Metabolix Senior Management Team
Richard P. Eno
President and CEO
Richard P. Eno has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director since March 2008. Mr. Eno has more than twenty five years of professional experience in the chemicals and energy business. Prior to joining Metabolix, Mr. Eno served as Vice President, Leader Global Oil & Gas Sector at CRA International, a leading provider of management consulting services and economic and financial expertise to global companies. Earlier in his career, he held various roles at Arthur D. Little and Chevron Corporation. Mr. Eno holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Houston and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Oliver P. Peoples, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President, Research
Oliver P. Peoples, Ph.D., a co-founder of Metabolix, has served as our chief scientific officer and vice president of research since January 2000, and was previously our director of research and vice president. Dr. Peoples has served as a director since June 1992. Prior to founding Metabolix, Dr. Peoples was a research scientist with the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he emerged as a pioneer of the new field of metabolic pathway engineering and its applications in industrial biotechnology. The research carried out by Dr. Peoples at MIT established the fundamental tools and methods for engineering bacteria and plants to produce PHA Natural Plastics. Dr. Peoples has published numerous peer reviewed academic papers and is an inventor of over 90 patents and patent applications worldwide. Dr. Peoples received a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Joseph Hill
Chief Financial Officer
Joseph Hill has been our Chief Financial Officer since April 2008. Mr. Hill has more than twenty years of professional experience in finance, including more than fifteen years of experience at the executive level. Prior to joining Metabolix, Mr. Hill served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Amicas, Inc., the leading independent provider of radiology image and information management solutions. At Amicas, Mr. Hill was responsible for all finance, accounting, investor relations, treasury, tax, administration, IT and infrastructure. Prior to that, he was vice president and CFO at Dirig Software, a privately held provider of application performance management software systems. And Mr. Hill previously served as vice president, CFO and Director of Maconomy, a publicly traded provider of web-based business management solutions with more than 70,000 users worldwide. In this role, Hill was responsible for all finance, accounting, treasury, tax, administration, and infrastructure of this public company with offices in eight countries. Mr. Hill has a B.S. in Business Administration from Bryant College and a M.S.F. from Bentley College.
Sarah P. Cecil
General Counsel
Sarah P. Cecil has served as legal counsel to Metabolix since July 2005 and as general counsel since the Company’s initial public offering in November 2006. Previously she was corporate counsel at Vertex Pharmaceuticals from 1992 until 2001, and at Biogen from 1985 until 1991. Ms. Cecil’s legal practice has also included clients in the food ingredients, computer services and clinical research industries, as well as several biotechnology companies. Ms. Cecil received an A.B. from Brown University, and she was a C.P.A. with Price Waterhouse before obtaining a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Robert C. Findlen
Vice President, Marketing and Sales
Bob Findlen, Vice President for Sales and Marketing at Metabolix, Inc. joined Metabolix in June 2006. Bob has over twenty years of marketing, sales and management experience with GE Plastics and LNP Engineering Plastics most recently as Product Marketing Director for the LNP Product Line under the acquisition of LNP by General Electric Plastics. Prior to GE’s acquisition of LNP, Bob was Vice President & Director, LNP Americas Commercial Operations. Bob is a graduate of University of Massachusetts at Lowell with a BS in Plastics Engineering. At Metabolix he is responsible for developing the Marketing and Sales organization required for the introduction of the company’s innovative Natural Resins to the marketplace as manufacturing gears up for the opening of the first production plant to be built with the company’s strategic partner, Archer, Daniels, Midland in Clinton, Iowa. Bob is also heading up the 50/50 joint venture Telles Business Team leading the efforts to develop the supply chain infrastructure to sell Mirel.
Brian F. Igoe
Vice President, Chief Brand Officer
Brian F. Igoe, has served as our chief brand officer and vice president since 2006. Mr. Igoe has over 25 years of branding and marketing experience in the consumer products and promotions arenas, and is responsible for branding, communications and corporate image related activities. He worked with the leadership team on the successful IPO of Metabolix in November of 2006, and the brand introduction of Mirel natural plastic in April of 2007. Previously for two years he was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Oco, Inc., and prior to that for 12 years as Vice President at AMP Agency, and Executive Vice President at TMP (acquired by AMP), where he worked with many major brands such as: Reebok International, VW, Qwest, Hasbro, Clarks, Jose Cuervo (Diageo), New Balance, and Dr.Pepper/7-Up on marketing and co-branding programs. Mr. Igoe spent 12 years in the athletic industry to start his career. He held a variety of progressively senior brand and marketing positions at both Nike and Reebok from start up brands, to becoming multi-billion dollar global marketing companies, and leaders in their industry.
