Management Team
Kenneth Slepicka, our chief executive officer, has an MBA from the JL Kellogg School
of Management, Northwestern University. Mr. Slepicka has more than twenty years
experience in the financial industry, most notably as a director of several public
companies as well as a senior consultant/advisor to several start-
Dr. Thomas Piccariello, our president and chief science officer, has a B.S. in biology
and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(Virginia Tech). He has experience in the fields of synthetic chemistry, metallurgy,
electrochemistry, plant enzymology, chemical manufacturing and pharmacology. In addition
to serving as the lead scientist for two pharmaceutical start-
Stanley Wise, our vice president operations, has a B.A. from the University of California
at San Diego, and an MBA from the R.B. Pamplin College of Business; Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. He has over 20 years experience in healthcare both as a research scientist
and as a marketing professional with Insmed Pharmaceuticals and Bio-
John Tinkham, our general counsel and vice president of development, graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and from Northwestern University with a B.A. in economics.
Dr. John Price, our senior research scientist, has a B.S. in chemical engineering from Washington University and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Iowa State University. Dr. Price has over 15 years of discovery and development experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.