Dr. Kayser is a rarity.  His ideas become innovative products.  His innovative products spawn companies.  His companies get bought by other companies.  His investors make money. 

Dr. Kayser follows a simple formula: identify market needs, conceive technical solutions and translate them into successful products.  He has developed a wide range of power products for the telecommunications and computer industries.  His developments have even been used in the NASA space program.  Two of his product designs have won the coveted “Product of the Year” award from Electronic Products Magazine.  He designed integrated switching regulators that were used to power the navigation system and CPU of the Mars Rover ("Sojourner") that landed on Mars in 1997.  

After earning his Ph.D. at Purdue University, he became a professor of Aeronautical Engineering.  At Purdue, he developed the first electronic seismograph, worked on the first electronic scale, consulted with NASA on the space shuttle, and managed the study of earthquake reliability in TVA power plants.  In 1978, Dr. Kayser left Purdue to start his own consulting company where, among other projects, he developed power supplies for the first IBM PC and for electronic cash registers.  In 1982, Dr. Kayser founded Micro-Energy, Inc., growing that organization from a start up to over 400 employees and $50 million in sales.  In 1987 he founded Power Trends, which was later purchased by Texas Instruments in 1999 for over $150 million.  

He is a true innovator with an outstanding ability to identify commercial applications for his technologies.  He also has extensive operating and management experience, and a proven track record of developing successful businesses.

Dr. Kaiser and his wife reside in Roanoke, Virginia where he works out of ERT’s Roanoke, Virginia research laboratory.