Overview

Gender

male

Mr. Palay is one of our founders and has served as Chairman of the Board and as Chief Executive Officer since 2007.

Mr. Palay previously served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of each of our predecessors from their founding until 2008.

He also co-founded NimbleGen Systems, Inc., a molecular biology tools company, and served as its chairman of the board from 1999 to 2007 and as its chief executive officer from 1999 to 2000.

Since their inception, Mr. Palay has served as a manager of the general partner or manager of each of the various Tactics II entities, which are private investment vehicles and are among our principal shareholders.

He received a A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, an M.M. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law.
We selected Mr. Palay to serve on our board of directors due to his in-depth understanding of our business and operating experience with business startups.