Board of Directors

Robert “Bob” Young

Bob Young is a co-founding Managing Director of Mirador Capital LLC. Mirador Capital is a venture capital firm, which offers investors access to a diversified group of proven high-quality venture capital funds that are generally inaccessible to new investors. The firm focuses on venture capital partnerships which invest in both the IT and life sciences industries, broadly defined.

Previously, he was a senior partner and Managing Director at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., an investment bank. He had corporate finance responsibility for information technology companies. He had previously served as the Managing General Partner of Dillon Read's venture capital funds from 1987 to 1994. During this period the funds invested over $300 million in start-up companies in information technology, biotechnology, energy and financial services. Bob's personally directed investments were among the most successful in the funds, including SanDisk, Tessera, Virtual Machine Works and Team Bank. From 1991 to 1995 Bob was also a Director of Barings Private Equity Partners, a global private equity firm headquartered in London.

Bob started his business career with IBM where, over an 18 year period, he held a number of management and executive positions in sales, marketing, engineering and general management. His last position at IBM was as President, IBM Instruments, a fully integrated global company with operations in the US and several European countries. IBM Instruments' products consisted of a broad range of scientific instruments and real-time scientific computers.

Bob is a founding investor and Director of Tessera (NASDAQ: TSRA), the leading semi-conductor interconnect technology company. He was also a Director of ATI Technologies (NASDAQ: ATYT), a leading producer of 3-D graphics and multimedia products for personal computers and consumer electronics.

Bob has served on the visiting committees of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Chemistry at MIT. He holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT.

Vladimir Smoliyaninov

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Dr. Claas Heise

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Joachim Rautter

Joachim Rautter is the Director Investment Management at PEPPERMINT. Financial Partners. At PEPPERMINT he is responsible for investment strategy and portfolio management. He has extensive experience with technology start-ups and coaches more than 40 companies in the areas of bio-, micro- and nanotechnology. Joachim currently serves on the boards of Jado Technologies and Scienion. He is a trained physicist and biophysical chemist and gained his PhD in 1995 from the Technical University of Berlin.

Alexander Kachanov

Alexander is currently leading the development of high performance hands-free sensors for process control in Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry at Skymon R&D – a daughter company of Skymoon Ventures, a high-tech venture firm in Silicon Valley, CA.

A graduate of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Alex started his career as researcher at the Institute for Spectroscopy of Russian Academy of Science. In 1995 Alex joined CNRS – French National Research Center and worked at the Laboratoire de Spectrometrie Physique in Grenoble until 2001 when he moved to California in order to implement the ideas of ultra-sensitive spectroscopy and lasers systems born in the academic research into real life. Alex has close to one hundred scientific papers and more than 20 patents in USA, France, Germany and Russia.