Executive Team
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 and Chief Executive Officer
Managing General Partner, The Aurora Funds, Inc. - Prasant Potuluri, Ph. D.
Chief Technology Officer
Scott Albert
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Managing General Partner, The Aurora Funds, Inc.
Scott Albert was appointed President and CEO in June of 2009, having been a lead investor of Centice and serving on the company’s Board of Directors since its founding in the summer of 2004. Mr. Albert brings a unique combination of executive, operational, investment and financial experience to Centice, having worked with over fifty venture backed companies in the technology and medical areas throughout his career.
Mr. Albert co-founded The Aurora Funds, Inc., a lead investor in Centice, in 1994, after already spending nearly a decade in the venture capital industry. 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, he 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 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 served as President of a venture-backed start-up company in Houston, Texas. Before entering the venture capital industry, he was a consultant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton. Mr. Albert currently serves on the boards of several other Aurora portfolio companies, including ALN Medical Management, StrikeIron, TriVirix and Unitrends. He was previously on the boards of Solution Technology (acquired by Rodel) and DataFlux (acquired by SAS) and led Aurora’s investment in Blackboard (NASDAQ: BBBB). Mr. Albert has a bachelor’s of science in Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Prasant Potuluri, Ph. D.
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Prasant Potuluri is the Chief Technology Officer at Centice Corporation, primarily focusing on identifying and evaluating new technology and providing strategic vision and direction to the engineering group. He has pursued several federal grants for Centice and has won close to $1.4 million in research funds. He also strategically manages the Intellectual portfolio of the company.
Prior to co-founding Centice in 2004, Prasant was a graduate research assistant at Duke University and developed the company’s core computational sensor technology platform. His PhD thesis, “Multiplexed Optical Sensors for Reference Structure Tomography and Compressive Spectroscopy”, was the first demonstration of compressive sampling, a revolutionary concept. In 2004, Prasant was awarded the John T. Chambers Fellow for demonstrating excellence in classroom activities, research activities and for participation in Duke Activities. Prasant played a critical role in winning the grand prize at the Duke Startup Challenge.
Dr. Potuluri obtained a PhD from Duke University, a master’s degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor’s degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is a member of the Optical Society of America, SPIE and Sigma-Xi. He founded the Duke Chapter of the Optical Society of America and held the office of the President for the chapter during 2003-2004.
