Richard serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board for Valtari Bio. Richard is a seasoned biotechnology and venture capital executive. He has served as Director of Information at Fusion Ventures, a venture capital firm where he led technology evaluation and due diligence. He then accepted the Chief Operating Officer position with ZenBio, a regenerative(…)
Valerie serves as Chief Operating Officer & President for Valtari Bio. Ms. Gionis has served a broad range of leadership roles in multiple disciplines, including marketing, operations, and grant administration. As most of her career has been spent with small innovation firms, in technology and biotechnology spaces, the challenges she faced demanded cross-functional expertise and an(…)
Taura L. Barr Ph.D., RN, FAHA is Chief Science Officer at Valtari Bio Inc. and a visiting Professor at Duke University School of Nursing. Prior to Valtari Bio, Dr. Barr was an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and Emergency Medicine at West Virginia University. She received her BSN and Ph.D. from the University(…)
Michael Green is Chair of the West Virginia Growth Investment Fund and Managing Director of Mountain State Capital; both providing funding and mentorship to entrepreneurs and early-stage companies. Mr. Green is also a board member of the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, an organization committed to developing projects and relationships with federal agencies, national(…)
Dr. Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D. is a human geneticist and entrepreneur who works to positively disrupt the health care system so as to improve patient outcomes. Dr. Stephan is credited with being one of the fathers of the field of Personalized Medicine based on both his work in deeply sub-classifying common diseases using molecular scanning technologies,(…)