People

Board of Directors

Richard W. Roedel

Board of Directors - Chairman

N. Leigh Anderson

Board of Directors - Member

David Chanley

Board of Directors - Member

Pamela Coe

Board of Directors - Member

Scott A. Graeff

Luna CEO & Board of Directors - Member

Warren B. Phelps, III

Board of Directors - Member

Gary Spiegel

Board of Directors - Member

Mary Beth Vitale

Board of Directors - Member
Richard Roedel, Board of Directors Chairman

Richard W. Roedel

Board of Directors - Chairman

Mr. Roedel has served as chairman of Luna’s Board of Directors since January 2010. He has served as a member of Luna’s Board since September 2005 and is a member of the Board’s Nominating and Governance Committee and Compensation Committee. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at IHS Markit Inc. (NASDQ: INFO), Six Flags Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:SIX) and LSB Industries, Inc. (NYSE:LXU). He was a director of Lorillard, Inc. until 2015 when it was acquired by Reynolds American Inc and Sealy Corporation until 2013 when Sealy was acquired by Tempur-Pedic International, Inc. Mr. Roedel served as a director of BrightPoint, Inc. from 2002 until 2012, when BrightPoint was acquired by Ingram Micro. He served on the Board as chairman of the Audit Committee of Dade Behring Holdings, Inc. from October 2002 until November 2007 when Dade was acquired by Siemens AG. Mr. Roedel also served in various capacities at Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) from April 2004 until June 2005, including chairman and chief executive officer. From 1971 through 2000, he was employed by BDO Seidman LLP, becoming an audit partner in 1980, later being promoted in 1990 to managing partner in Chicago and then managing partner in New York in 1994, and finally in 1999 to chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. Roedel is a graduate of Ohio State University and a certified public accountant.

N. Leigh Anderson, Board of Directors Member

N. Leigh Anderson

Board of Directors - Member

N. Leigh Anderson, Ph.D. is a Founder and CEO of SISCAPA Assay Technologies, (www.SISCAPA.com). His interests are focused on the proteins of human blood as disease biomarkers, and the introduction of biomarker panels in clinical diagnostics using peptide-level mass spectrometry assays (the SISCAPA technology).  Dr. Anderson obtained a BA in Physics from Yale and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Cambridge University, working at the MRC laboratory of Molecular Biology on hemoglobin structure with M. F. Perutz, and later with Sydney Brenner.  Subsequently he co-founded (with Dr. Norman Anderson) the Molecular Anatomy Program at the Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago) where his work in the development of 2-D electrophoresis technology earned him the 1983 Pittsburgh Conference Analytical Chemistry Award and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s Young Investigator Award.  After leaving Argonne, Dr. Anderson was a founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Large Scale Biology Corporation, where he co-led a highly successful Nasdaq IPO in 2000.  Beginning work in clinical mass spectrometry in 2002, he founded and is CEO of the Plasma Proteome Institute, a non-profit biomedical scientific research institute in Washington, D.C., and SISCAPA Assay Technologies, Inc., whose core technology he invented and developed.  He has served on the boards of directors of three public technology companies including Dade Behring, a global diagnostics company acquired by Siemens, Luna Innovations and Large Scale Biology.  He has published 175 papers, been granted 44 US Patents, and was awarded the 2009 Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Distinguished Achievement Award in Proteomic Science.  SISCAPA received the 2014 HUPO Science and Technology Award.

David Chanley, Board of Directors Member

David Chanley

Board of Directors - Member

David Chanley joined the Luna Board in December 2023. A Co-Founder and Managing Partner with White Hat Capital Partners, he has more than 20 years of experience advising management teams and Boards of technology companies on market positioning, mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategies to create shareholder value. Over the course of his career, Mr. Chanley has demonstrated success helping companies effectively communicate their competitive strengths and investment highlights to the institutional investment community.

Prior to co-founding White Hat Capital Partners LP in 2016, Mr. Chanley was Managing Director and Co-Head of Stifel’s Global Technology Investment Banking Group where he oversaw coverage of all the firm’s technology sub-sectors including Communications, Electronics & Applied Technologies, Internet & Digital Media, Software & SaaS, Tech-Enabled Services and Telecom. In addition, he served as a Member of the Investment Banking Management Committee as well as the Fairness Committee. In 1999, he joined Thomas Weisel Partners just after its founding and became a Partner in 2007. Earlier in his career, Mr. Chanley was an Investment Banking Associate at Montgomery Securities and a Research Associate at Greenwich Associates.

During his investment banking career, Mr. Chanley developed extensive, deep relationships with corporate executives, board members, senior leaders of major private equity firms, hedge funds, law firms and investment banks. He provided strategic advice to management teams and Boards on a wide range of corporate transactions for leading public Technology companies. Mr. Chanley has also advised numerous public and private technology companies on strategic sales to industry leaders.

Mr. Chanley received his A.B. in Business Economics and Organizational Behavior & Management from Brown University in 1996 and has held various alumni leadership and board positions for Brown over the past 25 years. 
 

