About Protein Metrics
Advancing Scientific Discovery
Protein Metrics provides a platform solution for biotherapeutic analytical study from research through to industrial production. Whether it is identifying proteins for proteomics or providing comprehensive data analysis, our proprietary algorithms offer deeper insights and more accurate results.
Trusted by the world’s leading research organizations
Meet Our Leadership Team
Eric Carlson, Ph.D.
President & CEO
As President & CEO, Eric has established Protein Metrics as a leader in protein characterization providing best-in-class products to industry and academia. Before joining Protein Metrics, Eric was a co-founder and senior vice president of Freeslate and spent 12 years at Symyx Technologies. Eric has repeatedly created teams that develop tools focused on usability and efficiency, shortening development timelines, and making scientists more impactful in their organizations.
He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from NC State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He is an inventor of 38 published patents, is the lead author on a chapter on automation for stress testing studies in “Pharmaceutical Stress Testing: Predicting Drug Degradation,” 2nd Edition (Informa, 2011), and is co-author on a wide variety of papers showing new developments in the biopharmaceutical industry.
Marshall Bern, Ph.D.
VP of Research / Co-Founder
Marshall Bern is an obsessive problem solver, starting with chess and bridge in high school and college, and later in scientific pursuits including signal and image processing, combinatorial optimization, computational geometry, and bioinformatics. His particular passion is algorithm design and analysis.
Prior to Protein Metrics, Marshall was a Principal Scientist, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he invented groundbreaking algorithms for origami design, finite-element mesh generation, and surface reconstruction from scanned point sets. He has about 20 patents and about 200 peer-reviewed publications in leading computer science, mathematics, and chemistry journals.
Marshall received a B.A. in mathematics from Yale, M.A. in applied mathematics and statistics from University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Yong Kil, Ph.D.
VP of Architecture / Co-Founder
Yong’s passions for scientific visualization and massive data analysis inspired him to co-found Protein Metrics.
With a keen understanding of proteomics and mass spectrometry, he works tirelessly to create consumer-like software interfaces within the industrial software engineering experience.
Yong received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Davis.
When he’s not glued to his computer screen, Yong can be found hiking, rock climbing, or hitting the slopes.
Mojgan Haddad, Ph.D.
Vice President of Engineering
Mojgan has held leadership positions of Software and Bioinformatics teams at Corin Group, Talis Biomedical, HealthTell, and Monogram Biosciences (a LabCorp company). Mojgan received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and her Master’s in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Vienna University of Technology in Austria, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in Mathematical and Computational Biology.
She has published extensively in the area of data science and machine learning for personalized medicine, and is also an inventor of multiple patents.
St John Skilton, Ph.D
VP Product Strategy and Marketing
St John has been at the forefront of product development for many years, with deep domain experience in MS,related analytical tools and the biopharmaceutical industry,
Previously at Danaher, Waters, Micromass and other startups, St John has extensive experience in bringing new products to market. His experience in sales, marketing, business development, and analyst roles has helped provide a rounded view of product portfolios and how to deliver tools that are meaningful for customers.
St John studied Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the University of Cape Town, and has a PhD from the University of Fribourg. He has been an author on many papers and with an affinity for languages has lived in the U.K. France, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Korea and South Africa.
Steve Cypes
VP of Global Sales and Services
Steve Cypes brings over 15 years experience developing and commercializing disruptive technologies impacting the Life Sciences and Materials Science industries.
He was the VP of Workflow Sales at Unchained Labs, with worldwide responsibility for sales activities for the company's automated, high-throughput workflow products. Steve was previously with Freeslate (acquired by Unchained Labs in 2016) as VP of Business Development, and was with Symyx Technologies prior to Freeslate in roles which included Director of Research, Product Management and Sales.
Steve holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. from Cornell’s Johnson School of Management.
