Leadership
Proven leadership guides Centice Corporation’s pursuit of innovative products and services
At all levels of our organization, Centice Corporation relies on driven, forward-thinking individuals to define our direction. Discover More… about the leaders who help us realize our vision and achieve success.
Executive Leadership Team
Arthur Bergens
Chief Financial & Administration Officer
John Davis
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Executive Leadership Bios
Arthur Bergens
Chief Financial & Administration Officer
Arthur Bergens became CFO of Centice in January 2006, boasting more than 20 years of experience in a wide range of financial leadership positions. Prior to joining Centice, he served as CFO for Unitive, Inc., a leader in advanced wafer packaging solutions for the semiconductor industry. Unitive was acquired in August 2004 by Amkor Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMKR), a publicly held company and one of the world’s leading providers of contract semiconductor manufacturing, assembly and test services. At Amkor, Arthur held the title of Vice President of Finance and Administration, making him responsible for financial leadership of Amkor’s new Wafer Level Packaging Business Unit.
Before working with Unitive, Arthur was Vice President and CFO for the Americas Region at Modus Media International, Inc., a global provider of supply chain management solutions to the high technology industry, with annual revenues of some $600 million. Arthur has served as CFO for TANO Automation, Inc., which develops, engineers and manufactures microprocessor-based control systems for the marine, oil, gas, water and wastewater industries. Arthur has also held the position of manager in the New Orleans office of Ernst & Young.
Arthur holds a MBA from Campbell University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of New Orleans, and is a licensed certified public accountant in both Louisiana and North Carolina.
John Davis
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
John Davis offers more than 19 years of senior-level sales and marketing experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare arenas. Considered a pharmacy domain expert, John remains committed to improving pharmacy operations and safety. While at Innovation, a leader in the pharmacy automation and workflow arena, he built a successful international sales force that spanned all the primary pharmacy market segments. He was Director of Sales, Pharmaceutical Distribution and Regional Sales Manager for Cardinal Health’s Atlantic region. During his tenure at Cardinal Health, John was continually recognized for his strong leadership and team-building skills and for leading sales growth, profitability and sales revenue. He has also held senior-level sales positions with McKesson HBOC and FoxMeyer Corporation. He is a member of multiple industry associations, including ASHP, NACDS and NCPA. John holds a bachelor’s of science degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
Prasant Potuluri, Ph. D.
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Prasant Potuluri is the Chief Technology Officer at Centice Corporation, primarily focusing on identifying and evaluating new technology and providing strategic vision and direction to the engineering group. He has pursued several federal grants for Centice and has won close to $1.4 million in research funds. He also strategically manages the Intellectual portfolio of the company.
Prior to co-founding Centice in 2004, Prasant was a graduate research assistant at Duke University and developed the company’s core computational sensor technology platform. His PhD thesis—titled “Multiplexed Optical Sensors for Reference Structure Tomography and Compressive Spectroscopy“—was the first demonstration of compressive sampling, a revolutionary concept. In 2004, Prasant was awarded the John T. Chambers Fellow for demonstrating excellence in classroom activities, research activities and for participation in Duke Activities. Prasant played a critical role in winning the grand prize at the Duke Startup Challenge.
Dr. Potuluri obtained a PhD from Duke University, a master’s degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor’s degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is a member of the Optical Society of America, SPIE and Sigma-Xi. He founded the Duke Chapter of the Optical Society of America and held the office of the President for the chapter during 2003-2004.
Board of Directors
Scott Albert
Chairman of the Board
General Partner, The Aurora Funds, Inc.
