Management Team

William Warren, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer

William L. Warren is CEO and a founder of VaxDesign Corporation. He has been charged with amalgamating business and technical directions along with identifying and bridging the chasms that exist between technology discoveries and business opportunities.

Prior to this, he directed a diverse portfolio of R&D programs at DARPA in the Defense Sciences Office from water purification and desalination, to digital printing processes, to molecular electronics, to the workings of small machines to name a few. Warren was a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, and received his B.Sc. Honors and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Science from The Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Warren is the author of over 180 referred publications, the editor of three conference proceedings, has over 170 scientific presentations, 7 patents issued, over a dozen pending patents and provisional patents on topics such as in vitro immune models, microparticle-related immunotherapies, RF communications, water desalination, semiconductor memories and infrared detectors.

Dr. Warren has received three R&D 100 awards, the Frost and Sullivan Product Leadership Award, the Industry Week Innovation Award, the Discover Magazine Award, the Xerox Materials Research Award, and several outstanding paper awards. He has organized or co-organized 5 international conferences; is on the board of directors of BioFlorida and a member of the Florida Life Sciences Advisory Committee, and a founding member of bioOrlando.