Team
Management and Science Team
Brett Malone, Ph.D., President
Dr. Malone joined as V.P. Business Development in 2009, and was named President in January 2012. He holds BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Tech. He founded Phoenix Integration, Inc. in 1996 and served as CEO through 2006, commercializing numerous software technologies for the defense industry. He next served as Chief Information Officer and then Chief Operating Office of Intrexon, a biotech firm focused on high-throughput screening of gene expression. As part of the executive management team, he assisted in growing the company to 140, helped procure $58M in venture financing, and led technology development and commercialization efforts for Intrexon’s bioinformatics software.
Joshua Bryson, Ph.D., Principal Scientist
Dr. Bryson joined Techulon on September 1, 2009. He holds BS and MS degrees in Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Virginia Tech. His research interests include synthesis and biological characterization of novel metal chelating polymers for use as drug carriers, and development of efficient macromolecule-based MRI contrast agents. His research advisor was Dr. Theresa Reineke. Josh Co-founded and was President of the University of Cincinnati Synthesis Club and was a volunteer for the UC Chemistry Outreach for underprivileged children. He received the Thomas Cameroon Award for Excellence in Freshman Instruction, the Henry Hochstetter Award for Excellence in Organic Instruction, was invited to present to the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium at the 235th ACS Meeting, and received the Chevron-Phillips Chemical Professional Excellence Award. He has three research publications, three conference reprints, and participated in fifteen conference presentations.
Board of Directors
Dr. Klaus Wiemer, Chairman
Klaus holds BS and MS degrees in Physics from the University of Texas and a PhD in physics from Virginia Tech. He spent essentially his entire professional career in the microelectronics industry, starting at Texas Instruments in 1969. From 1987 to 1991 he was the first COO and President of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in Hsin Chu, Taiwan, the world’s first computer chip contract manufacturing company. (Taiwan Semiconductor is traded at the Taipei stock exchange and on Nasdaq under the symbol TSM). In 1991 he joined Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing of Singapore as President to lead the successful turn-around. He has managed two additional chip start-ups, one in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, and another one in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. He has been a director of several technology companies in the US as well as in Asia and Europe. He has recently joined the board of UTAC Ltd, a chip assembly and test company in Singapore. Klaus has been a member of the Virginia Tech Department of Physics Advisory Council and is a member of the College of Science Dean’s Roundtable. He holds a similar position at the University of Texas in El Paso.
Ms. Marni Byrum, Director and Secretary
Mr. Willis Blackwood, Director
Ms. Patricia Caldwell, Director
Mr. David Henderson, Director
Science Advisory Board
Our Science Advisory Board meets with management twice each year to provide a review of new technologies and potential products.
Randy Heflin, Ph.D.; Professor of Physics; Associate Director of Center for Self-Assembled Nanostructures and Devices (CSAND); Associate Editor of International Journal of Nanoscience
Tim Long, Ph.D.; Associate Director of Interdisciplinary Research and Education, Virginia Tech, Fralin Life Science Institute, Blacksburg, VA; Professor of Chemistry
Robert B. Moore, Ph.D.; Professor of Chemistry
Jim McGrath, Ph.D., NAE; University Distinguished Professor, Chemistry; Ethyl Chair; Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering
Theresa Reineke, Ph.D.; Associate Professor of Chemistry; 2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
S. Richard Turner, Ph.D.; Director Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute; Research Professor Chemistry; Americas Editor Chemistry and Synthesis Polymer
Garth Wilkes, Ph.D.; Emeritus University Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering