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Marc Hadfield
Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Marc Hadfield is the inventor of Alitora's technology, including kHarmony™, and is an expert in information retrieval, knowledge modeling, and software architecture. He has designed and built data management systems for the finance and pharmaceutical industries, as well as for genomic research. Recently he performed research at the Columbia Genome Center in information extraction from scientific texts as part of the GeneWays project. Previously he was CTO of LCconnect, an online marketplace for large financial transactions of Fortune 500 Companies and Top 10 global banks, which was financed by Le Crédit Lyonnais and Tobat Capital, LLC. He is a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Computer Science Engineering.
Peter Berger
Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Peter Berger is an attorney specializing in business development as well as regulation and liability in the biotechnology field. He is a member of the American Seed Trade Association, California Seed Association and advises various groups on genetic technologies. He is licensed to practice in California, New York and New Jersey. Mr. Berger is focused on business development and financial management.
Alexander Pico, Ph.D.
Chief Science Officer
Dr. Pico holds a PhD in Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics and has over 10 years of bioinformatics experience in data mining, analysis, visualization and integration. Over the past 5 years he has led the GenMAPP pathway analysis project, managing software development and coordinating research projects involving wet lab biologists and senior programmers. Dr. Pico is a member of the Cytoscape core development team, a creator of SNPLogic.org, and a founder of WikiPathways.org. He has also administered GenMAPP's participation in the Google Summer of Code program for the last 3 consecutive years. Dr. Pico also works with the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco as a Bioinformatics Software Engineer.
Charles R. Boggs
Director of Corporate Development
Mr. Boggs works with early stage high technology companies to develop and execute funding campaigns, recruit senior executives and establish early customer and strategic relationships. Mr. Boggs has successfully worked on funding and corporate development for several Medical Device companies including Gynesonics, SpineWorks, XLumena, Aalnex, Vascular Closure Systems and Vizyontech Imaging. His management career spans more than 25 years during which he has served as a Senior Executive in a public company, taken a company public as CEO, served on the senior team of several startup companies.


