Indigo Company Overview

David was most recently CEO and Co-Founder of Anacor Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ANAC), a biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing novel small-molecule therapeutics to treat infectious and inflammatory diseases. The company was acquired by Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) in 2016 for approximately $5.2 billion. David previously co-founded and served as CEO of Chemdex (NASDAQ: CMDX), later creating its parent company Ventro Corporation (NASDAQ: VNTR), a business-to-business marketplace focused on the life sciences industry. At its peak, Ventro was valued at $11 billion and was later sold to Nexprise.

David is Founder and Chairman of the San Francisco-based digital health startup, Farewell, and a Director of the human microbiome company, Epiva.

In 2000, David was named Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California by Ernst and Young. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Tulsa. He also attended the United States Air Force Academy, where he was a National Merit Scholar. 

Geoffrey served as Chief Technology Officer at Seres Therapeutics, where he led the build-out of the Microbiome Therapeutics platform and the discovery of SER-109, the first clinically-validated Microbiome Therapeutic. He was also VP of Product Discovery at Axcella, where he led the discovery of two clinically-validated drug candidates.

Geoffrey has been named as an inventor on over 100 patents and applications and received more than 20 awards for invention, including the Lemelson-MIT student prize, given to the most innovative student at MIT. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics from MIT; a M.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego; and a S.B. in Chemical Engineering from MIT.

Gerard Keating has led global high-caliber engineering, program management, product, and operations teams, most recently at DataXu and Enpocket (acquired by Nokia). At DataXu, Gerard led the company’s engineering, operational, and product functions from inception, in 2009, through 2016. DataXu was ranked #1 Demand-Side Platform in 2011 and 2015 by Forrester Wave. At Dataxu and Enpocket, he established all product and engineering best practices. He has led multiple due diligence and cross-functional post-acquisition integration processes, most recently at DataXu to accelerate European and South American expansion. As CTO at Enpocket, Gerard was directly responsible for the sale and implementation of Enpocket’s flagship carrier-grade mobile advertising platform to Sprint, ultimately leading to an acquisition by Nokia.

Gerard has a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Wesleyan University and a M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University.

He then led product management for the entire marketing product through IPO and beyond, as the company scaled the customer and revenue base ten-fold. Before HubSpot, Jeremy led product and operations at Oneforty Inc, a venture-backed Techstars company, and led product development of the search analytics product at Compete, Inc.

Jeremy holds an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, an MS and BS in engineering from Dartmouth College, and a BS in physics from Bates College.

de Fontaine spearheaded the company’s overall technology strategy, devised a scalable and customer-oriented technology platform, and led the implementation of business systems to support the launch and growth of the company. Prior to Fresh Formats, de Fontaine spent three years at Ahold USA, the American affiliate of Royal Dutch Ahold and the owner of leading grocery brands such as Stop-and- Shop, Giant, and Peapod. As Vice President of IT Strategy and Architecture there, de Fontaine led the effort to define the technology roadmap for the company, established standards and governance, and launched a technology innovation function.

In addition to high-level leadership experience, de Fontaine brings deep knowledge in IT program delivery, which he acquired through previous roles as Director of IT Business Systems at Anheuser-Busch Inbev and Senior Manager of Business & Systems Integrations at Accenture.

Prior to Tala, Lauren served as VP of Strategy for Dstillery, a cross-device digital intelligence platform, as well as Chief Science Officer for EveryScreen Media, a mobile RTB and audience technology company acquired by Dstillery. Before her time at EveryScreen, Lauren managed the science, data assets, and data engineering teams at WPP's Kantar Compete, building large, global, multi-sourced digital consumer research panels and consumer analytics. 

In addition to her business leadership background, Lauren has significant board experience, currently serving on the data advisory board for the USA for UNHCR—a non-profit that supports the UN Refugee Agency—and the data science board for I-COM, a global organization focused on smart data marketing.  Lauren holds multiple patents in audience measurement and metadata creation. She also advises entrepreneurs and start-ups on data and data technology, helping past clients such as Similar Web, Unbound Concepts, JumpShell, and Tap Dog to optimize their data technology. 

Lauren obtained her PhD in Economics from Brown University. She speaks and writes extensively on innovation through mobile data, technology and analytics, and has taught at Brown, NYU, UCLA, and other universities.

Most recently, he served as VP of Engineering at Brightcove, the leading cloud-based video platform for marketers, broadcasters, and enterprises. Over the course of his seven years at Brightcove, Chris was at the forefront of Brightcove’s transformation from a web based application to an entire software platform. As Senior Director of Product Development, Chris oversaw five different teams and spearheaded the creation of a comprehensive CMS platform with new modern APIs built on microservices and new UIs build on top of those public APIs. Chris also oversaw the development of Brightcove’s first add on application, Gallery, which became the basis for the entire Video Marketing Suite. Before that, Chis had several hands-on roles focused on quality engineering, product ownership, and mobile development.

Before Brightcove, Chris worked at EBSCO Publishing, where he headed up numerous projects, implemented agile processes, and collaborated closely with the executive team in strategy development and resource management. Prior to his time at EBSCO, Chris was Development and QA Manager at Groove Mobile, later acquired by Livewire Mobile. He has also held senior-level manager and engineering positions at SaveJe, Ruckus, and ATG (now Oracle).

Chris earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tufts University. He currently lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts.