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CCVF Executive Board
Officers and Directors
Joseph E. Nida, Chairman & Executive Director
David A. Uhler, CFO
Executive Board Members
Jim Andelman
Art Baer
Michael D. Bekins
Chuck Bischof
Dennis J. Cagan
Jeff Carmody
Erin Chrislock
Randy Churchill
J. Douglas Crawford
Karen Crawford
David Cremin
John Dilts
John Glanville
Peter Godinez
Bill Grant
James R. Haslem
Terry Horsmon
Peter Iannone
George Issac
L. Robert Johnson
Marlene King
Jerry E. Knotts
Ronald R. Macleod
Tariq Mufti
Matthew Pigeon
Jonathan Richter
Christy Ross
Edward Savage
Peter G. Sutherland
Taycor Tatman
Mark Turk
John Wilczak
George R. Wolverton
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John Wilczak
John Wilczak was born and raised in New York. Mr. Wilczak attended Brown University where he received a BA in Anthropology in 1974. He then spent two years working as an international business development manager, before attending Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business where he received a Master Degrees in Finance and International Business in 1978. Mr. Wilczak joined the General Electric Company in 1979 where he provided strategy development and implementation services for the CEO’s office. He also spent several years with Touche Ross and Co. as an executive management consultant before going out on his own to establish new businesses. Mr. Wilczak has provided business strategy and implementation consulting services to a number of organizations including Bank of America, American Honda, Revlon/Max Factor, the U.S. Airforce, and Teledyne. Mr. Wilczak is an accomplished speaker and has presented at numerous conferences and seminars including UBS Warburg Global Investors, Deutsche Bank Technology, COMDEX, SIGGRAPH, TED and MACWORLD.
Mr. Wilczak is executive management and a financier of high technology and pharma/biotech companies. He founded MetaTools, Inc. in 1992 and led it as Chairman and CEO through a series of private financings including a $5 million investment by Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen, a successful IPO (NASDAQ) which raised $62 million in December of 1995, and then through a series of acquisitions before retiring from the Company in 1998.
Mr. Wilczak continues to be the largest shareholder and board member of NARYX Pharma Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical development company he co-founded which currently has its first drug candidate in Phase II clinical trials with the FDA. Naryx has developed and patented a breakthrough formulation technology for the treatment of chronic sinusitis, the leading chronic disease in the United States.
Mr. Wilczak has served on the board of directors of Renal Technologies, a biotech firm located in New York City and Moscow, which has developed, patented and is currently seeking FDA approval for a breakthrough polymer chemistry for the treatment of renal failure and sepsis (toxic shock).
Mr. Wilczak is active in the education field. He is a board member of the University of California Santa Barbara Foundation, actively supporting the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Bren School of Environmental Management, College of Engineering, Marine Science Institute and Creative Studies Department. Mr. Wilczak is a member of the Chancellor’s Council and has been a trustee of the UCSB Foundation since January of 1998.
Mr. Wilczak created a prototype program for UCSB to partner with businesses in 1995 when he funded and co-produced the critically acclaimed CD-ROM “Life in the Universe” with Stephen Hawkings working in concert with UCSB faculty and students. Mr. Wilczak is also a founder of the Center for Entrepreneurial and Engineering Management (now known as Technology Management Program) (TMP) and served on its board. Mr. Wilczak's interests in computer graphics technology and education were instrumental in founding the Multimedia Academy at Santa Barbara High School and a number of other education related programs in computer graphics and multimedia.
Mr. Wilczak and his wife, Janet, support numerous child education and well being related charities in the Santa Barbara area including Transition House, Montecito Union School and the University of California Santa Barbara.
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