Kansas Bioscience Big Thinkers

MICHAEL C. BECKLOFF
President
Beckloff Associates, Inc.

• Founded in 1976, Beckloff Associates, Inc. assists pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients in bringing new products to market.

• Beckloff leads a team of scientists and project managers with extensive international regulatory experience that have successfully supported worldwide drug development across a broad range of therapeutic categories and virtually all types of product formulations.
• His service as Chairman of the Kansas Bioscience Organization and selection as Mentor of the Year for the KTEC PIPELINE are further acknowledgement of Beckloff’s commitment and contributions to the bioscience industry’s growth.

PATRICIA (TRISH) BRASTED
President & CEO
Wichita Technology
Corporation
Managing Member
Wichita Technology
Ventures, L.L.C

• Under the leadership of Brasted, the Wichita Technology Corporation has consulted with hundreds of entrepreneurs, assisted in raising over $80 million dollars from private investors leveraged into 40 technology companies that represent over 60 patented technologies.

• Brasted has been selected as Chair of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF), as a result of her leadership in the area of assisting emerging companies.
• A founding member of the first angel organization in Kansas, the Midwest Venture Alliance (MVA), she also created a branch in Southeast Kansas (SEKVA); and launched the “Rural Kansas Angel Initiative.”

RICHARD R. DeLUCA
President
Fort Dodge Animal Health

• Joining Wyeth in 1988, Richard DeLuca was recently named President of Fort Dodge Animal Health.

• Fort Dodge Animal Health, a leading manufacturer and marketer of animal health products, employs 3,400 people worldwide and serves the U.S. and International markets, distributing products to more than 100 countries.
• The company, headquartered in Overland Park, will open a new $40 million research and development facility as an anchor tenant in the Kansas Bioscience Park in Olathe, significantly expanding the company’s footprint in the state.

BRUCE FERGUS ON
Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer
Edenspace Systems
Corporation

• Edenspace Systems Corporation, recently announced completion of a $10 million Series A financing package. The company has annual revenues of $1 billion and more than 2,500 employees.

• Ferguson is a member of the Kansas Innovation Consortium and the Center for the Study of the Presidency’s “Agenda 2008 Study Group on Presidential Chemistry Science and Technology Advisory Assets.”
• At Harvard Business School, he co-founded Orbital Sciences in 1982, a $500 million-a-year public company.
• Fortune has referred to Ferguson as a CEO “known for out-of-this world concepts that make money” and a “green pioneer.”

ROY JENSEN, MD
Director
University of Kansas
Cancer Center

• In 2004, Jensen became the director of the University of Kansas Cancer Center, implementing a vision toward achieving the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center.

• Jensen has been at the forefront in the characterization of premalignant and malignant breast lesions. His laboratory was instrumental in demonstrating the role of BRCA1 in the growth control of normal and malignant cells and in how loss of BRCA1 function contributes to the development of breast cancer.
• He also serves as director of the Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Institute (KMCRI), the research arm of the cancer center. Jensen is the first recipient of the William R. Jewell, MD Distinguished Kansas Masonic Professorship in Cancer Research.

OLGA B. KOPER, Ph.D.
Vice President Technology &
Technical Services,
Chief Technology Officer
NanoScale Corporation

• As the first full time employee of NanoScale, joining the company in 1996, she played a key role in the start-up and growth of the company that currently employs 50 associates.

• Koper has developed her experience in the synthesis and optimization of novel reactive nanomaterials for chemical and bio related applications, including environmental remediation, odor control and destruction
  of chemical and biological warfare agents.

• She has authored and co-authored more than 20 papers and co-holds 17 patents for composition and applications of nanomaterials.

• As the first full time employee of NanoScale, joining the company in 1996, she played a key role in the start-up and growth of the company that currently employs 50 associates.

• As a member of the KTEC PIPELINE charter class she was chosen as the “Innovator of the Year.”

TRACY B. TAYLOR
President & CEO
Kansas Technology Enterprise
Corporation (KTEC)

• Taylor provided the leadership role in creation of the Kansas Economic Growth Act (KEGA) in 2004, resulting in the statewide bioscience initiative.

• Taylor’s focus on insuring Kansas is at the forefront of technology-based economic development has led to creation of innovative programs such as the “Come Home to Kansas” initiative and KTEC PIPELINE.
• He co-founded the Kansas Bioscience Organization in 2004 and continues to serve on the KansasBio board of directors. Taylor is currently working to form a similar Software and Information Technology industry organization in Kansas.