FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics CEO and leadership

Mr. Palay is one of our founders and has served as Chairman of the Board and as Chief Executive Officer since 2007. Mr. Palay previously served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of each of our predecessors from their founding until 2008. He also co-founded NimbleGen Systems, Inc., a molecular biology tools company, and served as its chairman of the board from 1999 to 2007 and as its chief executive officer from 1999 to 2000. Since their inception, Mr. Palay has served as a manager of the general partner or manager of each of the various Tactics II entities, which are private investment vehicles and are among our principal shareholders. He received a A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, an M.M. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law. We selected Mr. Palay to serve on our board of directors due to his in-depth understanding of our business and operating experience with business startups.

Dr. Thomson is one of our founders and has served as our Chief Scientific Officer and as a member of our board of directors since 2007. He received a VMD and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has served as the Director of Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research since 2008 and as the John D. MacArthur Professor of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2003. Dr. Thomson’s derivation of human ES cells was featured as Science Magazine’s “Scientific Breakthrough of the year” in 1999, and work from Dr. Thomson’s laboratory has been cited in TIME Magazine's “Top 10 Discoveries of the Year” on three separate occasions, including the isolation of human ES cells (1998, #1), the isolation of human iPS cells (2007, #1) and the collaborative mapping of the human epigenome (2009, #2). He was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine’s “America’s Best in Science and Medicine” in 2001, and in 2007 was named one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.” Dr. Thomson has published over 150 scientific, peer-reviewed papers and has been an inventor on 30 issued patents. We selected Dr. Thomson to serve on our board of directors due to his understanding of our business and his seminal work and international recognition in the stem cell field.

David S. Snyder brings to Invenra more than 25 years of experience as the CFO of public and high-growth companies. Mr. Snyder currently serves as the CFO of DisperSol Technologies, LLC and its wholly-owned subsidiary Austhera BioSciences, Inc. DisperSol and Austhera are currently advancing four late-stage, small molecule drugs through the clinic and are using their proprietary KinetiSol platform to build a pipeline of NCEs. Prior to joining DisperSol/Austhera, Mr. Snyder was the CFO of Exicure Inc. (Nasdaq: XCUR) a company developing nucleic acid therapeutics, and prior to that, was the CFO of Cellular Dynamics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICEL) a company developing iPSC-based stem cell tools and primary cell therapeutics. Mr. Snyder also previously served as Senior Vice President of Finance, Site Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Roche NimbleGen. Prior, Mr. Snyder was CFO of companies in real estate, software, and manufacturing. He received his BA summa cum laude from Ottawa University and his MBA with high honors from the Harvard Business School, where he was designated a George Fisher Baker Scholar.

Mr. Seay has served as our Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since 2007. Representing WARF from 1985 to 2005, Mr. Seay successfully established its human embryonic stem cell intellectual property portfolio. Mr. Seay has served on the board of directors of Epic Systems Corporation since 1983 and BellBrook Laboratories LLC since 2001. Prior to joining our company, from 1989 to 2005, he advised biotechnology companies and worked on significant technologies at Quarles and Brady LLP, specializing in intellectual property law. Mr. Seay earned a B.S. from Cornell University and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School.

Mr. Palay is one of our founders and has served as Chairman of the Board and as Chief Executive Officer since 2007. Mr. Palay previously served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of each of our predecessors from their founding until 2008. He also co-founded NimbleGen Systems, Inc., a molecular biology tools company, and served as its chairman of the board from 1999 to 2007 and as its chief executive officer from 1999 to 2000. Since their inception, Mr. Palay has served as a manager of the general partner or manager of each of the various Tactics II entities, which are private investment vehicles and are among our principal shareholders. He received a A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, an M.M. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law. We selected Mr. Palay to serve on our board of directors due to his in-depth understanding of our business and operating experience with business startups.

Dr. Thomson is one of our founders and has served as our Chief Scientific Officer and as a member of our board of directors since 2007. He received a VMD and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has served as the Director of Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research since 2008 and as the John D. MacArthur Professor of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2003. Dr. Thomson’s derivation of human ES cells was featured as Science Magazine’s “Scientific Breakthrough of the year” in 1999, and work from Dr. Thomson’s laboratory has been cited in TIME Magazine's “Top 10 Discoveries of the Year” on three separate occasions, including the isolation of human ES cells (1998, #1), the isolation of human iPS cells (2007, #1) and the collaborative mapping of the human epigenome (2009, #2). He was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine’s “America’s Best in Science and Medicine” in 2001, and in 2007 was named one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.” Dr. Thomson has published over 150 scientific, peer-reviewed papers and has been an inventor on 30 issued patents. We selected Dr. Thomson to serve on our board of directors due to his understanding of our business and his seminal work and international recognition in the stem cell field.