John P. de Neufville, Ph.D.
is the President and founder of Voltaix, Inc., a manufacturer and international supplier of electronic gases based in North Branch, NJ.  He started Voltaix, Inc. in 1986 to capture the market for an obscure gas, germane, GeH4, which is used in multi-junction solar cells based on "amorphous silicon" to improve efficiency by better converting the red and near infra-red portions of the solar spectrum into electricity.  He has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics (specialty in Materials Science, Harvard, 1969), an M.S. (Harvard, 1965) and a B.S. (Yale, 1961) in geology, and is a self-taught chemist, who has worked on advanced batteries, phase change rewritable CD technology, catalysis, uranium exploration technology and semiconductor physics at Energy Conversion Devices in Troy, MI and Exxon's Corporate Lab when it was in Linden, NJ.  He was a Board Member of Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey from 1994-1999, serving as Vice Chairperson in 1995 and Chairperson in 1998.  He has been a trustee on the board at the Morris Land Conservancy since 1995.

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