SCIENCE

Via Science debuted as a "big data" analytics company to enable partners across a spectrum of industries turn increasing quantities of "data exhaust" into computational models that predict future outcomes under billions of "what if?" scenarios. High-throughput simulations of interventions into these models are used to uncover the "needles in a haystack" that drive increased productivity, revenues and the identification of cost-saving measures. Via Science's platform, REFSTM (Reverse Engineering/Forward Simulation), has been utilized for drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical industry for years by industry leaders such as Biogen Idec, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer, and marketed and supported by GNS (Gene Network Sciences), now a subsidiary of Via Science under the new name GNS Healthcare. Via Science's second subsidiary, Fina Technologies, which recently raised $4.5 million Series A last December, is leveraging REFS technology for quantitative financial trading in the financial markets.

"Our REFS technology and applications have the power to help industries get their arms around the exponential increases in data being captured in this new era of information -- via science," stated Colin Hill, CEO of Via Science. "Our technology puts us on the cutting edge of generating and extracting hypotheses from data in an automated manner with supercomputers. This positions us well to incubate and launch new companies across a growing number of industry verticals and become a big data computing powerhouse with several market-leading operating companies. "

Via Science's new board member, Duncan McFarland, has served as a director of NYSE Euronext and its predecessors since June 2006. He retired in June 2004 as the chairman and chief executive officer of Wellington Management Company, one of the largest global, independent investment managers, after a career of nearly 40 years. He currently serves on the board of two public companies, The Asia Pacific Fund and Gannett Mr. McFarland formerly served as a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation (parent of the Financial Accounting Standards Board). Mr. McFarland also serves as a trustee of the Claneil Foundation, which primarily serves communities within the greater Philadelphia region, and the Bromley Charitable Trust. He is also a director of New Profit, Inc., a non-government organization that primarily serves inner-city constituencies. He is also a trustee of RARE, a global environmental organization.