MANAGEMENT

Mark Tilley, Ph.D.
CEO and Chairman of the Board

Dr. Mark Tilley is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Unidym. He also serves as Vice President, Advanced Materials of Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR). Prior to joining Arrowhead, he spent 9 years at DSM N.V.; a $12B Netherlands based specialty performance materials and life science company. Most recently, he served as Senior Investment Manager with DSM's Corporate Venturing Arm and served on the boards of CreAgri, Novomer, Van Technologies, Harland Medical Systems and InMat. Prior to his work with DSM Ventures, Dr. Tilley was Vice President of Research and Business Development for DSM Desotech, an operating division of DSM that is the global market leader in fiber optic coatings and stereo lithographic resins. During his tenure, he led marketing and technical teams, and built a nano-enabled flat panel displays materials business that was acquired by JSR in 2005. Dr. Tilley also co-founded Kriya Materials B.V., a venture capital backed nano-materials and coatings company based in the Netherlands.


John Miller
Vice President, Intellectual Property

Mr. Miller also serves as Vice President of Business Development at Arrowhead Research, where his duties include licensing intellectual property held by Arrowhead and its subsidiaries. John founded Nanopolaris, which later merged with Unidym. He has written a number of published articles on legal and policy issues in nanotechnology, and is a Managing Editor of Nanotechnology Law & Business, a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal. He is also a co-author of The Handbook of Nanotechnology Business, Policy, and Intellectual Property Law (John Wiley, 2004). Mr. 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.


Takashi Murayama
Vice President, Asia Pacific Region

Mr. Murayama has more than 25 years of sales, marketing and business development experience in Asia in the electronics and semiconductor industry. Prior to Unidym, Mr. Murayama worked at Transmeta Cop, Mindspeed Technology and as regional sales manager and General Manager at Intel Corporation where he spent more than 18 years. Mr. Murayama earned an Electronic Engineering degree at Kagoshima University.


Dr. Chunming Niu
Vice President of Research and Development

Dr Niu has more than 15 years of experience in nanomaterials synthesis and product development for applications in the areas of catalysis, energy storage and conversion, separation, and electronic devices. He has a track record in intellectual property development and served as VP of Advanced Development at Nanoconduction. Dr. Niu was also a co-founder and director of chemistry of Nanosys and a senior scientist at Hyperion Catalysis. Prior to his industrial career, Dr. Niu had postdoctoral training in physical chemistry at Harvard & Columbia University, was awarded a PhD in solid state chemistry from Brown University, a MS in heterogeneous catalysis from Nanjing University. He is the author of more than 70 US patent applications (54 issued) and 35 publications.


Ms. Marybeth Miller
Vice President of Operations

Mary Beth Miller has over 25 years experience as an Environmental Health, Safety (EHS) and Facilities professional. She has managed several large manufacturing facility installations in California, Colorado, Ohio and North Dakota which included facility design and construction, equipment specification and procurement, equipment safety certification, equipment installation, EHS and local Permits and production start-up. Ms. Miller has provided regulatory compliance and audit expertise to the nanotechnology, Department of Defense, semiconductor, and manufacturing industries. Ms. Miller has published articles and lectured on Best Management Practices for the treatment of industrial waste water and the design of zero emissions waste treatment technologies.

Ms. Miller has served on various local, state and federal advisory committees, including the International Council on Nanotechnology and the Federal EPA Common Sense Initiative Action Group. Ms. Miller has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology, with a minor in Chemistry.