Alain Cappeluti

Mr. Cappeluti has more than 30 years of experience in finance and public accounting for private and public companies, with more than 20 of those years spent in the biotech industry working for BioReliance, Human Genome Sciences (HGS), and CoGenesys. As the second employee of HGS in 1992 at the start of the human gene sequencing effort, he held positions of increasing responsibility and served for many years as Vice President of Finance. He has managed both large and small internal financial operations and has participated directly in approximately $4 billion of corporate financing transactions including private and public financings; IPOs; mergers and acquisitions; and real estate transactions. He led one of the largest real estate transactions in Maryland history while at HGS when the company executed a sale lease back on its corporate headquarters and large scale GMP manufacturing facilities. Mr. Cappeluti was part of the team that spun out Cogenesys from HGS in 2006 and was the CFO until the company was sold to Teva Pharmaceuticals in 2008. As a customer of CRO services in previous biotechnology industry positions, Mr. Cappeluti developed a keen awareness of quality and service issues that inform his leadership at Noble. He also serves on the board of O-Traces, Inc., an early stage cancer diagnostics company, and is a consultant to other life science companies.