Founders
Thomas Coleman, CEO
As Chief Executive Officer of Novara Sensing Corp, Thomas takes the leading role in business organization, system deployment, and product commercialization.
In a prior role, Thomas managed Silixa’s Missoula, MT office, driving Silixa’s North American business with a 5-year CAGR of 39.5%. He organized a highly diverse and multitalented team with global leading expertise in science, engineering, data analyses, and project operations. Activities ranged from fiber optic cable installations in 10,000 ft wells to geophysical surveys to engineering and commissioning of real-time multi-physics-based monitoring systems to custom development efforts for aiding our Nation’s defense.
Thomas holds B.S. in Geosciences and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Montana and a M.A.Sc. in Water Resources Engineering from the University of Guelph. In 2021, Thomas was awarded the U.S. D.O.E. Secretary’s Achievement Award as part of the Source Physics Dry Alluvium Geology Team for distributed fiber optic sensing-based contributions advancing the science of nuclear explosion monitoring.
Luke Beardslee, CTO
Luke co-founded Novara Sensing Corp. and serves in the capacity of Chief Technology Officer. He leads all research activities and product development.
Luke's prior experience includes large scale multi team explosive experiments and managing an acoustics lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and research lead for subsea imaging and flow monitoring acoustics at Luna Innovations’ Silixa subsidiary. He has extensive experience in acoustics research ranging from detection of atmospheric re-entry of the NASA OSIRIS-REx space capsule, to non-destructive evaluation of complex materials for the DOE directed mission. For the past several years Luke has focused on data processing and algorithm development for distributed acoustic sensing applications.
Luke graduated from Montana State University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology and completed dual M.E. degrees in Systems Engineering and Acoustic Engineering from Penn State University. While at LANL, Luke was awarded the 2021 U.S. D.O.E. Secretary’s Achievement Award as part of the Source Physics Dry Alluvium Geology Team for contributions advancing the science of nuclear explosion monitoring.
