Tom Lee, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors

 Mr. Lee is a Founder and member of the Board of Directors of GreenJay. During a career spanning over 43 years, he has been actively involved in managing, shaping and expanding pharmaceutical and biotechnology, medical imaging technologies/companies. From 1999 to 2016, Mr. Lee was Director of the Active Venture Development  Office (Technology Commercialization) at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. During his tenure, he reviewed approximately 2,800 invention disclosures and he was instrumental in creating over 45 companies. Collectively, these companies raised over $1.0 billion from outside funding or follow-on investments.Several of the early-stage companies emanated from within the Active Venture Development Office were internally developed to Series A financing. 

Mr. Lee currently is a co-founder and President of the Medical Innovators Company, LLC (MIC), a Cooperative Venture with the University of Texas Health Science Center. The mission of this venture was to aid and assist academic scientists to seek SBIR and STTR funding and bridge them from the
bench to commercialization.

During his career, Mr. Lee was also employed in various capacities including sales, sales management, marketing and senior management by A.H. Robbins, Mallinckrodt Diagnostics, Kardiothor, Optex Biomedical, Inc., Positron, Inc.,Zonagen. Inc. and Race Oncology. 

Mr. Lee received his bachelor degree in Economics from The University of Texas in Austin in 1973, and later received a Management Study Program degree from Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, in 1981. Moreover, he is a co-inventor of one now expired US patent