Jonathan G. Morgan assumed the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Science, Inc. in 2009, after years of building and managing businesses in a variety of industries. He was a founder and served as President and CEO at PingDa Travel, a company organized to undertake a major roll-up in the corporate travel industry in China. He also was President and CEO of First Virtual Communications, a developer of highly scalable and secure, enterprise class, rich media communications solutions, for clients including the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Morgan began his career as an investment banker, and held major positions in a number of firms, including Worldwide Head of the Technology Group at Prudential Securities; Founding Partner and Managing Director of the mergers and acquisitions business at Montgomery Securities, and a member of Morgan Stanley’s mergers and acquisitions department.
Mr. Morgan is a founder and Chairman of Plus 3Networks, a pioneer in the use of social media to develop corporate wellness solutions; a member of the strategic advisory board at Bishop Wisecarver, a leader in the engineering and development of motion technology solutions, and the independent director of Zuli Inc., a company focused on developing Bluetooth low energy devices and related mesh networks that are both intelligent and highly scalable. He received his HBA from the School of Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario, where he was a member of the Dean’s Honour’s List.