Management

Executive Chairman and CEO

Garrett Gruener

Co-Founder, Director, Alta Partners
Mr. Gruener is a co-founder of Alta Partners, and was formerly a Partner at Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. He has more than two decades of experience in software development, systems engineering and corporate development. He founded Virtual Microsystems, a communications software company that was later merged with a larger corporation, and Ask Jeeves, a leading Internet search engine. A specialist in information technology, Mr. Gruener is on the boards of directors of several companies, including Ask Jeeves and Nanōmix. He earned a Masters Degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, San Diego, both in political science with a focus on technology policy.

Board Member

Marvin L. Cohen, Ph.D.

Co-Founder, Nanōmix
Professor Cohen is a preeminent figure in the field of theoretical con- densed matter physics. He is a founding scientist of Nanōmix and also serves as a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the recipient of numerous scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize.

Board Member

Guy P. Nohra

Co-founder, Managing Director, Alta Partners
Mr. Nohra is a co-founder and managing director of Alta Partners, and was also a partner at Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. He has been involved in the funding and development of notable medical technology and life science companies, including Cutera, Innerdyne, R2 Technology, deCODE genetics, and Vesica. Previously, Mr. Nohra was Product Manager of Medical Products with Security Pacific Trading Corp., responsible for a multi-million dollar product line. He serves on the boards of several companies, including AcelRx, ATS Medical, Carbylan Biosurgery, Coapt Systems, Paracor Medical, PneumRx and Vertiflex, and is the Chairman of the Board of USGI Medical. He also serves on the board of the Medical Device Manufacturing Association and is the President of the Silicon Valley chapter of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Stanford University.

Board Member, Audit Committee Chairperson

Gregory Schiffman

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Dendreon Corporation
Mr. Schiffman was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Affymetrix. Before that he was the Vice President Controller at Applied BioSystems and managed their global financial operations. He headed up a variety of global assignments at Hewlett Packard including international finance projects in Europe and Asia, and a U.S. manufacturing operation. He also worked for IBM in several financial positions. He serves on the board of Xenogen Corp., a leading biotechnology company offering an integrated suite of biophotonic real-time in vivo imaging and transgenic technologies. Mr. Schiffman received an M.B.A. from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Board Advisor

Alex Zettl, Ph.D.

Nanōmix Co-Founder; Professor, Department of Physics, University of
California, Berkeley
Professor Zettl is a founding scientist of Nanōmix Inc. and also leads the Superconductivity and the sp2 Nanoscience Programs at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a renowned expert on condensed-matter experimental physicists, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Professor Zettl's primary expertise is in the synthesis and characterization of novel materials and nanostructures.