Bioizer Technologies, Inc. Founder

Robert C. Smallwood,
Founder, Chairman and CEO

Bioizer Technologies, Inc. was founded by Robert W. Smallwood, a lifelong inventor and lighting industry veteran with a strong track record in successful new product development.

An expert in lighting ballast design, Robert Smallwood was responsible for the development of the Saver Plus technology that is incorporated into the half-bridge ballast design found in nearly all fluorescent lighting systems today.  In addition to BIOIZER^®, he has numerous lighting application patents including Decór Lite, MemoSwitch and the Master Lite Power Distribution System, a socket and ballast for gas discharge lamps. 

In 1979, Bob Smallwood started Digital Matrix Corporation to develop and manage hospital information systems.  Because of the success of Digital Matrix, Bob was able to sell his interest in 1984 and start a brain trust utilizing some talented professionals and entrepreneurs as sounding boards. Analyzing business prospects and the future direction of the computer industry, Bob led the group to investigate and produce prototypes such as the ear telephone, Internet sales models, interactive computer teaching, and finally, cost-effective, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly lighting products.

In 1982, Bob began to work with U.S. engineers, Korean universities and a manufacturing firm to perfect his design, engineer and manufacture Saver Plus products. Smallwood Ltd. was created in 1985 to commercialize the Saver Plus technology. In 1988, a Phoenix-based investment group purchased Smallwood Ltd.  Bob then moved on to refine and improve the half-bridge rectifier design, setting a new industry standard.  Next to follow was a new generation of lighting and electronic ballasts.

In August 1992, Bob launched Master Light Power Distribution Systems, a master/slave controller system with the capacity to operate multiple lamps within multi-voltage configurations. The power distribution system is comprised of only two modules: a power controller (master) and a lamp driver (slave), increasing efficiency and improving overall ballast operations. Today, Master Light Power Distribution Systems are the basis for the operation of the plasma TV.  Elgin Technologies, traded on the Nasdaq, purchased this technology from Bob in 1997.

Bob’s next venture was in a specialty niche of the fluorescent lighting market - compact fluorescent lights (CFL) and under counter lights. Working with his engineering team, he developed the PureSpectrum™ design. TransWorld Lighting, Inc (TWL) was formed on December 8, 2000, to design, manufacture and market the PureSpectrum range of lighting products, including a novel discovery on the relationship and properties of fluorescent lighting that created brighter light for less energy. This discovery was so important that TWL immediately filed for a utility patent. 

In late 2003, Bob was forced to leave TWL due to illness. After months of convalescing, Bob resumed his research in lighting and in this process made another observation in lighting that led him to file more patents in the Photocatalytic Oxidation (PCO) activation industry and form a new company to commercialize his discoveries - Bioizer Technologies, Inc.