Board of Directors

Proven leadership guides Centice Corporation’s pursuit of innovative products and services

At all levels of our organization, Centice Corporation relies on driven, forward-thinking individuals to define our direction. Discover More… about the leaders who help us realize our vision and achieve success.

Scott Albert

Chairman of the Board
Managing General Partner, The Aurora Funds, Inc.

Scott Albert co-founded The Aurora Funds with Jeff Clark in 1994, after already spending nearly a decade in the venture capital industry. Having also spent time as an entrepreneur, he wanted to create an entrepreneurs-friendly venture capital firm that could offer hands-on support and guidance, in addition to funding. Today, he leads the IT investment team at Aurora and also oversees much of the day-to-day management of the firm. Prior to forming The Aurora Funds, Scott was the Chief Investment Officer of the North Carolina Technological Development Authority, Inc. (“NCTDA”), a state-funded corporation that supports technology-based entrepreneurial companies in North Carolina. While there, he led the new venture investment efforts and performed portfolio company monitoring for the NCTDA’s extensive statewide portfolio. Prior to serving at the NCTDA, he was at Criterion Venture Partners in Houston, Texas, as a General Partner for a $30 million pool of capital, and with Golder, Thoma and Cressey, in Chicago. In addition, he has served as President of a venture-backed start-up company. Before entering the venture capital industry, he was a consultant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton. During his venture capital career, Scott has helped close more than 40 investment deals, including a broad range of Information Technology and Life Science companies. Scott currently serves on the boards of several Aurora portfolio companies, including ALN Medical Management, Centice, StrikeIron and TriVirix. Scott was previously on the boards of Solution Technology (acquired by Rodel) and DataFlux (acquired by SAS) and led the investment in Blackboard (NASDAQ: BBBB). Scott has a bachelor’s of science in Engineering from Duke University and a MBA from the University of Chicago.

Tom Scholl

General Partner, Novak Biddle Venture Partners

Tom is a successful entrepreneur and investor with experience sitting on both sides of the boardroom table. He has over twenty-five years experience in communications systems, equipment, chipsets and software, and has been active in the high-tech start-up scene in the Washington metro area for over 15 years.

He currently sits on the boards of Novak Biddle portfolio companies Centice, Paratek, Princeton Optronics, Command Information, Fiberzone Networks, Digital Bridge and Avail Media.

In 1990, Tom founded Telogy Networks, a leader in providing embedded communications software products for wireless and IP networks. Telogy’s award-winning products were proven market successes with world-class customers such as Cisco, Motorola, Samsung, Nortel, Alcatel and NEC. In 1998, Motorola purchased Telogy’s digital cellular technology and development team for over $40M, and in 1999, Texas Instruments purchased Telogy as the leader in embedded VOIP software for over $700M.

Prior to joining Novak Biddle, Tom co-founded and was chairman of Cognio, a developer of spectrum management and MIMO antenna technology for wireless applications. Cognio was acquired by Cisco in October 2007. Tom has also served as a Director of Torrent Networking, acquired by Ericsson, and Integrated Telecom, acquired by PMC Sierra.

In 1995, Tom was recognized as the Joseph A. Sciulli “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Maryland High Technology Council. Prior to Telogy, Tom was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Hughes Network Systems, a combination of M/A-Com DCC and Linkabit.

Tom is a member of the Board of Trustees at the University of Maryland and Chairman of the Board of Visitors at the Clark School of Engineering. He is also a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University.

Tom has patents relating to software, the Internet, and digital telephone systems, and he is the author of “Packet Switching” in McGraw Hill’s Electronic Communications Handbook. He’s a member of IEEE and ACM, and he is an alumnus of Purdue University and the Executive Management (non-degree) program at MIT Sloan School.

Aidar Gabidullin

Oscriva LtdBio

Aidar Gabidoullin is a Partner of S-Group Capital Management, with responsibility for financial and high-growth technology companies. He has extensive experience both in acquisitions and in strategic and operational management of high-growth companies in the financial and high-tech industries.

Prior to joining S-Group Capital Management, Aidar worked for Andersen Consulting in London, McKinsey & Co. in Russia and Capital One in the United States. Aidar is on the board of directors of five companies located in Russia, the US and Europe.

Mr. Gabidoullin graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and holds an MBA degree from the INSEAD Business School (France).

David Brady, PhD

Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Centice Corporation

David Brady holds a B.A. in physics and mathematics from Macalester College and M.S. and Ph D degrees in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign from 1990 until joining the Duke faculty as founding director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics in 2001. Professor Brady leads the Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy Program (www.disp.duke.edu), which builds computational optical sensors for hyperspectral imaging, 3-D microscopy, molecular imaging and chemometrics and wide field cameras. Dr. Brady is the author of Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy (OSA-Wiley 2009) and is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, SPIE and IEEE.

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