“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
BT Leadership Team


JOSEPH BIRMINGHAM
President & Founder
Joe Birmingham, President and Founder, has over 30 years of research, development, and manufacturing experience, bringing many products to markets in the energy harvesting, ionized gas, biomedical, semiconductor, among other tech industries.
Joe is a prolific inventor in several technology areas and is a listed inventor on more than 25 patents. Previously, Joe was a Senior Research Engineer in the Electrical and Chemical Processing Group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. During his tenure at Aberdeen Proving Ground, he invented, developed, and patented revolutionary air purification technology (“Plasma Catalysis”). Joe was the Chief Investigator for multiple DARPA, DOE, and other USG grants totaling over $20 million.
He received a BES (dual degree) in Chemical Engineering-Materials Science Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and has completed graduate studies in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at George Washington University.

FRANK PRAUTZSCH
Chief Executive Officer
Frank is CEO of BT, and President of Velocity Technology Partners, LLC. He is a strategist and technologist with a proven record of consistently driving revenues and profits for Fortune 100 and growth companies using advanced skills at aligning people, processes, and technologies. Frank is recognized internationally as a leader in satellite communications, IT, energy and climate change initiatives, and space systems. He has managed procurement budgets of up to $900M, IR&D budgets up to $78M, and organizations of up to 560 personnel.
Prior to BT, he was a Senior VP for ORBCOMM, Director of Raytheon Rapid Initiatives Group, Director of BD for Raytheon Communications Systems, Director of Army Requirements, Hughes Space and Communications/Boeing Satellite Systems.
Frank has a B.S. in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and completed the Command and General Staff College. He retired as Lieutenant Colonel from the US Army, is Six Sigma qualified, attended Raytheon Executive Management School at the University of Chicago, and graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
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