Current Management
A second-generation team with deep roots in the products we make.
David Brown
David Brown has led Berkeley Nucleonics as president since 2001, seven years after joining, and has spent that time turning a respected pulse-generator house into one of the broadest signal-source companies in the industry. He drove R&D on the Model 935 SAM isotope identifier, the SAM Defender LaBr radionuclide identifier, and the PB-5 NIM pulse generator, and helped build training programs for the U.S. Air Force. He holds a B.A. in entrepreneurial management from San Francisco State University.
Off the clock, David is a devoted basketball fan and a snowboarder, and he has recently taken up gardening with his wife, a project he cheerfully admits is harder than it looks.
John Reynolds
John Reynolds joined Berkeley Nucleonics in 2006 and has been a driving force behind its growth ever since. He runs purchasing, account management, and logistics, and has made the operation measurably faster and leaner as the product range expanded. He holds a B.S. in business marketing from Sonoma State University.
Off the clock, John lives in Sonoma County with his wife and three kids, has a deep appreciation for food of every kind, loves rallying the company through competitive team sports, and keeps a personal tie to horse racing.
John Lauder
John Lauder joined in 2009 as an applications engineer and advanced to chief technical officer, solving the hard problems along the way and launching the company into new areas including RF and microwave. He anchors our most demanding customer relationships and sets the technical direction for the test and measurement lines.
Off the clock, John is a traveler drawn to the most obscure corners of the map, and he is never one to back down from a challenge, whether it is a remote destination or a hard problem at the bench.
Mark Slattery
Mark Slattery joined Berkeley Nucleonics in 2008 and leads the nuclear applications team, where he takes on some of the country’s toughest radiation detection and identification problems. He brings more than 30 years of engineering experience across motion control, nuclear detection, and test and measurement, and customers count on him for clear answers and fast, expert support.
Off the clock, Mark is a family man and the resident trivia buff with a quick sense of humor, equally at home balancing detailed support for complex customer needs and working with many of our European partners.
In Memory
We remember two colleagues whose decades of work built the foundation the company stands on.
John Yee1971 to 2008
John Yee began in the early 1970s as a bench engineer and advanced into application management over a 37-year career. He helped shape the company's arbitrary waveform generator and light pulser lines and taught its products to a generation of customers. He earned electrical engineering degrees from Stanford and UC Berkeley, and was a finalist for the state's Older Worker Award in 2002.
Mel Brown1963 to 2010
Mel Brown founded Berkeley Nucleonics in 1963 after seven years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He pioneered the company's precision pulse generators, its digital delay generators in the 1970s, and its solid-state laser instruments in the 1980s. He held B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley. The approach he set still guides the company today.