Adarza BioSystems, Inc. CEO and leadership

Bryan Witherbee is a Volunteer at Ronald McDonald House Charities of St Louis and President/CEO at Adarza BioSystems Inc and is based in Greater St. Louis Area.

Rand Henke is an Adarza founder and has served as the CEO since the company was founded in 2008. Rand was instrumental in organizing Adarza while serving as an Entrepreneur in Residence at High Tech Rochester. He successfully secured a license for Adarza’s core technology from the University of Rochester Medial Center, and played the lead role in Adarza’s business development that included building a highly experienced leadership team, product commercialization, and funding through non-dilutive government grants and industry contracts, and recently through Series-A financing. Dr. Henke has a very broad and successful career that has included numerous appointments in government R&D at the Comparative Animal Research Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, in economic development and technology accelerators at the Tennessee Center for Research and Development and High tech Rochester in Rochester, NY and in graduate university faculty positions at the University of Tennessee. His professional business experiences have spanned executive assignments in early stage to growth stage technology, service and manufacturing businesses including Phyton Technologies, a plant biotechnology company, and Container Technologies Industries, a specialty container manufacturing company for the nuclear industry. In all of these assignments Dr. Henke’s interests, roles and accomplishments focused on translating technical innovation and entrepreneurship to new business formation and commercial solutions. Rand has a B.S. in biology from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and genetics from Miami University.

Linda Meeh is a Chief Commercial Officer at ADARZA BIOSYSTEMS INC and is based in Greater St. Louis Area. She has worked as Director, Strategic Forecasting at The Mattson Jack Group; Manager, Research and Development at bioMérieux; and Director, Strategic Marketing at Merck. Linda works or has worked as Director, Strategic Marketing and Client Services at Tessellon. She attended Greenville College between 1982 and 1986 and WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY between 1986 and 1991.

Jon Schmuke is a Chief Scientific Officer at ADARZA BIOSYSTEMS INC and is based in St. Louis, Missouri. He has worked as Senior Research Investigator at Monsanto (Searle) Company, Vector Technology Platform Lead at Monsanto, and TCM Chairperson at Monsanto. Jon attended University of Missouri-Columbia between 1984 and 1988.

Rand Henke is an Adarza founder and has served as the CEO since the company was founded in 2008. Rand was instrumental in organizing Adarza while serving as an Entrepreneur in Residence at High Tech Rochester. He successfully secured a license for Adarza’s core technology from the University of Rochester Medial Center, and played the lead role in Adarza’s business development that included building a highly experienced leadership team, product commercialization, and funding through non-dilutive government grants and industry contracts, and recently through Series-A financing. Dr. Henke has a very broad and successful career that has included numerous appointments in government R&D at the Comparative Animal Research Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, in economic development and technology accelerators at the Tennessee Center for Research and Development and High tech Rochester in Rochester, NY and in graduate university faculty positions at the University of Tennessee. His professional business experiences have spanned executive assignments in early stage to growth stage technology, service and manufacturing businesses including Phyton Technologies, a plant biotechnology company, and Container Technologies Industries, a specialty container manufacturing company for the nuclear industry. In all of these assignments Dr. Henke’s interests, roles and accomplishments focused on translating technical innovation and entrepreneurship to new business formation and commercial solutions. Rand has a B.S. in biology from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and genetics from Miami University.