April 11, 2006 – NanoInk Inc., a Skokie, Ill.-based maker of nanotech tools for manufacturing, development and other applications, named four new executives.

The company appointed JoAnne Smith Joyce as senior vice president and general counsel, Jim Whittle as vice president of business development, Bruce Dudzik as senior director of business development, and Tom Levesque as senior director of DPN global sales.

Joyce will head all legal activities, including management of the company’s intellectual property strategy and transactional work. She will also manage outside counsel. Most recently, she worked at Great Lakes Chemical Corp., where she was vice president and general counsel for its performance chemicals division.

Whittle was previously at AT Kearney, where he was a member of the global healthcare/life sciences sector team. Dudzik was previously at Affymetrix and Levesque was at SYNOVA.