Management
Dr. László Ürge – Chief Executive Officer
Dr. László Ürge was appointed as the CEO of ThalesNano in March 2007. From 2001 to 2006 Dr. Ürge was the CEO of ComGenex Inc, an integrated drug discovery service provider. In 2006 he was the Vice President of European Operations for AMRI Hungary. Earlier he held the positions of Head of Pharmaceutical development at Biorex R&D Inc, an innovative biotechnology company. Prior to that he was a research group leader at Neurex Corporation (CA, USA) later acquired by Elan Pharmaceuticals. He did his postdoc at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia and at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. He is a Vice President of the Hungarian Association for Innovation and a Member of the Board of the Hungarian Biotechnology Association. Dr. Ürge is author of 90 publications and patents and a holder of two R&D awards.
Carl Jones – Head of European Sales
Carl Jones has over 20 years of success in the life sciences field. He was appointed Head of Sales in January 2008 to develop direct sales and distribution channels for ThalesNano. Prior to joining ThalesNano, he has held a variety of senior positions including Sales Director Europe, Middle East and Africa for Thermo Biosciences where he managed 8 subsidiaries plus distribution channels, CEO, Affinity Sensors, an evanescent wave optical biosensor company, VP Sales and Marketing USA for Labsystems and various Business Development and Business Unit management roles in the life sciences instrumentation sector.
Erzsébet Pálné Tari – Financial Director
Erzsébet Pálné Tari was appointed as the Financial Director of ThalesNano in March 2007. She has also been the CEO of ComInnex since February 2006. Prior to this, she was a founder, a Board Member and the Controller for Comgenex between 1994 and 2006. She was as a Founder of ThalesNano in 2002 and established the financial systems of the company. Erzsébet Pálné Tari graduated from the Budapest Business School, College of Finance and Accountancy and she is a Certified Public Accountant.
Richard Jones – Head of R&D and Product Management
Richard Jones is responsible for product direction and user experience for the entire line of ThalesNano instruments. He joined ThalesNano in July of 2004 where he started as Chief Research Chemist, helping to develop the chemistry on the H-Cube and other flow reactors. He then went on to become Product Manager of the R&D 100 Award winning H-Cube before becoming Director of Product Management. Prior to ThalesNano, Richard was at Biofocus Discovery and worked on the synthesis of several Kinase and GPCR inhibitor based compound libraries. Richard studied chemistry at the University of Bristol where he graduated with honors in 1999.
Dr. György Dormán - Head of Chemistry
Dr. Dormán obtained his M. Sc. (1982) and Ph.D. (1986) in medicinal chemistry, as well as M.B.A. (2000) from the Technical University of Budapest. He spent a post-doctoral year in the UK (University of Salford) (1988-89) and he was a Visiting Scientist at the State University of New York (Stony Brook) (1992 – 1996). He participated in numerous drug discovery research programs at various pharmaceutical companies (e.g. Sanofi – Aventis - formerly Chinoin, EGIS - now Servier). Between 1999 and 2008 he held various management positions, including CSO and Assistant Director at ComGenex and AMRI Hungary. In 2008 he became honorary associate professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Szeged University. He joined ThalesNano in 2008 and he is now serving the company as the Head of Chemistry. He is an author or co-author of 72 scientific papers and book chapters, and filed 20 patents.