MANAGEMENT TEAM

James E. Mahoney
President, CEO and Director

Mr. Mahoney joined Surface Logix in March 2003. Prior to Surface Logix, Mr. Mahoney was President & CEO of Prolinx, Inc. Previous to that, Mr. Mahoney was Senior Vice President, General Manager of Dade Behring, Inc.'s TQC Product Line, as well as Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy at both Dade Behring and its predecessor, Dade International. In addition to being one of the founding executives of Dade International, Mr. Mahoney had operating responsibility for two business units, Bartels, Inc. and Burdick & Jackson, Inc. Previous to Dade, Mr. Mahoney was Vice President, Planning and Business Development at Baxter Diagnostics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Baxter Healthcare. Preceding Baxter, Mr. Mahoney worked for FMC Corporation where he held several different positions in finance and marketing. Mr. Mahoney received a Master of Management degree from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), a Master of Marine Affairs & International Commerce degree from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 
Paul Sweetnam, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Sweetnam joined Surface Logix in August of 2001. Prior to joining Surface Logix, Dr. Sweetnam was VP of Research Technologies at Bayer Pharmaceuticals. While at Bayer, Dr. Sweetnam's key focus areas were bioinformatics, genomics, protein biosciences, assay development, HTS, in-vivo and in-vitro pharmacokinetics, toxicology and comparative medicine. Dr. Sweetnam was also responsible for the identification, evaluation and integration of external opportunities in the areas of pharmacology, high throughput screening, molecular biology, protein biosciences and chemical diversity. During his tenure at Bayer, Dr. Sweetnam helped oversee the delivery of nine candidate molecules to development. Prior to joining Bayer, Dr. Sweetnam was employed by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, where he developed and implemented the "Drug Pfinder" program, responsible for identifying, acquiring and optimizing potential and/or novel drug discovery targets. While at Novascreen, a division of Nova Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Sweetnam played an integral role in successfully implementing the first drug selectivity "Profiling" system for the Pharmaceutical Industry. Dr. Sweetnam is a graduate of the University of Maine, earned his Ph.D. in neurochemistry at Georgetown University, was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine, and was an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Of Miami School Of Medicine.

 
William Prince, Ph.D, MB, ChB, FFPM
Senior Vice President, Discovery Medicine

Dr. Prince joined Surface Logix in April 2005. He brings over 20 years of pharmaceutical experience to Surface Logix. Prior to joining Surface Logix, Dr. Prince was Vice President of Clinical Pharmacology and Discovery Medicine at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and led a department of over 500 professionals worldwide. Dr Prince started his career in the Pharmaceutical Industry with Hoffman La Roche in the United Kingdom then moved to Beecham to lead one of their five clinical pharmacology units. He later joined Glaxo Wellcome in the UK as International Director of Clinical Pharmacology. Prior to his career in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Dr. Prince spent over 10 years at Cambridge University conducting academic research investigating the roles of calcium and cyclic AMP in controlling cell function. He has led the early clinical development and helped the successful regulatory submissions for several drugs, which are now approved and benefiting patients around the world. Dr. Prince received his medical degree (MB ChB), PhD (pharmacology) and MA (natural science) from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.

 
Warwick Tong, MB ChB MPP
Senior Vice President, Commercial Development

Dr. Tong joined Surface Logix in August 2004. He brings over 12 years of pharmaceutical experience to Surface Logix. Prior to joining Surface Logix, Dr. Tong was a Vice President in World Wide Development at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Also at GSK, Dr. Tong held the positions of Vice President, Global Commercial Strategy for Anti-Infectives, Regional Business Development Director for Asia Pacific and Medical Director in New Zealand. In his commercial role at GSK, Dr. Tong was responsible for a franchise with annual global sales in excess of $3.2 billion and was responsible for launching two new anti-viral products. He has also led business development activities on a regional basis and in-licensing negotiations for a number of global assets at different stages of development. Dr. Tong is qualified as Senior Scholar in Medicine from Auckland University.

 
Leland Webster, Ph.D. MBA
Vice President, Corporate Developement

Dr. Webster joined Surface Logix in August 2007, bringing 11 years of biotechnology experience to Surface Logix. Prior to joining Surface Logix, Dr. Webster was Executive Director, Business Development at ImmunoGen, Inc., where he had responsibility for in- and out-licensing, and concluded a number of important strategic alliance deals. Prior to this, Dr. Webster held positions of increasing responsibility in business development at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, most recently as a Director. Dr. Webster began his career in the biotech industry at MPM Capital L.P., where he was a Senior Analyst. Dr. Webster received his B.A. in Biological Sciences from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and he served as a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Harvard Medical School. In addition to his scientific training, Dr. Webster holds an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

 
Winston Henderson
Vice President, General Counsel

Mr. Henderson joined Surface Logix in May 2000. Prior to joining Surface Logix, Mr. Henderson was an attorney with Kenyon & Kenyon. Prior to Kenyon & Kenyon, Mr. Henderson worked as a consultant for Accenture (formerly, Andersen Consulting). His experience covers many areas of intellectual property, including patent, trademark and copyright litigation, licensing and prosecution, corporate intellectual property strategy, valuation and due diligence. Mr. Henderson's patent litigation and prosecution experience is focused primarily in life sciences including biotechnology and medical-related devices. Mr. Henderson received both his B.S. in Biomedical & Electrical Engineering from Duke University and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law.

 
John Wm. Ferkany, Ph.D., M.A.S.
Vice President, Biology

Dr. Ferkany joined Surface Logix in July 2005 as Vice President of Biology bringing over 20 years of experience from the biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and contract research management industries. Prior to joining Surface Logix, Dr. Ferkany served as Senior Vice President for Virtual Drug Development Incorporated, a privately held biotechnology company engaged in developing therapeutic strategies for biodefense. Dr. Ferkany has also served as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of NovaScreen BioSciences Corporation, an international contract research organization providing screening, profiling and assay development services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide, and for government agencies including the National Institutes of Health. He also headed his own consulting firm focused on regulatory preclinical drug development. He also led the Central Nervous Research group at Nova Pharmaceutical Corporation, the first successful biotechnology spin-out from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Ferkany has a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Michigan, a doctoral degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Texas at Houston, and a Masters of Administrative Sciences awarded from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

 
Bridget McCarthy, Ph.D.
Vice President, Chemistry

Dr. McCarthy joined Surface Logix in May 2006 as Vice President of Chemistry bringing over 10 years of pharmaceutical experience to the Company. Prior to joining Surface Logix, Dr. McCarthy held the position of Associate Director of Medicinal Chemistry at the Pfizer Research Technology Center in Cambridge, Ma. In this role Dr. McCarthy was responsible for managing medicinal and analytical chemistry in support of various drug discovery programs including targets in the areas of obesity, diabetes and inflammation. Prior to joining the Pfizer Cambridge site in 2001, Dr. McCarthy held the position of Project Leader in the Veterinary Medicine Research and Discovery Division in Groton, CT where she actively pursued the development of anti-obesity agents and was a key contributor to the discovery of Dirlotapide. Dr. McCarthy has a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Brandeis University and conducted post-doctoral work in asymmetric catalysis at Boston College.