Leadership Team
Peter Dresslar, President and CEO
Peter Dresslar founded Torrey Path in 2007 and serves today as its President and CEO. Peter has worked a range of capacities in the information technology industry, with specialization in areas of knowledge management, workflow implementation, and business change. Prior to founding Torrey Path, Peter served as Program Manager on a multi-million dollar knowledge management project for one of the world’s largest drug makers.
In 2002, Peter was posted with Keane, Inc. as a Principal Consultant on its sizable General Motors engagement. Other past projects include management and lead analyst roles on projects for clients including ABN-AMRO, Hyperion Software Corporation, Daymon Worldwide, TD Waterhouse, and Pioneer (a DuPont company). Previously, Peter was a founding member and manager at Northern Cross Partnerships, a Grand Rapids-based web consulting and staffing startup.
Peter also serves as an adjunct research faculty member at the University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy, where he collaborates on research projects and participates in the Michigan Alliance for Cheminformatic Exploration (MACE) group. His first publication in this role, describing the BUDA text mining project, published in Nucleic Acids Research early in 2008. Peter graduated from the University of Michigan in 1993 with a degree in Economics.
Sirimon O-Charoen, Senior Research Scientist
As Senior Research Scientist, Dr. O-Charoen leads our efforts to develop quality and meta-analysis metrics that better validate and add meaning to public and customer data.
Prior to joining Torrey Path as a Senior Research Scientist, Sirimon served as a Graduate Student Instructor and Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Michigan. In these positions she was responsible for research design and advising on a range of specialized topics including: chemical kinetics, micro and nanofluidics, oligonucleotide parallel synthesis, gene expression, molecular simulation, numerical simulation, bioinformatics and cheminformatics.
Sirimon holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Chemical Engineering. She also earned a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, with the highest honors available.
Scientific Advisory Board
David J. Wild, Ph.D. has many years experience in scientific computing, with a B.Sc. in Computing Science and a Ph.D. in Cheminformatics from Peter Willett’s Information Studies group in Sheffield, U.K. He worked for five years as a project leader in the Pharmaceutical Industry, with particular experience in the development of algorithms and techniques to tackle complex research problems, and in software and interface design for applications used by scientists. David is currently an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the of Cheminformatics program at Indiana University School of Informatics.
Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D. is one of the most respected names in bioinformatics. Dr. Bourne, a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego and a Co-Director of the Protein Data Bank, is the author of numerous books and scientific papers. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute and the Keck Graduate Institute. He is a Past President of the International Society for Computational Biology, an elected fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal PLoS Computational Biology. He is on the Editorial Boards of Proteins: Structure Function and Bioinformatics, Biosilico and IEEE Trends in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He has been a long standing member of the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health panels responsible for reviewing proposals relating to biological infrastructure and bioinformatics.