Waneta C. Tuttle

Waneta C. Tuttle, PhD, MBA, is chairman of the board and founder of PhDx Systems. As a successful entrepreneur and a former senior executive with one of the nation's leading integrated healthcare organizations, Lovelace Medical Foundation, she brings extensive experience to the PhDx team.

With a PhD in biology concentrating in physiology, Dr. Tuttle worked for 23 years at Lovelace, serving for 15 years as vice president and chief operating officer of the Lovelace Medical Foundation and was the founding president of Lovelace Scientific Resources. Dr. Tuttle was also a member of the management committee for Lovelace's integrated delivery system and served on numerous boards of directors during her tenure at Lovelace.

Dr. Tuttle led the establishment of the National Clinic Research Consortium, and is founding CEO of four start-up companies: PhDx; Indigo Medical, now owned by Johnson & Johnson Ethicon Endosurgery; LifeSpex, located in Seattle, Washington; and i-Medik.

A member of the Corporation of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratories in Boston, Dr. Tuttle also serves on the board of directors for the National Center for Genome Resources and for the Science and Technology Corporation at the University of New Mexico. She was recently inducted into the UNM Robert O. Anderson Schools of Management Hall of Fame.

Geoffrey T. Mather

Geoff Mather has over 19 years experience in the healthcare industry with a concentration in sales, marketing and business development. A successful senior healthcare executive, Mr. Mather brings invaluable strategic direction and motivation to PhDx. Prior to his role as president, Mr. Mather was PhDx's vice president of sales and marketing, where he was responsible for sales, business development, account management and marketing communications.

Mr. Mather began his healthcare career in Chicago, IL with Lincoln National Corp. Through three company takeovers, beginning with TakeCare, Inc., then FHP of Illinois and ending with PacifiCare Health Systems; Mr. Mather exceeded annual sales goals. At PacifiCare, he managed a sales and service staff of 20 employees and a block of business that represented $75,000,000 in annual revenue. He developed sales activity and customer service programs, and created and implemented business plans and incentive compensation programs for the sales and service departments.

Curtis "Kip" Myers

Curtis "Kip" Myers has 20 years of operations experience in finance, engineering, marketing and general management in the computer industry. He has a proven track record as a technology company operating executive and entrepreneur. Mr. Myers is a partner of Vanguard Venture Partners and Red Rock Ventures, both early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital funds.

Before joining Vanguard, Mr. Myers was co-founder and held several top management positions at Plexus Computers, Inc. in San Jose, Calif. Plexus, a profitable $35 million venture-backed firm that pioneered the UNIX market, is the leading supplier of database systems designed to store image, text and structured data. During his eight years at Plexus, Mr. Myers served as CFO, vice president of engineering, and vice president of marketing.

Mr. Myers also held positions as president and CEO of Opus Systems, Inc., the leading manufacturer of UNIX coprocessor boards for the IBM PC, where he as instrumental in returning the company to profitability. Prior to working at Opus, he served as founder and vice president of operations of Onyx Systems, Inc., the first company to introduce a UNIX-based microcomputer. Before joining Onyx, Mr. Myers held various management and development positions with Zilog, Inc., United States Air Force, Wells Fargo Bank and Ampex. He currently sits on the board of directors of Cobalt Network, Zantaz.com, ObserveNet, Fujant Technology and Hi Five Networks.

A native of Palo Alto, Calif., Mr. Myers has a BS degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California and an MBA in finance, also from Berkeley.

Bo E. H. Saxberg

Bo E. H. Saxberg, MD, PhD attended the University of Washington, receiving Summa Cum Laude an Honors B.S. degree in Mathematics and an Honors B.S. degree in Chemistry. He then attended Cambridge University in England, earning an Honours B.A./M.A. Cantab. in Physics. Returning to the U.S., he received an MD degree from Harvard and his PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Saxberg was a National Institutes of Health Fellow at MIT from 1989 to 1991, prior to joining Eli Lilly in Indianapolis as a Senior Research Scientist, continuing his prior research interests in QSAR/genomics/proteomics/physiomics. In 1993, Dr. Saxberg was named Director of Information Sciences at Eli Lilly. This group subsequently led a number of industry pioneering efforts at Lilly, including the first Internet home page for a pharmaceutical company, as well as leading efforts in developing interactive health economic models evolving to disease management, point of care prescribing, and the development of information resources to support product portfolio decision making. This group also helped to develop Lilly's corporate strategy with respect to opportunities for information technology in healthcare and the pursuit of related business opportunities.

Dr. Saxberg joined Johnson & Johnson in 1995 as Vice President, Corporate Staff, Advanced Communications, leading Johnson & Johnson's efforts in Medical Informatics, focusing on new business opportunities related to information technology in healthcare delivery and product development. As part of these efforts, working with both internal and external venture capital resources, the Advanced Communications Group provided J&J creation or investment positions in companies leading a fundamental restructuring of health care, ranging from defined contribution employer-employee models to real-time auto-adjudication networks at the point of care supporting cost-quality decisions between doctor and patient. Working with the J&J international pharmaceutical group, leading competencies were created in the development of iterative customer relationships based on clinical information, permitting demonstration of product customer value. Dr. Saxberg and members of the Advanced Communications Group also led the development and implementation of Johnson & Johnson's global policies and procedures for the Internet, including privacy policies, to construct a policy platform to enable future business needs.

Dr. Saxberg continued as Vice President, New Business Development and Advanced Communications, in eJNJ, LLC, founded in 2000 to focus on Internet opportunities.

As of April 2002, Dr. Saxberg has left Johnson & Johnson to pursue new opportunities. He is continuing his prior work in consulting, venture formation and business development with companies seeking to take leading advantage of change driven by new technologies and information access in health care, with application to product research & development, product and service marketing, financial services innovation, and clinical service innovation.

Harrison H. Schmitt

Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, PhD, has diverse experience as a geologist, pilot, astronaut, administrator, businessman, writer and U.S. senator. He trained as a geologist at Caltech, as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo and at Harvard University, receiving his PhD in geology in 1964 based on earlier field studies in Norway. Senator Schmitt received Air Force jet pilot wings in 1965 and Navy helicopter wings in 1967.

Selected for the Apollo Scientist-Astronaut program in 1965, Senator Schmitt served as Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission to the moon. His studies on the Valley of Taurus-Littorow on the moon in 1972, as well as his earlier scientific work, made Senator Schmitt one of the leading experts on the history of the terrestrial planets.

After organizing and directing the activities of the Scientist-Astronaut Office and of the Energy Program Office for NASA, Senator Schmitt was elected to the U.S. Senate from his home state of New Mexico in 1976, and served one term.

As Senator, he served on the Senate Commerce, Banking, Appropriations, Intelligence and Ethics Committees. In his last two years in the Senate, Senator Schmitt was chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space and of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. He has served as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the Army Science Board, Interior's National Strategic Materials Advisory Committee, and several NASA advisory committees.

Senator Schmitt consults, speaks and writes on a wide range of business, public and government initiatives, particularly in the fields of space, defense, biomedicine, geology, energy, technology and policy issues of the future. He is a director of several corporations and foundations.