expert team

clinical credibility x consumer sensibility

  • Charles Tapp

    Chief Executive Officer

    Mars, Inc. & Koch alum

    Seasoned operator & investor building at the intersection of consumer, healthcare & tech

  • Andy James

    Chief Marketing Officer

    Mars, Inc. & Wrigley alum

    Built Mars’ global eCommerce to >$4B/Sales. Led global Amazon partnership for Mars

  • Cynthia Doerr, MD

    Chief Medical Officer

    Essex Woodlands, Nebraska & Baylor College of Medicine alum

    Pediatrician, infectious disease expert and healthcare VC.

  • Immanuel Thangaraj

    Co-Founder & Board Chair

    GP @ Park Lane Ventures. ARCH Venture Partners, Essex Woodlands & 2X U Chicago alum

    Elite Healthcare investor. Backed 10 companies with exits >$300MM; 14 of 17 profitably

  • Gilbert R. Gonzales, MD

    Co-Founder & Board Member

    University of Arizona & Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center & Mayo Clinic alum.

    Serial entrepreneur & inventor. Founded/co-founded Prism Pharma, Serene & Exubrion. >300 publications and patents

  • Michael Goldblatt, JD PhD

    Scientific Advisor & Board Member

    University of California-Davis & Reed College alum

    Former Director @ DARPA & CTO @ McDonalds & CEO @ Functional Genetics (sold to Elanco).

  • Jeff Nugent

    Marketing Advisor & Board Member

    Former CEO @ Neutrogena, Revlon & Sientra.

    Acquired & built Neutrogena ($200M > $1B) for J&J, now a >$3B Consumer Health brand

  • Peter Vitulli

    Board Member & Marketing Advisor

    Former CEO Gatorade, Amerifit, DNA Diagnostics Center.

    Acquired & built Gatorade to >$1B brand for Quaker pre-$13.4B PepsiCo exit.

  • Nigel Stevenson

    Nigel Stevenson

    Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor

    Serial entrepreneur, nuclear physicist, & inventor. Founder/member of senior management of TcNET, LLC, Trace Life Sciences, Theragenics. >100 publications and patents.

  • Bruce Patterson, MD

    Scientific Advisor

    University of Michigan, Northwestern & Stanford alum.

    Virologist whose seminal Science paper (‘93) solved HIV and is tackling Long-COVID as CEO @ IncellDx.

  • John Patton, PhD

    Drug Delivery Advisor

    Genentech, Inhale / Nektar Therapeutics, Harvard, UCSD & Georgia alum

    Pioneer in non-traditional intranasal drug delivery, including inhaled insulin. >100 publications & >40 patents.

  • Joan E Nichols, PhD

    Scientific Collaborator

    Professor; Cellular Therapeutics and Organ Bioengineering, HMRI

    Former Associate Director, UTMB Galveston National Lab. Global expert in respiratory pathogens.