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Mark Cola, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Sigma Labs, a company that develops and engineers advanced, in-process, non-destructive quality inspection systems for commercial firms worldwide joins Enterprise Radio.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Mark Cola discuss the following:
- What provides you with the “spark” to lead? Tell us something about yourself… what gets you up and going in the morning?
- As an entrepreneur, what have been the biggest risks that you have taken in your career? For your company?
- Your company started off as part of Los Alamos National Laboratories. Can you please describe the impetus to start a new company when you could have likely remained at Los Alamos as a perfectly content engineer? Why take on the risk of forming a new company?
- How has your prior experience prepared you for your role at Sigma Labs & how has your role at Sigma prepared you for your future entrepreneurial endeavors?
- You’ve certainly been part of and witnessed tremendous revolutions in technology and engineering. What do you think is the single, most impactful disruptive technology that you have been involved with and why?
- If someone were to launch a totally new company, what advice would you give them regarding which industry to be involved with, if they were looking for excitement, growth potential and “the next frontier”?
Mark J. Cola was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Labs in September 2012 and President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of the Company in September 2010. From June 2006 through April 2010, Mr. Cola served as Director of Operations for the Beyond6 Sigma Division of TMC Corporation. In addition, Mr. Cola has over 32 years of experience in the aerospace and nuclear industries, including with Rockwell International, SPECO Division of Kelsey-Hayes Co., Westinghouse in the Naval Nuclear Reactors Program, Houston Lighting & Power, and within the NNSA Weapons Complex at Los Alamos National Laboratory at which he held various technical and managerial positions including team leader and group leader of the welding and joining section as well as an advanced manufacturing technology group, respectively. He has also worked as a Research Engineer at Edison Welding Institute and for Thermadyne’s Stoody Division, a leading manufacturer of wear-resistant materials.
At Beyond6 Sigma, Mr. Cola worked with a wide range of clients ranging from aerospace to defense systems. His expertise is in manufacturing process development, friction welding, light alloys such as titanium and aluminum, mechanical, physical and welding metallurgy, and nickel-based super-alloys for harsh environments. Mr. Cola served as the Technical Co-Chairman for the inaugural National Nuclear Security Administration Future Technologies Conference held in May 2004, and he is a principal reviewer for the American Welding Society’s Welding Journal. Mr. Cola earned a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering and an M.S. in Welding Engineering from The Ohio State University.
Website: www.sigmalabsinc.com
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