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Board of Directors:

Troy C. Lapsys, CEO

Troy Lapsys has over 15 years of experience creating successful start-up high-technology businesses in diverse industries including enterprise software, e-commerce, and telecommunications as CEO or CTO. At New Mexico Software as President of the Server Division, he reinitiated the enterprise division, generating a distribution and reseller network for enterprise document management software. Prior to New Mexico Software, he served as VP of Business Development for NextDay Networks, Inc., a virtual distributor of computer and electronics products, increasing revenue by 33% in his first nine months. Founding and serving as CEO for Danu Technology, Inc., a company offering VoIP and ISP services in the Philippines, he grew revenue to $2 million per year in eighteen months. He also has held the position of CIO for Device Dynamics, Inc., a global semiconductor manufacturing outsource company. As Chief Technology Officer with eMedius, Inc., he led an international development team of more than 100 engineers to design the first demand chain management platform for OEM sourcing of semiconductor products. Lapsys holds a B.A. from Stanford University and is a Masters in Software Engineering candidate from the Rabb School at Brandeis University.

Jacob Berman, COO

Jacob Berman possesses more than 30 years of experience with both start-ups and multinational companies in the fields of agriculture, commodity trading (domestic and international), export facility management, and business development in the U.S., Latin America, Africa and Asia. As Vice President/General Manager of AGRI Export, a subsidiary of AGRI Industries, Mr. Berman acquired a bankrupt port facility leading it to profitability within two years on the Houston Ship Channel. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Polytex Fibers, a polypropylene bag manufacturer in Houston, he captured over 70% of U.S. market share in less than one year. Mr. Berman’s significant knowledge of international commodity trading led to his position as Vice President in charge of establishing bonded warehousing services and financing to farming communities in Latin America for Lloyds International Trading, a division of the United Kingdom's Lloyd's Bank. In 1988 he founded Uni-Trade Inc. which assessed and turned around ailing businesses in the U.S. and developing world countries. In 1994, Mr. Berman founded PIASI (Philippines International Audiotext Services, Inc.), the first call center in the Philippines where he oversaw the implementation of large-scale telecommunications systems and hired, trained, and managed a team of over 200 employees. In 1997, Mr. Berman established Toscana Farms, Inc., the first Hydroponics vegetable farming enterprise in the Philippines. Since returning to the U.S., Mr. Berman has served as the VP of Business Development for MediaBound, LLC, a developer of software for just-in-time operations and logistics. Mr. Berman received his Masters in Business Administration in International Management, with honors, from Thunderbird School of Global Management, and his B.S. in Business Administration from California State University, L.A.

Mark Benak, Board Member

Mark Benak is a technologist and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in engineering, business development, and company building. He currently serves as CFO for Asset Performance Technologies, Inc., commercializing a unique reliability improvement software offering for the energy industry. Prior to joining APT, Mr. Benak completed a variety of consulting projects through his own company Southwest Solutions House LLC in the areas of economic development in New Mexico, business management, and new and ongoing market validation for medical technologies. Prior to Southwest, from 1993 to 2003, Mr. Benak was part of a team that founded and operated InLight Solutions, Inc., an Albuquerque based medical technology startup whose mission is to provide optical solutions for life sciences applications. As Director of New Business, he negotiated with strategic partners for commercialization of an in vitro cervical cancer screening device and an in vivo alcohol measurement device. Before InLight, Mr. Benak was a staff scientist at the institute for fluid mechanics at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. Prior to LSTM, Mr. Benak was a research engineer with Daimler-Benz AG in Germany. Mr. Benak received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in mechanical engineering

Science Board of Advisors:

Dr. Scott Miller

Scott Miller, Irenee duPont Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, studies methods for complex molecule synthesis. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at Harvard University, completing a Ph.D. in 1994. Subsequently, he traveled to the California Institute of Technology where he was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow until 1996. For the following decade, he was a member of the faculty at Boston College, until joining the faculty at Yale University in 2006. Professor Miller's research program focuses on problems in asymmetric catalysis. His group employs strategies that include catalyst design, the development of combinatorial techniques for catalyst screening, and the application of these approaches to the preparation of biologically active agents. More information is available at: http://www.chem.yale.edu/faculty/miller.html

Dr. Stephen Benkovic

Dr. Benkovic holds the Eberly Chair in Chemistry at Pennsylvania State University, and is recognized as one of the top enzyme scientists worldwide, having received the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, NIH Career Development Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, the Gowland Hopkins Award, the Repligen Award for Chemistry of Biological Processes, the Alfred Bader Award, the Chemical Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Chemists, and the Christian B. Afinsen Award. In addition, he has been elected to memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. His expertise in cellulase catalytic functions provides the company with the ability to direct the improvements within the synthetic enzyme structures to more rapidly achieve performance desires. Dr. Benkovic received his B.S. degree in Chemistry and A.B. degree in English Literature from Lehigh University, and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Cornell University.

Dr. Hao Yan

Dr. Yan is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University, heading up the Yan Lab at the Biodesign Institute at ASU. His expertise in programmed design and assembly of biologically inspired nanomaterials provides Incitor with the structural foundation of bionanolattice design and production. Dr. Yan has been awarded multiple Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the Arizona Technology Enterprise Innovator of Tomorrow Award, and was selected by ASU President Michael Crow as a Promotion and Tenure Faculty Exemplar, among other honors. Dr. Yan holds his Ph.D. in Chemistry from New York University, having completed his B.S. in Chemistry from Shandong University in Jinan, China.

Dr. Michael Gretz

Dr. Gretz is a Professor of Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan Technological University and leads the Algal Extracellular Polymers and Biocomposites research group at MTU. His experience spans algal extracellular matrices, biogenesis, the cell and molecular biology of polysaccharide synthesis, and the evolution of land plant extracellular matrices to provide Incitor with a solid understanding of the biomass structures showing potential for fuel use. Dr. Gretz has published over thirty peer reviewed papers, held board positions in multiple phycology related professional organizations, has served as a grant reviewer for over ten governmental agencies, and is widely respected as the expert in cellular structures. He holds his Ph.D. in Botany and Plant Chemistry from Arizona State University, and a B.S. from Central Michigan University in Chemistry and Biology.

Dr. Ross Walker

Dr. Walker serves as an Assistant Research Professor at the University of California, San Diego and as biosciences lead of the Scientific Applications Computing group at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. As a principal author of the AMBER Molecular Dynamics Software and with career long experience in modeling enzymes Dr. Walker provides Incitor with the expertise required to direct the generation of new synthetic enzyme designs. His awards and honors include a nomination for Royal Society of Chemistry Student of the Year, the Accelrys Speaker Award for MGMS Young Modellers, and the SmithKline Beecham prize for Practical Physical Chemistry, among others. He is a reviewer for numerous leading U.S. and international scientific journals and serves on numerous U.S. Government review panels including the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Resource Allocations Committee. Dr. Walker holds a Ph.D. and Diploma of Imperial College in Computational Chemistry, a Masters in Science degree in Chemistry from the UK's Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine as well as an associateship of the Royal College of Science. Prior to joining UCSD Dr. Walker worked as an applications scientist and postdoctoral research scholar at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA.