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David Soane, Ph.D., Founder, Chairman Dr. Soane is a serial entrepreneur and prolific innovator in the fields of polymer chemistry and nanotechnology. Applying nanotechnology and chemical engineering to a variety of mature industries, he has founded a number of successful companies: ACLARA (NASDAQ:ACLA), in the diagnostic testing industry; Nano-tex, a fabricator of textile materials; 2C Optics, an eyeglass lens manufacturer; ZMS, a contact lens manufacturer; and ICBM, a building materials and wallboard producer. Before his commercial ventures, Dr. Soane was a tenured Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley, with hundreds of scientific articles and patents in his resume. Dr. Soane received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley. |
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Gangadhar Jogikalmath, Ph.D., Research Director Dr. Jogikalmath has been involved in the development and commercialization of chemical and nanotechnology products for over 10 years for companies such as SRU Biosystems, developing nano-scale devices for biodetection, ACLARA, making miniaturized diagnostics or “lab on a chip” and Larsen & Toubro India, polymer processing. Before joining NanoPaper, Dr. Jogikalmath was recruited to lead polymer chemistry and linker development at SRU Biosystems. Dr. Jogikalmath has authored numerous patents and journal publications in surface chemistry of polymers and biomaterials. Dr. Jogikalmath received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah). |
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Martha Groves, Chief Financial Officer Ms. Groves has over 25 years of experience in finance and operations, and over the past 10 years has served as the chief financial executive in a number of venture-backed technology startups. Before joining Dr. Soane, she served as CFO for Openera Technologies, a global mobile software company; prior to that, she was CFO for SnowShore Networks, a VoIP telecom equipment company. Before joining SnowShore, Ms. Groves was operations director for CRVelocity, the incubator arm for Charles River Ventures’ portfolio companies. She also served as the Vice President of Finance for Novera Software, a venture-backed software company. In the early part of her career, Ms. Groves held various positions in finance and management at Analog Devices, Sun Microsystems, and AT&T. Ms. Groves holds an A.B. in Chemistry from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College. |
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M. Sharon Webb, MD, PhD, Vice President Intellectual Property Dr. Webb has been helping companies and investors with IP strategies for over ten years, focusing on investor-side diligence and company-side portfolio development and technology transfer. Before joining Dr. Soane, she was Of Counsel for Vantage Counsel LLC in Honolulu. Previously, Dr. Webb was a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston MA. Before entering the legal field, Dr. Webb was a board-certified surgeon, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, with teaching positions at Harvard, Tufts and the University of Pennsylvania. She received her M.D. degree from Duke, her Ph.D. from Yale, and her J.D. from Harvard. |