Meet our Board.

Harlan Batrus is the Synexis founding investor after several 2007 presentations by chemical engineer, Jim Lee. In 2008, Harlan recruited private equity investors Jonathan Kagan, John Myers, and Charles Craig as early participants.

Harlan worked at Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Lazard. He was a Lazard Partner from 1982 to 2007 in charge of the Fixed Income Department. He was the 1988 founding investor of Ryan Labs Asset Management and served as Chairman until 2015. In April 2015, Ryan Labs merged into Sun Life of Toronto, Canada. He received advice from Jon Kagan on the transaction.

Harlan graduated from The Wharton School at Penn. He serves on the Cardiovascular Council for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a board member of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) based in New York City. His office is at Ryan Labs Asset Management located at 500 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

David Jefferds, CFA is Co-Founder of DealVector, a bondholder communications platform and registry that augments the DTC infrastructure of finance for over 1000 issuers, investors, banks, custodians, and broker-dealers. In the last year, DealVector has worked with market participants to facilitate over $150 billion in consent solicitation efforts. David was formerly Head of Investments at LCM Advisors overseeing portfolio management and investment staff for a global strategy exceeding $500 million. His career has focused on investing in and trading less liquid assets, particularly private companies and structured credit vehicles. He began his career at Lehman Brothers, where he was a Vice President, trading fixed income and commodity derivatives. He is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.

Stuart Kinder works at a major US investment bank where he runs the Refined Products and Natural Gas Liquids trading businesses.  Over a fifteen-year career in investment banking, he has built several highly successful trading teams in fixed income and commodities for several banks.  Prior to his career on Wall Street, Mr. Kinder was an Infantry Captain in the United States Army with service in Desert Shield/Desert Storm.  He is a graduate of the US Army Airborne, Air Assault, and Ranger schools.  Mr. Kinder holds a BS in Computer Science from West Point and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Bryan Marsal is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Alvarez & Marsal (A&M). In 1983, he co-founded A&M to deliver specialized business advisory and crisis management services to distressed and under-performing companies. A&M today is recognized as a leading global professional services firm that provides turnaround management, performance improvement and business advisory services to clients spanning multiple industry sectors. The firm has grown to more than 5,300 people based in 26 countries and 66 locations, serving companies and governments around the world.

Mr. Marsal served for three years as Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers, overseeing the largest bankruptcy in history. He also served as Chief Restructuring Officer of HealthSouth, the largest domestic outpatient surgery, diagnostic testing and physical rehabilitation services provider. Previously, he served as the Chief Restructuring Manager of Arthur Andersen LLP, Chairman and CEO of Cluett American Corp., Republic Health Corp., Anthony Manufacturing, Gitano and Cherokee. Mr. Marsal earned a B.B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Morse is the president of Morse Partners, Inc., an investment firm, which concentrates on acquiring operating companies and providing expansion capital.  He is also a general partner at Permit Capital, LLC, a private investment firm.  He was Chairman of Bankrate Inc., the Internet’s leading consumer banking marketplace from 1997 until 2017 when the firm was taken private by Red Ventures.  He was CEO from 1993 – 1997. He served as Chairman of the Board of FAO Schwarz, the national chain of children’s gift stores, from 1986 to 1990 and has served as a director of several private companies. He currently serves as a director of Oxbow Corporation.

Mr. Morse is a Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and a Trustee of the J.M. Foundation.  Mr. Morse is a Trustee Emeritus of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where he served as a trustee from 1982 to 2010 and was Chairman of the Investment Committee of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia from 1987 to 2010.  Mr. Morse served as a member of the Board of Directors of Georgetown University from 2004 to 2010.  Mr. Morse holds a B.S.B.A. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Peter John Sacripanti is a partner in the international law firm McDermott Will & Emery and formerly served as Chairman of the firm’s executive committee and co-chair of the Firm. He has more than 37 years’ experience as a lawyer, advisor and counsellor to the CEOs and general Counsels of major corporations, including over 20 years as national trial counsel to two Fortune 50 corporations.

Mr. Sacripanti has been a public company director with experience in operations; special committee assignments; recruitment and compensation.  He is currently chairman of the compensation committee at Citrix the leading virtualization company.   Mr. Sacripanti also serves as a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees at Citrix and he is a former member of the Audit Committee for Citrix as well as LogMeIn Inc. a former public company which he helped take private in 2019.

Mr. Sacripanti also serves as a trustee fellow of Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York; is a member of the Columbia University Medical Center board of Advisors and chair of the Cardiac Council for the Columbia University Medical Center; and serves as a member of the Columbus Citizens Foundation.

Mr. Sacripanti holds a JD from Pace University School of Law and a BA from Fordham University.