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Terry R. Coley co-founded Virtual Chemistry, Inc. (VCI) with Jon Hurley and Tom Thacher in November 1995. Terry holds degrees in computer science and chemistry from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in quantum computational chemistry from Caltech. At Deltagen, Dr. Coley served as the Vice President of Information Technology. There he created standards for IT infrastructure, software development, and IT hiring practices. Key accomplishments include the design and development of DeltaDiscovery, a metadata-driven system for acquisition, warehousing, and web-display of laboratory data. This software hosted and delivered all revenue-generating data for Deltagen's DeltaBase product, a subscription database of functional genomics information. Before establishing VCI, Dr. Coley founded a company in 1989 to sell a load balancing system which he designed for parallel computers. In 1993, Dr. Coley became a full-time consultant to Vestar, Inc. studying molecular modeling approaches in their liposomal drug delivery group. He joined Biosym Technologies in 1994 and became a Project Leader in the life sciences business unit where he implemented the inter-process communication facilities and designed the initial Message Passing Interface-based parallelism in the Discover molecular dynamics program. Dr. Coley has extensive experience in parallel computing, 3D computer graphics, and software development tools and technologies. Dr. Coley is directly involved with many projects at VCI. His current interests include the design and implementation of chemical informatics solutions for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. | 