Sankar Marichamy has excelled in his ability to isolate, grow and study novel microbes from the most extreme conditions on the planet . He worked on medical biotechnology environmental biotechnology, food and agricultural biotechnology and general microbiology. His teaching and research was conducted at Lund Univ. Sweden, UC Santa Barbara and Harvard.
Sankar has a Doctorate in Microbial Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Shyam Pakala has a unique mix of technical and business experience. Shyam was part of the internal venture organization at Medtronic managing a cumulative investment of $100M and has extensive experience in evaluating and managing the execution of early stage projects. He has 20+ years of experience and interest developing devices and therapies. Shyam has a PhD in Immunology and an MBA

Alan Eisenberg is a seasoned senior executive with extensive sales, marketing and operations management experience. He was President of a 120 person manufacturer. He held senior positions in for venture capital portfolio companies and was a Strategy Consultant with Bain and Co.
He has a BS in Physics from Stony Brook University and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar

Dave Bertoni is an entrepreneur with extensive senior management, product marketing and international product introduction experience. Mr. Bertoni founded a medical technology services firm, MarketSp@ce, in 2001, which assists biomedical technology and high tech firms bring advanced technologies to market. Dave has brought dozens of technical products to market – worldwide and successfully launched two technology start-ups.

Richard Gabriel has 30+ years of pharmaceutical industry product discovery and management. He has expertise in cGMP process scale up and compliance, from basic scale-up to large scale manufacturing operations for specialty chemicals. He has managed over 60+ development projects from discovery to approval and transfer, represented by 4 approved drugs in Cancer and Infectious Disease.