Management Team

David Cooper
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

David Minh
Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Illinois Tech

Joseph DePaolo-Boisvert
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer Doctoral Candidate, Illinois Tech

Jim Tufts
Co-Founder, Chief Information Officer Doctoral Candidate, Illinois Tech

Neilin Cooper
Co-Founder, Chief Financial Officer Masters of Business Administration, Finance

Jack Niekrasz
Business Development
Advisory Board
Mike Flavin
Maryam Saleh
CEO, Shamrock Structures Managing Director, Flavin Ventures
Executive Director of the Kaplan Institute for Entrepreneurship, Illinois Tech
Cathleen Dohrn
Rachel Strick
Independent Consultant, Medical Strategy
VP Business Development and Acquisitions Immunology, AbbVie
Shyam Khatau
Steve Ackerman
VP of Life Sciences, Tempus AI
Professor of Biochemisty and Molecular Genetics, UIC CSO, EnteroTrack Co-Founder, Banta Pharmaceuticals
Shyam Saladi
Vadim Gaponenko
Founder and Lead Scientist, Neelyx Labs
Professor of Biochemisty and Molecular Genetics, UIC Co-Founder, Banta Pharmaceuticals