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Terry R. Coley, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer

Travis V. Thelen, Ph.D.
Director of Technology Development

Peter Coley
Principal Software Architect


Terry R. Coley co-founded Virtual Chemistry, Inc. (VCI) 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. Read Terry's Blog 
Travis V. Thelen joined Virtual Chemistry in August, 2003, bringing broad experience in life sciences, software development, and engineering. Dr. Thelen joined Virtual Chemistry from Deltagen, Inc. where he served as Group Leader of Application Development. While at Deltagen, Dr. Thelen played a key role in LIMS (laboratory information management systems) development, data warehousing and data management implementations, and development of Deltagen's functional genomics platform DeltaBase.

Dr. Thelen has consulted for such companies as: Gensym, TRW, BMC Software, Atlantic Research Corporation, US Army LIA Labs, Computer Sciences Corporation, US Air Force, and Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals. Consulting engagements include such diverse applications as: Real-time fault diagnosis (root-cause analysis) of distributed software and network systems; dynamic scheduling, planning, and optimization applications; business process modeling and re-engineering; laboratory automation and integration applications; and knowledge management system development.

Dr. Thelen did post-doctoral work with Dr. Robert L. Welch of Gensym Corporation working on applications of Bayesian network technology to fault diagnosis and real-time reliability analysis after receiving Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Chemical & Biological Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Thelen also holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University.

Peter Coley Peter Coley is an experienced software developer and UI designer, with a particular focus on web technologies. Peter received a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002.

At Deltagen, Peter was an application and web developer. He built a large portion of the web-based user interface components used by Deltagen's internal and external applications, as well as designed and implemented several in-house productivity tools.

Since joining VCI, Peter has been involved in the design and development of all aspects of the Mosaic platform. In particular, he is the primary designer and developer of Mosaic's AJAX-based web user interface, a major contributor to VCI's MetaXml technologies, and the lead developer for the Mosaic Vivarium product.

Recently, Peter has been working extensively on projects that utilize new technologies such as Silverlight to deliver exceptional user experiences on the web.