Pamela Coe - Board Member

Pamela Coe

Board of Directors - Member

Pamela Coe was elected to Luna's Board of Directors in May 2021 and brings with her significant legal and business knowledge and expertise, including experience in corporate governance matters, securities law, and executive compensation and compliance matters.  Ms. Coe served as Senior Vice President, Legal & Secretary for Liberty Media Corporation and its sister companies until her retirement in 2020.  Previously she was Senior Counsel - Finance for Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), which merged with AT&T. Prior to her tenure at TCI, Ms. Coe was a Partner in a major San Francisco based law firm Pettit and Martin. During her tenure, Coe specialized in corporate, securities and banking law. Coe has served on the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. since April 2021 and served as a member of the Board of Directors of Expedia Group, Inc. from December 2012 to July 2019. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Arizona State University and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Los Angeles – School of Law.

Scott Graeff, Luna CEO and Board of Directors Member

Scott A. Graeff

Luna CEO & Board of Directors - Member

Scott A. Graeff was appointed as Luna’s President & Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors in October 2017. Mr. Graeff joined Luna Innovations in August 2003. Throughout his tenure at Luna he has held various positions including Chief Strategy Officer, President of Luna Technologies, GM of Terametrix, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, EVP of corporate development and a member of our Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Luna, Mr. Graeff was a Partner at Gryphon Capital, a Virginia based venture capital fund. He has also been a co-founder of a software technology company that was sold to a Fortune 500 Company and held senior-level positions at various investment banking firms. In these various roles, Mr. Graeff has completed several public offerings and has been involved with mergers and acquisitions with a notional value of more than $8 billion. He is experienced in a broad range of capital market transactions, strategic planning and financial management. Mr. Graeff holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Virginia.

Warren B. Phelps, III, Board of Directors Member

Warren B. Phelps, III

Board of Directors - Member

Warren B. Phelps, III has served as Executive Chairman of Empower RF Systems, a developer and manufacturer of high power RF amplifiers for the defense and commercial markets, since January 2013. From 2009 until December 2012, Mr. Phelps served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Empower. Since 2007, Mr. Phelps has served as a director and Chairman of the audit committee of U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc., a public company.  From 2000 until his retirement in 2006, Mr. Phelps served in several executive positions for Spirent plc, a leading communications technology company, most recently as President of the Performance Analysis Broadband division. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Phelps was at Netcom Systems, a provider of network test and measurement equipment, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, Mr. Phelps held executive positions, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, at MICOM Communications and in various financial management roles at Burroughs/Unisys Corporation. Mr. Phelps currently serves on the board of directors of a privately held company and on the Board of Trustees of St. Lawrence University. Mr. Phelps holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York and an M.B.A. from The University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. The Nominating and Governance Committee believes that Mr. Phelps’s prior experience as a Chief Executive officer and with the defense and commercial industries enables him to make valuable contributions to the board of directors.

Gary Spiegel, Board of Directors Member

Gary Spiegel

Board of Directors - Member

Gary Spiegel is chairman of the Board’s Compensation Committee and a member of the Board’s Nominating & Governance Committee.  He has more than 35 years of experience in the photonics industry. He has held positions of vice president, Sales and marketing, senior vice president, Sales and Business Development, and senior vice president, Business Development at Newport Corporation from 2002 to 2013. Mr. Spiegel retired from Newport Corporation in 2014 and is currently a business development consultant. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Marketing from Baruch College of the City University of New York. He also sits on the Board of Telescent Inc., an early stage technology company focused on software defined network cross connect technology and is a member of SPIE Financial Advisory Committee and a member of the OSA Corporate Associate Committee.  

Mary Beth Vitale, Board of Directors Member

Mary Beth Vitale

Board of Directors - Member

Mary Beth Vitale has served as a member of Luna’s Board of Directors since September 2019 and is chairman of the Board’s Nominating & Governance Committee and a member of the Board’s Audit Committee.  In 2001, she co-founded Pellera, LLC., a consulting firm specializing in cybersecurity and board governance to boards of directors. Previously, she had served as President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of WestwindMedia.com, President and Chief Operating Officer of RMI.NET, and President-Western States and corporate officer for AT&T. She received her bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College; a Master’s degree from the University of Colorado; and an Advanced Management certificate from the Wharton School.  Ms. Vitale has been recognized as a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow and SEC qualified financial expert.  She currently is a faculty member for the NACD in board governance and cyber security training.  She is also a Co-Chair and founder of the Women Corporate Directors, Colorado Chapter.  Ms. Vitale also earned the CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight from the Software Engineering Institute, which demonstrates her commitment to advanced cybersecurity literacy to the Company, investors and regulators. Ms. Vitale also served on the board of directors of CoBiz Financial, a publicly traded national commercial bank, from 2005 to 2018 and on the board of directors of Zynex, Inc., a publicly traded medical technology company, from 2008 to 2014.

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