Aethon is the leader in the business of low-cost, pilot-less hauling of materials indoors. We substitute a pilot-less Tug^® for a person. Our name is borrowed from one of the four horses of ancient Greek mythology that pulls Helios' chariot, the sun, across the sky each day.

Our competitive advantage is our patented indoor positioning system, with a manufacturing cost a fraction of our competitors, which navigates with ±3" accuracy and allows us to automate indoor transport at one-fourth the cost of a person pushing a cart.

Aldo Zini is the President and CEO of Aethon. Mr. Zini has previously been instrumental in founding two other successful venture-backed companies. From 1991-96 he was the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Automated healthcare, who developed the first robotic medication dispensing system for hospitals (Robot- Rx) and were acquired by McKessonHBOC in 1996 for $65 million. He joined the founder during the early stage startup of this company and played a key role in VC funding,

company and product development, product launch, sales (sold first 15 robots) and marketing. From 1996 to 1999 he assumed corporate responsibilities with McKessonHBOC as Senior Vice President of Marketing, where his Institutional Division’s annual sales grew from $1 billion to $5 billion. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for TechRX, the largest provider of software solutions to the pharmacy industry, which was sold to NDC Corp. for over $200 million.

Aethon's principal advisors are Sean McDonald, founder of McKesson Automated Healthcare and CEO of Precision Therapeutics, Inc.; and Donald Jones, Managing Director of Draper Triangle Ventures and founder of four highly successful technology companies.

Aethon's business operations team combines experienced business managers and technical experts. It includes Terry Michael (VP Marketing), former Director of Marketing for Smith Kline Deedram, Spencer Allen (Chief Technical Officer), former Chief Technical Officer for Market Central, and Barry Skirble (Chief Information Officer), former CIT of McKesson Automated Healthcare.