Brian Tuffin began his career at Procter & Gamble in 1988 and advanced through several sales and marketing positions as he elevated through the consumer product giant, then PepsiCo, Kraft and SC Johnson over the next 20 years.
Dr. David Berkoff is a well-respected team physician for Duke University’s highly regarded sports programs, which include lacrosse, soccer, football and basketball. His peer-reviewed research regarding heart rate variability of track and endurance athletes and abstracts addressing electrolyte supplementation and its impact on performance and cramping have been published in often referenced medical journals and bulletins. Dr. Berkoff’s clinical interests include non-operative orthopedics and musculoskeletal ultrasound with a focus on endurance athletes such as cyclists, runners and triathletes. He has spent time working in the Michael Krzyzewski Human Performance Lab conducting endurance-related research pertaining to cycling and bicycle fitting.
R. Douglas Armstrong, Ph.D., has over 25 years of life science industry business and finance experience, with emphasis on early stage and emerging growth life science companies. Dr. Armstrong also served as a staff scientist for The Burnham Institute (La Jolla Cancer Research Institute) from 1987 to 1991, and as Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Research Institute at the University of California from 1983 to 1987. Dr. Armstrong holds a Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology from the Medical College of Virginia and a BA degree in Chemistry from the University of Richmond.
Dr. James T. Frederick received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and his Masters and Ph.D. degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has published a variety of articles in The Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology and The Academy of Management.
Over the years, Neil Chin managed such leading global brands as Windex®, Pledge®, Raid®, Glade®, ZipLoc®, Nature Valley® and Old El Paso®.
Dr. Richard Hutchings holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics from Mercer University and a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where his thesis work focused on solution thermodynamics. Hutchings began his professional career in 1983 with Drackett Company, where he served as director of such products as Windex™, Endust™, Vanish™, and Renuzit™. Under his leadership, Drackett secured patents for sodium chlorite-based odor elimination, oxidation chemistry, and the invention of the Vanish™ Drop-ins automatic toilet bowl cleaner.
