Co-founded by Dr. Matthew Naythons and Peter Goggin, Malaria.com is guided by an international advisory board from the worlds of media, epidemiology and technology.

Board of Advisors

Rune Bech

Rune Bech is a Danish Internet and media entrepreneur who founded Europe's largest health portal NetDoctor.com and for six years was the Internet director of Denmark's dominant television network TV 2. Presently he is chairman of the leading fiber broadband service provider Smile Content A/S (Aarhus), the hosting and data centre company PointZero Hosting (Odense), the health services company SundhedsDoktor (Copenhagen) and the online health services company E-Doktor.dk (Odense). He is also a columnist for the leading Danish business daily, Borsen.

Michael Castleman

Michael Castleman has been called "one of the nation's top health writers" (Library Journal). He is the author of 13 consumer medical guides, among them: Nature's Cures, The Healing Herbs, and Before You Call the Doctor, Castleman has also written more than 1,500 articles for magazines and the Web. As a longtime scuba diver, Castleman has traveled to many locales where malaria is a major health problem. Personal use of malaria prophylaxis piqued his interest in the disease—and a commitment to help control it.

Mike Clary

Mike Clary is a respected Silicon Valley executive known for accelerating innovation in the information technology and energy industries alike. Clary has a unique capacity for developing advanced technologies, defining and protecting intellectual property assets, and guiding the process of bringing innovation from inception to market.

Clary was an executive in residence at leading venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). Separately, Clary is founder and CEO stealth energy companies GMZ Energy, Inc., thermoelectric materials company, and Solasta, Inc., an advanced solar cell company Both companies are funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In 2004 Mr. Clary served as president and CEO of Nanostar, Inc, a KPCB-backed company dedicated to commercializing energy conversion properties of carbon nanotechnologies.

Previously, Clary was an executive at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he worked for 17 years. During his tenure at Sun, he led the licensing and adoption of the revolutionary Java and led networking technologies Jini, JXTA , and and network storage products. He was vice president of research at Aspen Smallworks, a specialized Sun Microsystems' research lab, vice president of Global Software Sales and Services, as well as vice president, general manager of Consumer Technologies.

Clary holds an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California, and a B.A in Economics from the University of California, Davis. He also serves on the board of Radar Networks.

Mary Ellen Guroy MD

Mary Ellen Guroy, M.D., is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine in Infectious Diseases and certified in travel and tropical medicine. She is in private practice in Sausalito, California in infectious diseases, serves as a consultant to the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services, and is an associate of the Northern California Travel Clinic.

Michael J. Kleeman

Michael Kleeman is a technology industry strategist whose particular skill is in bridging technical and business issues. For over 30 years he has been involved in the technology industry in engineering, planning, management and advisory roles. He has also worked with a number of start-up firms and been an executive manager in both the consulting and technology industry.

His work in disaster response spans a decade, working with the American Red Cross, first as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Board of Governors, the leadership board for the San Francisco Bay Area chapter and now with National Headquarters as the National Chair of Strategy. He was part of the team which developed the Bay Area regional preparedness initiative (BACEP) and is the technical and business advisor to CAN, the Coordinated Assistance Network (www.can.org). His work has included both disaster preparedness and response, as well as planning for pandemic events and public health risk communications.

He holds an MA from the Claremont Graduate School, and an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University. He serves on the Boards of Equal Access, a not-for-profit providing digital satellite radio services to developing nations and the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. He is a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center at USC and is on the advisory council for the San Diego Technology Council.

Judith Thurman

Judith Thurman, a Staff Writer at the New Yorker, spent considerable time in East Africa researching Isak Dinesen; The Life of a Storyteller, a biography that won a National Book Award for Non-fiction, and served as the basis for Sydney Pollack's Oscar-winning film, Out of Africa, on which Thurman was the Associate Producer. She is also the author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, winner of the Los Angeles Times and Salon book awards for biography; and, most recently, a collection of her New Yorker essays, Cleopatra's Nose.

Lew Tucker

Lew Tucker has more than twenty years experience in high technology—ranging from advanced research to engineering management, software development, and partner relations.

Most recently, Tucker served as CTO and VP of Engineering at Radar Networks. Radar is an early stage Internet startup which recently launched Twine.com, a new consumer service built upon the semantic web. Before joining Radar Networks, he was a vice president at Salesforce.com where he created the AppExchange, a strategic initiative to transform Salesforce.com into becoming a general on-demand platform for business applications.

Prior to joining Salesforce.com, Tucker spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems, in a variety of roles. Most recently, as vice-president of Sun's Internet Services group, managing Sun.com, and all affiliate sites. This position was created by Sun's CEO to re-invent the business, technical strategy, and vision for Sun's usage of the internet to manage business and marketing relationships with customers, partners, and developers.

Alain-jacques Valleron, Dr Sc

Alain-jacques Valleron has pioneered the real time electronic surveillance of infectious diseases by developing, long before the Internet (in 1984) the French Communicable Diseases Network, which collects, analyzes, and redistributes in real time the information provided online by sentinel GPs. His research group is the World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating center for electronic surveillance of diseases. He also has broad experience in the modeling and epidemiology of major infectious diseases (AIDS, Viral Hepatitis C, Influenza, and the new variant of the Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease).

Valleron graduated in Math from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and later presented a PhD thesis on the modeling of cell cycle and tumor growth. He is currently professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University Pierre et Marie Curie and is the director of the Paris Doctoral School of Public Health. He chairs the board of the French National Institute for Blood Transfusion, and is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.