International Paper. Ferderer took a promotion to Senior Process Engineer with Rexam Release and supervised a successful design, start-up, validation, and customer qualification of a $45 Million “green field” coating facility. He became Manager of Engineering and Process Technology for Brown-Bridge Industries that dealt with capital project planning and budgeting, detail engineering reviews, facility capacity planning, and large project management for a $120 Million pressure sensitive label manufacturer. Ferderer then accepted promotions as Project Manager and Chief Engineer for two large coating and manufacturing firms.
Education: B.S. and M.S. Mechanical Engineering (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Chip Starns - Vice President of Operations

Chip Starns is the Vice President of Operations and has over 15 years of successful management experience in operations and sales & marketin g. He is a former U.S. Navy Diver and past-President of the Georgia Tech Alumni Club- Charlotte. Prior to SCANTECH, Starns served as a Senior Nuclear Engineer for Southern Company supervising nuclear refueling operations. In 1992, he began his career in the U.S. Navy as Supervisor for Nuclear Reactor Operations and Dive Operations Supervisor aboard nuclear fast attack submarines. After the Navy, Starns joined the nation's largest fitness equipment retailer and earned the distinction of "Top Corporate Sales Representative". In 2002, he joined one of the leading owner/operators of independent fixed-site medical outpatient Diagnostic Imaging Centers as Regional Area Manager.
Education: B.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Graduate - U.S. Navy Nuclear Power School and U.S. Navy Dive School