BAA Leadership

Executive Directors

Charlie Bugg, Ph.D.
BioCryst
Chairman

Richard Myers, Ph.D.
President, Hudson Alpha Institute
Vice President

Cecil Bostany
Partner
Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino
Treasurer

Directors

O'Neal Smitherman, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

Carl Whatley
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America

Alan Dean
Managing Partner
Greer Capital

Jack Secrist, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Southern Research

Carter Wells
Director of External Affairs
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

Richard Marchase, Ph.D.
Professor & Vice President of Research
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Will Brooke
Managing Partner
Harbert Management Corporation

David Winwood
CEO
UAB Research Foundation

Sid McAnnally
Attorney
Maynard Cooper & Gale, P.C.

Gene Price
Attorney
Burr Forman

James Childs
Attorney
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
 
Art Tipton, Ph.D.
President
SurModics Pharmaceuticals
 
Susan Matlock
President & CEO
The Innovation Depot
 
Angela Wier
Vice President
Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA)

Kathy Nugent, Ph.D.
Biotechnology Association of Alabama

Jan Thornton
Director, Technology Transfer
Auburn University

Bill Johnson
Director,
Alabama Department of Economic & Community Affairs (ADECA)

William Gathings
Director, Office of Technology Transfer
The University of Alabama 

Brian Pollock
General Manager
Open Biosytems Products
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Mike Walters
Executive Vice President
Eurand Pharmaceuticals