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J. David Owens
Director
David is the President & CEO of BiologicsMD, an early-stage drug development company, and a Founding Partner for Bowman’s Tower Venture Partners, a venture capital group founded in 2022 to assist entrepreneur leaders in advancing their early-stage life-science companies. Previous roles include Co-CEO & Board Director of OrthogenRx, Inc. (sold to Avanos in 2022), Chief Business Officer of Novira Therapeutics, Inc. (sold to J&J in 2015), Senior Vice President and Business Unit Head of the Surgical Products Division at King Pharmaceuticals (now Pfizer), Vice President of Global Marketing & Medical Affairs at Aventis Pharma (now Sanofi), and other commercial positions at Genentech, Merck and Abbott Labs. David has been an active private investor and angel investor since 2009 and was previously a member of the Mid-Atlantic Angel Group Fund II and the Delaware Crossing Investor Group.
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Dr. Barry Arkles
Director
Dr. Barry Arkles has a record of accomplishment in applied materials science, surface chemistry and biotechnology both from the innovation and managerial perspective that can be noted in contributions to a variety of applications including thermoplastic composites, the NASA Space Shuttle, Contact Lenses, Interlayer Dielectrics and Metallization used in integrated semiconductor devices, and Gene Chips for DNA array analysis. Today the companies that he founded or cofounded generate nearly $1,000,000,000 in annual revenue: LNP Engineering Thermoplastics, Petrarch Systems Inc., and Gelest Inc, now part of SABIC Basic Industries, Evonik, and Mitsubishi Chemical, Inc, respectively. He has published over 150 technical articles and has been granted over 100 patents. He has been elected to the National Academy of Engineers and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has received numerous awards including the John Scott Medal, ACS Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry, the R&D 100 Award for contributions to semiconductors.
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