Founder and CEO of DxUpClose, Inc. Nine years at research facility directing research strategy and operations, initiator and founder in three Hewlett-Packard high-tech businesses, twenty four years of research and development experience.

Inventor of base DxUpClose technology. Created $100M business with his inventions that went on to become billion dollar business. Invented the low powered transistor used in most computing devices today. Went on to start Honeywell's diagnostic division. Then invented the LED light.

Seasoned executive working at Amdahl and Bell Labs. Serial entrepreneur and part of founding teams of Fundamental Software whose product was a precursor to Cloud Computing, which used PC’s networked together to emulate an IBM Mainframe and provided configurable workload balancing; and CPlane Inc., a startup that made optical switches for fiber optics networks.

Cyndi Nickel founded DxUpClose, Inc. in 2009 and leads all of the company’s operations and development. Her background includes twenty-four years of experience at Hewlett-Packard in a variety of leadership roles encompassing business strategy, operations management, product management, marketing, sales and R&D engineering. While at HP, Cyndi initiated and managed the development of 3 high-tech product lines using technology created at HP Labs.