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Mr. Bryan S. Koontz has served as Tripos’ Senior Vice President and General Manager of Discovery Informatics since April, 2005. Mr. Koontz joined Tripos in January, 2005 as vice president of marketing and corporate development, where he was responsible for overseeing worldwide marketing and corporate development activities with a focus on Tripos’ Discovery Informatics software business. Prior to joining Tripos, Mr. Koontz was Chief Executive Officer of Optive Research, Inc., an innovative molecular discovery software company he co-founded in 2002 along with Professor Robert S. Pearlman at the University of Texas. Prior to Optive Research, Mr. Koontz served in a variety of executive roles, including VP Marketing and VP Business Development, at Contextual, Inc., an enterprise software company co-founded by Mr. Koontz and backed by Dell Ventures, Austin Ventures and TL Ventures. Mr. Koontz also held several management positions, including Director of Business Development and Director of Product Management at Trilogy Software, Inc. from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Koontz holds a B.S. with honors in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Engineering Mechanics from The Pennsylvania State University and graduated summa cum laude with a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in control system theory from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | 