2006 Officers and Board Members
Matthew A. Gonda Ph. D.
President
MG Consulting Group
matgonda@aol.com
Chairman
Dr. Claude Bennett
President
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
cbennett@biocryst.com
President
Robert S. Seitz
CEO
Applied Genomics Inc.
rseitz@applied-genomics.com
Vice President
Greg Peterson
Attorney
Bradley, Arant, Rose & White
gpeterson@bradleyarant.com
Secretary
Cecil G. Bostany
Partner,
Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino, LLC
cecil.bostany@wakm.com
Treasurer
Kathy Nugent, Ph.D.
knugentphd@yahoo.com
Executive Director
Board Members:
Russell Cunningham
President
Birmingham Area Chamber of Commerce
president@birminghamchamber.com
Steve Boggan
President and CEO
BioHorizons Implant Systems, Inc.
sboggan@biohorizons.com
William Brooke
Executive Vice President and Managing Partner, Harbert Venture Partners
Harbert Management Corporation
wbrooke@harbert.net
Charles E. Bugg, Ph. D.
CEO
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
cbugg@biocryst.com
Lawrence W. Greer
Sr. Managing Partner
lgreer@greercap.com
Angela Wier
Vice President
Economic Development Partnership of Alabama
awier@edpa.org
Alex B. Leath III
Partner
Balch & Bingham
aleath@balch.com
Susan Matlock
President
Entrepreneurial Center
smatlock@entrepreneurialctr.com
Richard Marchase, Ph.D
Vice President for Research
University of Alabama at Birmingham
marchase@uab.edu
Mark R. Miehle
Consultant
mrmiehle@bellsouth.net
Curtis Palmer
President and CEO
TechBirmingham
curtis@techbirmingham.com
Kip Porter
Executive Vice President
Porter White & Company
porter@pwco.com
Randy Riggs
Sr.Vice President Corporate Development
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals
rriggs@biocryst.com
Dick Reeves
CEO
BizTech, Inc
dick@biztech.org
Dr. John A. Secrist III
Vice President, Drug Discovery
Southern Research Institute
secrist@sri.org
Jan Thornton
Director, Office of Technology Transfer
Auburn University
thornjd@mail.auburn.edu
Art Tipton
President
Brookwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc
atipton@brookwoodpharma.com
Ms. Roseanne Varner
President and CEO
Atherotech, Inc.
rvarner@atherotech.com
Ted vonCannon;
President
Metropolitan Development Board
ted@mdb.org
Carl Whatley
CEO
ProEthic Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
cwhatley@proethic.com
William S. (Sandy) White
Director
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Research Foundation
wswhite@uab.edu
Marianne Woods, Ph.D
Assoc. VP for Research
The University of Alabama
marianne.woods@ua.edu
