G. Wesley Hatfield

Dr. Hatfield has extensive academic and entrepreneurial experience. Throughout his professional career, he has been a strong advocate in support of technology transfer from the academic to the commercial sector and served on many UCI campus, UC system-wide, and state and national committees,. He has been a founder and investor in several biotechnology companies and served as a consultant to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and venture capital firms. Most recently, in 2013, he co-founded Actavalon Inc. where he served as CEO for four years and remains a member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Hatfield received his B.A. from UC Santa Barbara, his PH.D. from Purdue, and postdoctoral training at Duke, In 1970, he accepted a faculty position in the School of Medicine at UC Irvine. In 2012, he retired from UCI to spend full time on his entrepreneurial activities.