Scott Albert co-founded The Aurora Funds with Jeff Clark in 1994, after already spending nearly a decade in the venture capital industry. Having also spent time as an entrepreneur, he wanted to create an entrepreneurs-friendly venture capital firm that could offer hands-on support and guidance, in addition to funding. Today, he leads the IT investment team at Aurora and also oversees much of the day-to-day management of the firm, working closely with the CFO and Controller. He tries to make sure that everyone on the team does everything they can to support Aurora’s portfolio companies. He personally spends more than 50 percent of his time helping entrepreneurs create their go-to-market strategy, raise additional funds, address customer-oriented issues and develop exit strategies. He spends the remainder of his time dealing with internal operational issues, identifying and evaluating new deals and supporting entrepreneurial efforts of the greater RTP community. Prior to forming The Aurora Funds, Scott was the Chief Investment Officer of the North Carolina Technological Development Authority, Inc. (“NCTDA”), a state-funded corporation that supports technology-based entrepreneurial companies in North Carolina. While there, he led the new venture investment efforts and performed portfolio company monitoring for the NCTDA’s extensive statewide portfolio. Prior to serving at the NCTDA, he was at Criterion Venture Partners in Houston, Texas, as a General Partner for a $30 million pool of capital, and with Golder, Thoma and Cressey, in Chicago. In addition, he has served as President of a venture-backed start-up company. Before entering the venture capital industry, he was a consultant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton. During his venture capital career, Scott has helped close more than 40 investment deals, including a broad range of Information Technology and Life Science companies. Scott currently serves on the boards of several Aurora portfolio companies, including ALN Medical Management, Centice, psiloQuest, StrikeIron, Trivirix, Visitar, and WiDeFi. Scott was previously on the boards of Solution Technology (acquired by Rodel) and DataFlux (acquired by SAS) and led the investment in Blackboard (NASDAQ: BBBB). Scott has a bachelor’s of science in Engineering from Duke University and a MBA from the University of Chicago.
Tom Scholl
General Partner, Novak Biddle Venture Partners
Tom Scholl is a successful entrepreneur and investor with experience sitting on both sides of the boardroom table. He has more than 25 years of experience in communications systems, equipment, chipsets and software, and has been active in the high-tech start-up scene in the Washington metro area for more than15 years. Tom currently sits on the boards of portfolio companies Centice, Paratek, Princeton Optronics, Sennari, Command Information, Fiberzone Networks and Digital Bridge. In 1990, Tom founded Telogy Networks, a leader in providing embedded communications software products for wireless and IP networks. Telogy’s award-winning products were proven market successes with world-class customers such as Cisco, Motorola, Samsung, Nortel, Alcatel and NEC. In 1998, Motorola purchased Telogy’s digital cellular technology and development team for over $40M, and in 1999, Texas Instruments purchased Telogy as the leader in embedded VOIP software for over $700M. Prior to joining Novak Biddle, Tom co-founded and became chairman of Cognio, a developer of spectrum management and MIMO technology for short-range wireless applications. In 1995, he was recognized as the Joseph A. Sciulli “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Maryland High Technology Council. Prior to Telogy, Tom was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Hughes Network Systems, a combination of M/A-Com DCC and Linkabit. Tom is a member of the Board of Trustees at the University of Maryland and is also Chairman of the Board of Visitors at the Clark School of Engineering. Tom has patents relating to software, the Internet, and digital telephone systems, and he is the author of “Packet Switching” in McGraw Hill’s Electronic Communications Handbook. He’s a member of IEEE and ACM, and he is an alumnus of Purdue University and the Executive Management program at MIT Sloan School.
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Alan Levin
Pharmacy Industry Veteran
Alan Levin was formerly Chairman, President and CEO of Happy Harry’s, a leading regional drugstore chain with 2,700 employees and stores in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, until it was acquired by the Walgreen Company in 2006. Alan is a graduate of Tulane University and the Delaware Law School of Widener University. He previously served in the Delaware Department of Justice as a Deputy Attorney General and as Executive Assistant and Counsel to United States Senator William V. Roth, Jr. He assumed the position of Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Happy Harry’s when his father and founder of the business, Harry Levin, passed away in 1987. During his tenure, the company grew from 19 to 76 stores. Alan is also a past Chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
David Brady, PhD
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Centice Corporation
David Brady holds a B.A. in physics and mathematics from Macalester College and M.S. and Ph D degrees in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign from 1990 until joining the Duke faculty in 2001. Dr. Brady’s research focuses on computational optical sensors. He leads the DISP group (www.disp.duke.edu), which builds interferometric and coherence sensors for 3-D microscopy, Raman spectroscopy for biosensors, interferometric telescopy and biometric sensor networks. At the Fitzpatrick Center, David focuses on undergraduate and graduate education in photonics, with a particular emphasis on optics as an information science and optics education as a bridge between physical and digital systems.
