expert team
clinical credibility x consumer sensibility
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Charles Tapp
Chief Executive Officer
Mars, Inc. & Koch alum
Seasoned operator & investor building at the intersection of consumer, healthcare & tech
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Andy James
Chief Marketing Officer
Mars, Inc. & Wrigley alum
Built Mars’ global eCommerce to >$4B/Sales. Led global Amazon partnership for Mars
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Cynthia Doerr, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Essex Woodlands, Nebraska & Baylor College of Medicine alum
Pediatrician, infectious disease expert and healthcare VC.
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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
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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
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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).
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.