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Athenaeum Fund is supported by 65 individual investors from across the
United States. The Fund's management comprises two managing members, two
limited members, and an advisory board. The managing and limited members
have over 50 years of experience of profitable investing, starting successful
companies and commercializing products.
The Athenaeum Fund was founded by John Baldeschwieler, Malcolm Cloyd and John Glanville.
Managing Members
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Dr. John Baldeschwieler
received a degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University
in 1956 and in 1959 a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University
of California, Berkeley. His military service in the U.S. Army was
followed by five years of teaching and research as a member of the
faculty at Harvard University. In 1965, he moved to Stanford as Professor
of Chemistry. During his last two years at Stanford, he was on leave
of absence as Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology
in the White House. From 1973 until the present, Professor Baldeschwieler
has been at the California Institute of Technology as Professor of
Chemistry, and for five years also as Chairman of the Division of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
A Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy
of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Dr.
Baldeschwieler also served on a large number of national, scientific
and advisory committees, as well as on the editorial boards of several
journals. He has most recently served as Chairman of the Academy
Committee on Commercial Aviation Security, as an advisor to the
FAA, as a member of the Presidential Commission on Gulf War Veterans’
Illnesses, and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science
and Technology for Countering Terrorism, and as Co-Chairman of the
National Science Foundation-US Intelligence Community Workshop On
Approaches to Combating Terrorism. He was a founder of Vestar Inc.
and served as Chairman of its Board of Directors until it was merged
with NeXagen Inc. to form NeXstar Pharmaceuticals. He served as
a Director of NeXstar until it was acquired by Gilead Pharmaceuticals
Inc. He was also a founder and Director of Combion Inc. until it
was acquired by Incyte Geonomics, Inc. He serves as a Managing Member
of The Athenaeum Fund, as Chairman of the Board of Pasadena Entretec,
and as a Director of the Huntington Medical Research Institutes,
as well as several privately held companies.
Dr. Baldeschwieler pioneered the utilization of nuclear magnetic
resonance and double resonance spectroscopy, nuclear Overhauser
effects, ion cyclotron resonance and perturbed angular correlation
spectroscopy in chemical problems. His latest contributions concentrate
on the use of phospholipid vesicles in cancer diagnosis and therapy,
on the development of scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy
for the study of molecules on surfaces, and on novel techniques
for producing combinatorial arrays of oligonucleotides. He received
the 2000 National Medal of Science for his contributions to science
and public service, the American Chemical Society 2001 Award for
Creative Invention and the 2003 Othmer Gold Medal of the Chemical
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Malcolm Cloyd has
served as President, Vice President and General Manager of manufacturing
and service businesses with domestic and international markets for
over 27 years. He has directed business units that were the largest
cash contributors for two major corporations and has conducted turnarounds
of under-performing businesses for both large corporations and privately
held companies.
Mr. Cloyd has been heavily involved with marketing and has directed
the development and commercialization of new products and services.
He assisted with the development of an information service that
was used in the oil and gas industry, which utilized the combined
technology of geophysical and electronic well logging. He also helped
to develop the first use of solid state electronic controllers with
large electric motors and other equipment to improve the operating
efficiency of large-scale applications.
Mr. Cloyd has degrees in management, science and literature. |
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John Glanville
has over twenty years of project management experience, including
five years as the Manager of New Construction at Caltech.
While at Caltech he directed the design and construction of
four buildings and laboratories, including the Gordon and Betty Moore
Laboratory of Electrical Engineering.
In addition, he has held a variety of project management positions
for nationally recognized general contractors in California, Connecticut
and Texas.
Mr. Glanville is a member of The Caltech Associates
and has been a board member since 1993.
He served as The Associates’ President during 2000 and is
now an Emeritus Director. He
is a member of the Advisory Board for Student Faculty Programs at
Caltech, which includes the SURF Program (Summer Undergraduate Research
Fellowships). He has been elected to serve as Chairman of the SURF Board from 2001
to 2003. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Los Angeles
County Business Technology Center in Altadena, California and is
actively involved with the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Mr. Glanville holds degrees in Architecture from
Lehigh University and a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering
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Charles Jackson
is President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Community Bank in Pasadena, CA. Community Bank
is a business bank, founded in 1945, with approximately $1.5 billion
is assets.
Mr.Jackson has over twenty-five years of management experience in
commercial banking, private banking, and investment management. Most
recently, Jackson held the position of Managing Director of Lipper
& Co., an investment management and investment banking firm, where
he was responsible for all west coast operations including marketing,
sales and investment banking activities.
Mr. Jackson has served on the board of advisors at the UCLA/John Anderson
Graduate School of Management, the board of The Boston Safe Deposit
and Trust Company of California as well as a member of the Director's
Council for the Institute of Theoretical Physics at UCSB. He has also
served on the board of directors for the Los Angeles Master Chorale,
one of the operating companies of the Los Angeles Music Center. Mr.
Jackson is currently the Chairman of the Dean's Council of the Gevirtz
Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa
Barbara (UCSB) and is a trustee of Woodbury University.
Mr. Jackson holds a Master of Business Administration degree in
international business from George Washington University, as well
as a
bachelor's degree in international affairs from The School of Foreign
Service at Georgetown University. |
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