In 1991, Dr. Bryan joined the pharmaceutical industry as a Senior Scientist with Schering Plough and then worked in Business Development at AAI from 1994 - 2000 where he was Global Product Director for Pharmaceutics.

He joined Shire in January 2000 where he served as Vice President Business Development for Shire Laboratories, the Advanced Drug Delivery Division of Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, based in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Bryan's responsibilities at Shire included business development, licensing, and Project Management for Shire's bioavailability enhancement and oral controlled release drug delivery technologies as well as Management Team member.

Dr. Bryan now serves as Vice President of Business Development, Licensing and Project Management of Supernus Pharmaceuticals following the Management Team led acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Shire Laboratories to form a specialty pharmaceutical company.

Dr. Bryan received his B.S. degree in Zoology from Clemson University, Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutics from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1991, and an Executive Management Certificate from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School in 1999.

He is a member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and Controlled Release Society (CRS) and serves as an Advisory Board member to IIR's Drug Delivery Partnerships Conference.