The Aromyx management team is a group of professionals with an established track record in the fields of GPCR structure and crystallization, olfactory bioscience, assays and sensor systems and commercialization of early-stage technologies. Members of the Aromyx team unlocked the secrets of olfactory amplification and dynamic range and have since designed a human olfactory array for the discovery, replication and design of odorants.

Chris Hanson, Founder
Mr. Hanson has been involved with early-stage technologies for more than 20 years and has strong sales and management expertise. He founded Aromyx in April of 2006 to commercialize then-emerging technologies in the area of human olfaction. He has a successful background in getting research-stage technologies through productization and to market. He has experience in research program design and research funding, and starting new ventures. Mr. Hanson has led the creation of the Aromyx IP portfolio, which comprises some 29 issued U.S. and 49 issued foreign patents. He was educated at Stanford University. 

Dr. Bill Harries, Chief Scientist
Dr. Harries earned his Ph.D. in human anatomy and cell biology with a minor in biochemistry from Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Harries has extensive graduate and undergraduate teaching experience and is a former assistant professor at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Harries determined the high resolution X-ray structure of the integral membrane protein, aquaporin 0 and has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, review articles and book chapters on the membrane protein structure and function. Dr. Harries is currently the acting chief scientific officer and day to day manager of the Center for Structures of Membrane Proteins (CSMP), a specialized center of the National Institutes Of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Protein Structure Initiative at the University of California San Francisco. He is responsible for developing state of the art membrane protein expression, purification, crystallization, and structure determination methods and instrumentation.

Ed Costello, Vice President, Engineering
Mr. Costello has designed and implemented complex embedded and remote sensor systems in government and industry for over 20 years. While earning his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Cal State Hayward, he designed software for commercial in-vivo radiation detection systems used to monitor employees at nuclear reactors and weapons plants. He worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for more than 14 years on projects including image analysis for Nova Laser targets and high-speed laser control/monitoring systems. He designed and implemented the field sensor software for LLNL's Argus Security System - now the standard throughout the Department of Energy and Department of Defense complex. Mr. Costello has since led software architecture and advanced application teams at startups HyperSpectral Sciences and Command Audio/iBiquity Digital Radio, and cross-platform runtime development teams at Adobe Systems and Hewlett-Packard.