Ajit Nagral
CEO & Chairman
Seasoned entrepreneur who has built multiple companies in the Life Science and Technology Domain: Megaware, NuGenesis Technologies, Sciformix Corp. and Scitara Corp.
About Us
Meet the team.
Modernize the lab.
In an industry dominated by massive instrument and application vendors, Scitara offers an era-defining breakthrough powered by a neutral, third-party perspective. We’ve worked in labs for decades, understand the challenges of point-to-point technologies and have made it possible to break down the silos and liberate the data.
Our vendor-agnostic, iPaaS for Science enables science-based industries to integrate new and legacy instruments, applications and web services into a common, cloud-based platform. The result? Real-time data exchange that accelerates time to market—and scientific discovery.
Industry veterans, big thinkers & problem-solvers
Geoff Gerhardt, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder
Over 25 years leading R&D teams producing innovative technologies and products: Waters Corp., J&W Scientific Technologies and Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Vinayak Purohit
Chief Financial Officer
Senior Finance Professional with over 40 years of Corporate Finance experience across various industries. Headed Finance for GE India, HT Media, Thomas Cook India, Rediff.com and Sciformix.
Jeff R. Mazzeo, Ph.D.
Chief Marketing Officer
Recently appointed Chief Marketing Officer, Jeff a marketing innovator, brings 30 years of experience in life sciences, Waters Corp.
Fran Bates
VP – Customer Success
Over 25 years experience delivering customer success: CambridgeSoft, PerkinElmer, Sciformix.
Dave Levy
Vice President of Strategy, Partnerships
30 years of product and global account management. Introduced several game-changing products to market: Waters Corp., NuGenesis Technologies, CambridgeSoft Inc. and PerkinElmer Inc.
Nigel Heredia
VP of Operations
Senior executive and strategic level operations leader and manager at Scitara Corporation Ltd from Aug 2022 to date, heading Project Management, Service Delivery and Support.
Daniel DeAlmeida
Senior Director, Product Management
Scientist and Product Executive with decades of experience connecting technology and business to deliver customer focused solutions. BIOVIA, Dassault Systèmes, Spectral Analytical, Eurofins.
Guy Verrastro
Director of Strategic Accounts
Over 35 years in customer facing roles, including Systems Engineer, Informatics Business Management and Strategic Account Management: Waters Corp. and NuGenesis Technologies.
Our board
Ajit Nagral
CEO & Chairman
Seasoned entrepreneur who has built multiple companies in the Life Science and Technology Domain: Megaware, NuGenesis Technologies, Sciformix Corp. and Scitara Corp.
Andrea Jackson
Board Member
Director, Nortpond Ventures. Andrea has been working with convergent technologies for over 15 years. She has held leadership positions at PerkinElmer, Merck Millipore.
Rohit Khanna, Ph.D.
Board Member
Founder of Dynamic Solutions Corp. leader at Waters Corp., and a board member of multiple industry-leading organizations, Rohit brings nearly four decades of leadership experience to the table.
Chip Hazard
Board Member
General Partner at FlyBridge. Over 25 years of venture investing and board experience, Chip’s investment interests span companies and technologies across the information technology sector.
“A team of industry veterans, we’ve dedicated our careers to lab informatics innovation—and we’re committed to solving the decades-old data connectivity challenge. We know our solutions are foundational to laboratory digital transformation, which will help accelerate scientific discovery.”
—Ajit Nagral, CEO & Chairman