Frederick L. A. Grauer, Ph.D.
Chairman
Dr. Grauer is Chairman of the Board of Purfresh, Inc. He is also Senior Advisor to Barclays Global Investors and was, for fifteen years, Chairman and CEO of its predecessors. As a private investor in early stage ventures, Dr. Grauer also chairs Integrated Trade Processing Corporation and Financial Crossing. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, has a doctorate in business from Stanford University, and was a professor at M.I.T. and Columbia University. Global Custodian Magazine recognized Dr. Grauer as one of the 100 most important contributors to modern finance in the 20th century. His not-for-profit focus is on education, as Trustee of the Commonfund and The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and as Advisor to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is a former Trustee of Menlo School and the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
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Michael W. Clark
Board Member
Michael W. Clark is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Chilton Investment Company. He joined the firm in 2005 from Credit Suisse First Boston where he was the Global Head of Proprietary Trading and an Executive Board member. Mr. Clark spent a total of 14 years at CSFB and served as the Co-Head of the Global Equities division from 2002-2004.
Prior to his 14 years at CSFB, Mr. Clark began his career as a commodities trader and a member of COMEX in the early 1980s. He then worked at Salomon Brothers in 1986 and joined Drexel Burnham Lambert as a First Vice President and Senior Convertibles Trader in 1989.
Mr. Clark received his B.A. in Economics from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. He is a Trustee to the Board of St. Lawrence University, serves on the Board of the Community Fund of Darien, and is a trustee emeriti of the Children’s Storefront School in Harlem.
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David Cope
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. David Cope is President and Chief Executive Officer of Purfresh. With more than 25 years of engineering, sales, marketing and executive management experience for high profile technology businesses, Mr. Cope adds a new dimension and perspective to building a successful company. Under Mr. Cope’s leadership, the company will accelerate its focus on developing new and differentiated clean solutions that will enable customers worldwide to deliver high quality food and water products without the use of harmful chemicals.
Mr. Cope joined Purfresh in 2004 as Chief Marketing Officer and was promoted to CEO in 2006. Previously, Mr. Cope was president and CEO of BizGenics and held a variety of executive positions at Extricity (acquired by Peregrine), Marimba, Illustra (acquired by Informix) and IBM Mr. Cope holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biochemistry from San Jose State University. In addition, he participated in Harvard’s Advanced Executive Management program.
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Paul A. Hall, Ph.D
Board Member
Dr. Hall joined the board of directors in 2007. He is a world-renowned expert in the microbiological safety and stability of foods and beverages. Most recently, Dr. Hall was vice president of global food safety for ConAgra Foods, Inc. Prior to ConAgra, he was vice president of global business development for Matrix MicroScience Inc., and was with Kraft Foods Global for nearly 17 years. Previous experience includes Anheuser Busch Companies, Inc. and Ralston Purina Company's Central Research Division.
Dr. Hall is past president of the International Association for Food Protection and has been actively involved with various professional organizations and institutes, including the International Life Sciences Institute, the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety, the National Center for Food Safety and Technology, the Institute of Food Technologists, the American Society for Microbiology, the Food Products Association and the International Dairy Foods Association.
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Jeb Miller
Board Member
Mr. Miller joined Purfresh’s board of directors in 2010. He is a General Partner at Jafco Ventures, and has over fifteen years of experience working with early-stage technology companies as a venture capitalist, operating executive and investment banker. Mr. Miller has relentless energy and is passionate about teaming with entrepreneurs to help build successful companies. He also serves as a consultant to the Defense Venture Catalyst Initiative program of the US Department of Defense. Mr. Miller’s venture capital career began with Morgan Stanley Technology Ventures, a corporate venture group he co-founded in 2001. He then further developed his venture investing skills with two leading venture capital firms, three years as a Partner with ComVentures and three years as a Principal with Worldview Technology Partners. Prior to joining Jafco Ventures, Mr. Miller was with the Silicon Valley office of The Carlyle Group focused on technology investing. He also gained valuable operating experience as Managing Director of Business Development for Scient, a pioneering Internet consulting firm. Mr. Miller began his career with Morgan Stanley's technology investment banking groups in New York, Boston and Menlo Park. In addition, Mr. Miller is on the board of TRUSTe and World Golf Tour and actively involved with Aster Data Systems, Attributor, Devicescape, FireEye, Ocarina Networks, Oodle and VuClip. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Harvard College where he graduated summa cum laude and played water polo.
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Mike Sherman
Board Member
Mr. Sherman joined Purfresh's board of directors in 2007. He is Partner
with Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital and has more than 10 years
experience in finance and strategic planning with early stage clean
technology and growth companies. Mr. Sherman helped found Chrysalix in
2001, one of the first early stage venture capital firms to focus
exclusively on cleantech and alternative energy investing. Prior to
joining Chrysalix, Mike worked in strategic planning with Starbucks
Coffee Company's Corporate Business Alliances group, developing and
supporting Starbucks joint venture businesses, licensed concepts, and
growth strategies. He has experience working in Canada, the United
States, and the Netherlands. He is also a Partner in the BC Technology
Social Venture Partnership, a charitable foundation created by
individuals in BC's technology industries, that supports innovative
non-profit charitable investing combined with active Partner mentoring.
Currently Mr. Sherman is Chairman of the board of ReliOn Inc. and is an
observer on the board of Lilliputian Systems. He holds an Honors
Bachelor of Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of
Business at the University of Western Ontario.
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Warren Weiss
Board Member
Mr. Weiss joined the board of directors in 2004. He currently works for Foundation Capital, focusing primarily on investments in emerging software companies—both licensed and software as a service—as well as the clean tech industry. Mr. Weiss has over 25 years experience in the software industry, including president and CEO of four public and private software companies. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Asera, a real-time software solutions provider. Previously, Mr. Weiss served as president and CEO with Prism Solutions during the company's transition from data warehousing tools provider to business intelligence application deliverer. Prior, he was president of SQRIBE Technologies (now Hyperion) and earlier, president and CEO of SMI. Mr. Weiss has held numerous other senior executive positions at Next Software (Apple), Continuum (Computer Sciences Corporation), and Dun & Bradstreet Software. In addition to Purfresh, Mr. Weiss currently serves on the boards of SpringCM™, Apexon, MarkMonitor, Rearden Commerce, Silver Spring Networks, and Guardian Analytics. Mr. Weiss holds a BS from Western Illinois University.
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