Donald W. Grimm
Director
Donald Grimm retired from Eli Lilly & Company, a research-based pharmaceutical company, in December 1993 after 23 years of service. Mr. Grimm held various executive positions at Lilly. Following these assignments, Mr. Grimm was President and CEO of Hybritech, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lilly. Since June 1995 he has served as Chairman and President of Strategic Design, LLC, a strategic planning and consulting company. Mr. Grimm has been a director of Hamilton BioVentures, LLC, a $100 million fund focused primarily on life sciences, since August 2001. In addition, he is currently a director of several private life science companies. Mr. Grimm has been on the board of Life Technologies for approximately 12 years. During that time period Life Technologies grew from $30 million in revenues company to their current annual revenue of over $3 billion. Mr. Grimm received his B.S. in pharmacy and his M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Richard L. Intrater
Director
Mr. Intrater has been in the investment banking and financial services industry for over 30 years. He is the President & CEO of Long-Term Solutions, a Multi-Family Office he founded in 2005 to assist multi-generational families of significant net worth with financial, investment, philanthropic and administrative oversight. He also oversees LTS Capital Partner I and II which provides private equity investment capital to companies primarily in the clean technology field. His previous experience includes a role as board member and managing director of Sand Hill Advisors and the founder of Sutter Street Capital Management. Mr. Intrater spent 13 years as Senior Vice President of Lehman Brothers in New York and San Francisco and began his career as a financial analyst for the U.S. Export Import Bank in Washington, D.C. Mr. Intrater is the Founding and past Chairman of the Board of Directors, KIPP Bay Area Schools, past President of the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco, former National Trustee of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, former Board Member of the Coyote Point Museum of Environmental Education and Former Board Member of the Family Service Agency of San Mateo County. He is also a member of the board of directors of Viryd Technologies. Mr. Intrater graduated with a BA in finance at the University of Arizona and continued graduate work in International Studies at the University of Missouri.
Gary E. Jacobs
Director
Gary Jacobs is the Managing Director of Jacobs Investment Company, which participates in real estate development and other investment activities throughout the United States and abroad. In addition, he has multi-million dollar investments in several other venture capital funds. He also owns and operates a professional minor league baseball team, the Lake Elsinore Storm, affiliated with the San Diego Padres. Mr. Jacobs serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for High Tech High, a public charter high school, Vice-Chair of the Jewish Community Center Association Continental Board and is a board member of the Lawrence Family JCC and the UCSD Board of Overseers. Mr. Jacobs's other philanthropic work includes being a past president of the United Jewish Federation of San Diego County. Additionally, Mr. Jacobs and his wife created and funded the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs International Teen Leadership Institute which promotes Muslim / Jewish understanding. Prior to his current investment and philanthropic activities, Mr. Jacobs worked as a software engineer and senior education specialist at QUALCOMM, Inc. Mr. Jacobs holds a B.A. in Management Science from the University of California at San Diego.
Debora LaBudde
Director
Ms. LaBudde is managing general partner of Envoi Ventures, a venture capital fund which makes investments in seed and early stage life science and technology/IT companies. The firm co-invests with other leading venture firms and its principals often take an active role with companies prior to and following an investment. Earlier in her career, Ms. LaBudde was Director of Business Development for Bausch & Lomb, Inc. where she was involved in over a dozen successful M&A and licensing transactions representing more than $1.5 billion of aggregate value for the company. Ms. LaBudde is also an advisor and served as interim CEO of a stealth biotech company focused on inflammatory diseases assisting the company with licensing university technology, building the company strategy and raising a seed funding round with top tier investors in December 2010. She is also currently an advisor to Everloop, a COPPA-compliant social media platform and was previously on the Board of Directors of Techrigy, Inc. a social media monitoring company (acquired by Alterian Ltd in 7/09). She received an MBA and BA in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, from the William E. Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester.
Paul K. Nichols, Jr.
Executive Chairman
Paul Nichols has 32 years experience with rapidly growing companies in the medical device industry, with the past 24 as an executive and entrepreneur in the musculoskeletal sector. Between 1995 and 2005 he founded three orthopedic surgery technology companies, all yielding exceptional investor returns at exit. Mr. Nichols currently serves as a director of several early stage medical technology companies and provides management consulting services to growth stage businesses.
Gary L. Weiss
Director
Gary Weiss, founder of Weiss Group, LLC, has more than 30 years of experience in building and
managing technology businesses. The Weiss Group, LLC specializes in assisting growth companies by
providing management, advisory, financing and executive search services. Mr. Weiss served as President and
CEO of Source Services, a search and recruiting business that grew from $3 million to $80 million in
sales while building 140 offices across the U.S. and Canada, with 480 search professionals. Prior to
joining Source Services, he held various positions at Periphonics (an Exxon Enterprises Company) and
IBM.
Mr. Weiss
received his B.S. in Marketing from the University of Arizona.
Adam R. Wallen
Director, President and Chief Executive Officer