Spheryx Leadership
Advisors
Jeffrey Hall is a results-oriented, highly motivating manager with global sales and distribution, marketing, business development and customer care experience for analytical-based, high-technology products and services in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, polymer, chemical, food, agriculture, health surveillance and security markets. Previous experience includes over 5 years at Malvern Instruments, a leading global analytical instruments company where he led the introduction of new products and developed new markets to serve the pharmaceutical industry in the role of Global Head of Bioscience. He has also held leadership positions in a variety of other instruments companies. He now serves as an advisor to several early-stage companies in the areas of commercial operations and business development.
Scott Stephenson has over 25 years of experience in Compliance and Operations. He has led operations in both small and large organizations with responsibility for GMP operations, regulatory compliance both domestic and international, and quality assurance, as well as strategy and acquisitions. He has deep experience in the pharmaceutical industry including serving as a liaison to USP, FDA and other regulatory agencies. He is currently the Director of Monitoring at Full Spectrum Lab Services from CBRE.
Bonnie Tessler graduated from Williams College and went on to earn her law degree from NYU School of Law. After several years in legal practice, she decided to pivot her career, channeling her analytical training and attention to detail into the world of web design. What began as a side interest in coding and design soon grew into a full-scale professional path, leading her to establish a thriving business that creates and manages websites for a diverse range of clients.
Over time, her services expanded to include virtual administration, particularly for non-profit organizations in the municipal finance sector. Today, she provides comprehensive support to over a dozen non-profits, managing everything from online presence, event planning and communications to back-office operations. Her clients span a broad spectrum, from a top-rated Washington, DC tour guide and a cutting-edge technology startup to large professional networking groups, each partnership reflecting her commitment to quality, adaptability, and building lasting relationships.
Don is a successful scientist and business manager with strong technical background and years of experience in technology development for the life sciences including 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience in starting, operating, growing and selling a start-up high-tech business serving the life science markets. His experience ranges from experimental physical chemistry to microfluidics to business development, R&D in a national laboratory environment (Sandia National Labs), intellectual property development and management, product commercialization (Eksigent Technologies), technology transfer, merger and acquisition, integration into a global organization (Sciex / Danaher) and manufacturing transfer. In his current roles with Veristad and General Inception, Don leverages his experience to advise and assist other entrepreneurs on their technology commercialization journeys, including working with Spheryx to help deliver robust cutting-edge tools for particle characterization.
Anne Hjortshoj is a product design leader and domain expert with expertise in building design capabilities from the ground up, and transforming organizations through strategic UX leadership across automotive, B2B SaaS, FinTech, EdTech, and digital commerce sectors. She has successfully built and scaled design functions at multiple organizations, including creating CarGurus's first design team that helped fuel 2.5X+ revenue growth to $1.7B. Anne now serves as a fractional leader, advisor, and coach, transforming design teams, leveling up craft quality, and helping organizations maximize business outcomes from their investment in design. She works with Spheryx to advise on user experience.
Erik Hjortshoj is the Chief Technology Officer at Grouper, bringing over 30 years of technical and product leadership experience to early-growth health and wellness companies. Throughout his career, Erik has built and scaled technology solutions for organizations including AmWell, ShapeUp, Burning Glass, Wellist, SecureSeniorConnections, and Grouper, working extensively with both healthcare payers and providers. His deep technical expertise spans large data aggregation, search engines, machine learning, and AI, NLP, search, and analytics capabilities. Erik is passionate about building product that truly engage and help people. A proponent of lightweight, practical development practices, Erik has spent 15 years leading distributed and local teams while bootstrapping and mentoring new teams across Development, Research, User Experience Design, Product, QA, DevOps, and Operations. Erik serves as a product development advisor to early-stage companies, including Spheryx.
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