Mr. Michael Messemer
CEO/President
Mr. Messemer is an investor and General Manager of Asset Management Company, where he focuses on managing the venture capital portfolio. In addition to HYPRES, he serves on the board of directors at Dianomic Systems, Trucentive, SeeQC, Immungenetics, BabyPage and the Franklin and Catherine Johnson Foundation. Previously, Mr. Messemer spent 10 years in the United States Navy as an F/A-18 Hornet pilot. While serving as an instructor, he was responsible for administration of the F/A-18 air-to-air and departure/spin training syllabi. In this role, he earned special recognition from the commanding general of the Finnish Air Force for his work with Naval Air Systems Command and Boeing to upgrade and modernize the Finnish F/A-18 fleet weapons systems and training tactics. While attached to USS Nimitz, Mr. Messemer earned an Air Medal for combat missions flown in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Dr. Elie Track
Science and Technology Advisor
Dr. Elie Track is serving as Science and Technology Advisor to the Hypres management, staff, and Board of Directors. He retired at the end of June 2025 from his role as Hypres CTO, which he had held since he had rejoined Hypres in January of 2022. In all his roles and activities he continues his lifelong work in superconducting electronics and its applications in communications and computation. He had also been with HYPRES from 1987 to 2013 in different roles, joining after his Ph.D. in 1987, progressing to lead as President and CEO from 1994 to 2000, and Senior Partner until 2013. From 2014 to 2020, he served as Senior Advisory Engineer for ESG Government Solutions on Assignment at Northrop-Grumman in Baltimore. From 2003 to 2005, he was Visiting Professor of Physics at Fairfield University and is currently part-time guest Faculty at the University. In 2013, he co-founded nVizix LLC, a company focused on innovative high-efficiency solar cells. He is an IEEE Fellow, co-Founder of the IEEE Rebooting Computing initiative (currently a Task Force within the Computer Society), member of the steering committee of the IEEE Quantum initiative, Chairman of the steering committee of the IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, and past President (2011-2014) of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity. He served as President of the Yale Science and Engineering Association (YSEA) from 2007 to 2010 and as Chairman of the Coalition for the Commercial Applications of Superconductors (CCAS) from 2008 to 2010. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University (1988) and is author/co-author of over 50 publications in the field and holds six patents.