Arias Intel Corp. (fka ASNT)

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Joseph S. Smith, PhD, MBA

Dr. Smith has co-founded and launched several start-up companies involved in optoelectronics, software development, artificial intelligence, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and 2 involved in the entertainment industry (PharmChem, RML Technologies, Carmel Sensors and SMS Logic) Dr. Smith began his career as an Analyst at Xerox Corporation. He later joined Phillip Morris Corporation in 1975 as Manager of Business Planning. In 1978 he joined Solomon Brothers and was named Vice President of Bond Portfolio Analysis in 1979.

He later joined Merrill Lynch in 1982 as Manager of Fixed Income Research, and later Shearson Lehman in 1986 as Vice President in Sales and Trading, rounding out his extensive Wall Street experience which includes securities analysis, fixed income analysis, trading, arbitrage, and sales. In 1992 Dr. Smith Co-Founded TIR Technologies, an LED optics company and served as Chief Financial Officer. The company was later sold to Teledyne. Dr. Smith received a BS in Physics in 1965 and a PhD in solid-state physics inn 1971 from the University of California, Riverside and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1973.