OUR TEAM
The strength of an organization is resident in its team. TXL Group boasts an experienced team with cross-disciplinary strengths. Our key personnel are:

David Nemir
David Nemir, PhD, PE is a founder, board member and president of TXL Group. Nemir has over 20 years of experience in electrical systems and design. Nemir is a founder of X-L Synergy (www.xlsynergy.com), an El Paso, Texas developer and manufacturer of electrical shock protection technology. A former UTEP professor of electrical engineering, Nemir has twelve U.S. Patents.

Rodger Lovrenich
Rodger Lovrenich is a founder, board member and vice-president of TXL Group. A mechanical engineer by training, he has always had an entrepreneurial bent. When he was still in his twenties, Rodger founded Control Systems, Inc., a company which built the tracking systems for the first telecommunications satellites. He subsequently served as the director of research for Electro Autolite, and is the inventor of the distributorless electronic ignition system that is now standard for all automobiles. Rodger founded Magnum Electric of Toledo, Ohio (sold to NYSC listed Belden Wire) and El Paso based Septor Corporation, a company which developed software presently used by all major automotive manufacturers and which developed the transfer lines for the Saturn plants. Septor was sold to Daimler Benz in 1990. Rodger has been awarded twenty eight U.S. Patents.

Alan Russell
Alan Russell is a founder and board member of TXL Group. In 1986 Russell founded and continues as president of Tecma Group, LLC (www.tecma.com), a company providing manufacturing, sheltering and logistics support for companies wishing to do business in Mexico. Tecma has 12 factories and over 4000 employees.

Jan Beck
Jan Beck, PhD, has UTEP degrees in physics, computer science and electrical engineering and directs the research team at TXL Group. Jan’s PhD thesis work centered on applying probabilistic and interval uncertainty to engineering applications. A German national, Jan has spearheaded the nanotechnology work that has led to improved thermoelectric materials. Jan has one issued patent and additional patents pending.

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In addition to its in-house research staff, TXL Group boasts strong ties with faculty members of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). A relationship with UTEP affords the Company access to a lot of brainpower, equipment and infrastructure as well as an employment source as TXL Group develops its R&D staff. Key UTEP professors involved with TXL Group are:

Russ Chianelli
Russell Chianelli is a professor of Chemistry at UTEP and serves as the director of the Material Research and Technology Institute. Dr. Chianelli received a PhD degree in Chemistry from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1974. From 1974 to 1996 he held various positions in the Exxon Research and Development Corporation. Dr. Chianelli's research projects focus on both the fundamental and applied aspects of materials science as applied to petroleum catalysis, fuel cell electrodes, organic/inorganic complex materials and biofuels. His main current focus is on organic/complex materials that have led to novel catalysts and pigments. Dr. Chianelli's background and experience with catalytic processes, highly porous materials and nanostructures provides an invaluable resource to the TXL Team.

Lawrence Murr
Lawrence E. Murr is Mr. & Mrs. MacIntosh Murchison Professor and Chairman of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Program Director in the Materials Research & Technology Institute at The University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Murr received his Ph.D. in solid-state science from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Murr has taught at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Southern California, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology. He was Director of the John D. Sullivan Center for In-Situ Mining Research, President of the New Mexico Tech Research Foundation, and Professor and Head of the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. He was a past Chairman of the New Mexico Joinset Center for Materials Science and served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research and Director of the Office of Academic and Research Programs at the Oregon Graduate Institute, where he was also Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Murr has published 20 books, over 700 scientific and technical articles in a wide range of research areas in materials science and engineering, environmental science and engineering, and manufacturing. Dr. Murr's experience in materials analysis and fabrication is a huge asset to the TXL Team.

Soheil Nazarian
Soheil Nazarian is a Civil Engineering professor and Director of the Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems at UTEP. Dr. Nazarian received an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Tufts University in 1981 and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984. He is a registered professional engineer and maintains an active research and outside consulting practice. Under a TXL Group contract to UTEP, Dr. Nazarian is carrying out studies on pavement heats at various positions as a function of time of day, time of year and ambient conditions. Pilot deployments of thermoelectric powered raised pavement markers are being evaluated for long term durability.