Dr. George Whitesides
Chairman and Head of Scientific Advisory Board

Currently the Woodford L. and Ann A Flowers University Professor at Harvard University, Dr. George Whitesides joined Harvard’s Department of Chemistry in 1982 and served as Department Chairman from 1986 to 1989. Prior to joining Harvard, he was a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1982. His present research interests include materials science, biophysics, surface science, polyvalency, microfluidics, optics, self-assembly, microfabrication, nanotechnology, and cell surface biochemistry.

Dr. Whitesides has held advisory positions on the National Research Council, National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the American Philosophical Society, among other organizations. He has received dozens of honors, including the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Pure Chemistry (1975), the Arthur C. Cope Award (1995), the DARPA Award for Significant Technical Achievement (1996), the National Medal of Science (1998), the Von Hippel Award (2000), the Dan David Award (2005), the Welch Award (2005), and the Priestley Award (2007).

Dr. Whitesides is a co-founder of companies with a combined market capitalization of over $20 billion. In the early 80s, he co-founded biotechnology company Genzyme, which remains one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies; in 1993 he co-founded GelTex, which was acquired by Genzyme for $1.2 billion; and in 1996, he co-founded Theravance, which went public in 2004 and currently has a $1.1B market capitalization. Professor Whitesides’ more recent ventures include Surface Logix and WMR Biomedical.

George M. Whitesides was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1960 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1964.

Dr. Carmichael Roberts
Vice Chairman

Dr. Carmichael Roberts is a long-time commercial and scientific collaborator of Dr. George Whitesides at Harvard University. In 1999, Dr. Roberts and Dr. Whitesides co-founded Surface Logix, a drug optimization company, and more recently, WMR Biomedical, a medical device company. Dr. Roberts has served in an executive capacity for both of these companies.

Before starting his career as an entrepreneur, Dr. Roberts worked in business development at GelTex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he contributed to the design of business development strategies for the company’s pre-clinical product line aimed at fighting infectious disease and obesity. Prior to GelTex, Dr. Roberts was responsible for new product and business development at Sentry Products, a life science venture wholly owned by Union Carbide Corporation (now Dow Chemical). While at Sentry Products, Dr. Roberts was an instrumental member of a group that developed several chemical-based technologies used in launching products like Pfizer’s Procardia XL and Boston Scientific’s balloon catheters.

Dr. Roberts serves on the advisory boards for MIT’s Deshpande Center for Innovation, Harvard’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, and Dukes’ School of Biomedical Engineering. In 1999, he was named by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine as one of the world’s top 100 young entrepreneurs.

Born in Queens, New York, Dr. Roberts received his B.S. and Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Duke University and was a National Science Foundation Fellow at Harvard University’s Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. He also earned an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Myer Berlow
CEO and Vice Chairman

Myer Berlow is a sales and marketing executive with 30 years of experience in global markets. Prior to co-founding Nano-Terra, Mr. Berlow was President for Global Marketing Solutions, AOL Time Warner, where he oversaw account services, operations, and the number one interactive marketing sales force in the industry.

Mr. Berlow also directed Interactive Marketing sales across all America Online, Inc. brands and services, including: America Online, CompuServe, AOL.COM, Digital City, ICQ, Netscape Netcenter, AOL Moviefone and Spinner.com. Mr. Berlow grew advertising and commerce revenues to a run-rate of $3 billion. Mr. Berlow joined AOL in 1995 as Vice President for National Accounts, with responsibility for the development of programming and business models for Time Warner, Hachette, Disney, ABC, Times Mirror and Viacom. He has 25 years of experience in the advertising industry, working at such agencies as McCann-Erickson; Benton and Bowles; FCB; Beber Silverstein; and Griffin Bacal.

Mr. Berlow began his career in media planning, and went on to TV programming and network TV buying, becoming Media Director of FCB at the age of 29. Mr. Berlow received his degree in Religion and Political Science from Kenyon College.

Ueli Morant
President

Ueli Morant is a sales and marketing executive with 30 years experience in global markets. Prior to co-founding Nano-Terra, he was a Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Philips Consumer Electronics Company, where he was responsible for worldwide business development and alliance management. Prior to Philips, Mr. Morant was Vice President Corporate Marketing for the IBM Corporation in Europe under the leadership of Lou Gerstner. He was also a member of the Executive Committee.

Prior to IBM and Philips, Mr. Morant worked in New York as an Executive Vice President for BBDO Advertising and the Ted Bates Company, amongst others, where he held responsibilities for general management, international network development and account management for global companies such as Bayer, Dow Brands, American Cyanamid, Colgate Palmolive and M&M Mars Foods.

Born in Switzerland, Mr. Morant graduated from the Berne School of Economics in 1972 and was a Lieutenant in a Swiss Tank Corps. He became an American Citizen in 1983.