Cushing Whitney

June 17, 2026 Francois Martin

Cushing Whitney brings thirty years of software engineering experience to Laser Thermal, with a background spanning scientific computing, cloud platforms, financial services, and energy efficiency. He has spent his career building software where the code directly affects the validity of scientific output, not just user experience.
He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Columbia Universities and has worked across a range of startups and complex technical organizations throughout his career.
At Laser Thermal, Cushing leads the development of the user interfaces and analysis tools that sit between the instrument and the result. The work of his team ensures that the precision of the automated instrument, data capture and analysis is absolutely reliable.
In his off hours, Cushing enjoys travel, camping, and visiting wineries around central Virginia.


Francois Martin

Francois Martin

Francois Martin is Marketing Manager at Laser Thermal. The company makes precision instruments for non-contact, non-destructive thermal conductivity measurement, serving the semiconductor, power electronics and thermal management industries. He oversees how Laser Thermal tells its story, from technical content and sales collateral to video production, webinars and trade show presence. The goal is to make the company's science clear and useful to the engineers and researchers who rely on accurate thermal data. Francois brings more than 25 years of marketing and executive leadership experience. He was VP of Marketing at Nelson Miller Group, an outsourced manufacturing provider for OEMs. Before that, he spent more than two decades at WorldStrides, rising from Marketing Director to Senior Vice President in the Office of the CEO. He is adjunct faculty in the MBA program at James Madison University's College of Business, where he teaches Project Management. Francois holds an MBA in Marketing from George Washington University and a Graduate Certificate in Project Management from the University of Virginia.