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Daryl Boudreaux

Prior to NanoHoldings, Boudreaux established and led the technology transfer office at Rice University. He was responsible for assessment and commercialization of technologies that grew from university research programs and for negotiating all intellectual property and business development matters for the university. While at Rice, he started 13 new companies in 6 years, 9 based on Rice nanotechnology inventions. Prior to Rice, he established and led the Office of Technology Transfer for the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Previously Boudreaux was a senior executive in the corporate RD&E organization at AlliedSignal. He began his career at AlliedSignal as a physicist, initially carrying out research as well in materials science and chemistry. Prior to joining AlliedSignal, he was associate professor of physics at the Polytechnic University of New York. Boudreaux has a B.S. from Loyola University and a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, both in physics. He did postdoctoral work at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University in the U.K.

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John Miller, Vice President, Business Development, Arrowhead Research Corporation
John Miller has been instrumental in identifying and developing new business ideas for Arrowhead and its subsidiaries. Miller founded NanoPolaris and guided its development through the acquisition of the assets of Unidym, a company developing electronic applications of carbon nanotubes, and the merger with Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc., a company possessing an expansive portfolio of carbon nanotube patents and carbon nanotube manufacturing capabilities. Prior to joining the company, from 2002 until 2004, Miller was a founder and managing editor of Nanotechnology Law & Business, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal. He has published various articles on legal, business, and policy issues in nanotechnology, and he coauthored The Handbook of Nanotechnology Business, Policy, and Intellectual Property Law (John Wiley, 2004). Miller is a member of the California bar and federal courts in the Northern District of California. He graduated Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School.

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Howard Kravitz

Howard Kravitz, President and CEO, NanoPack Inc.
In addition to his current position, Howard Kravitz has also been involved in several other new ventures, notably in shelf-life extension technologies for fresh fruits and vegetables. As a former consultant to the chemical/agriculture industries, he specialized in new business entries and the expansion of existing businesses. Early career employment with Uniroyal Chemical in urethanes and specialty chemicals saw his involvement in the development of numerous new products for the automotive, construction, and recreation markets. He maintained this focus on new business development at McKinsey & Company, and then was involved in M&A for The PQ Corporation in the late 1980s. For the past 15 years he has been involved with several start-up ventures, including H&N Biologics, EPL Technologies, and Agway’s/BASF’s FreshSeal business.

Kravitz holds several patents in material technologies and shelf-life extension chemistries. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.