Business Management

Michael J. McManus, Ph.D.
President & Chief Operating Officer

Dr. McManus has over 11 years of scientific software and business experience, including e-commerce, strategic product planning, research and development, business development, product marketing, and product management expertise.

He has served as CambridgeSoft Corporation's Vice President of Marketing for the past three years, prior to which he served as their Director of Marketing, Director of Research and Development, Director of Research, and Director of Marketing and Technical Support. During this time Dr. McManus transformed CambridgeSoft from a traditional software publisher into an internet company with the leading chemistry e-commerce site. He tripled product revenue and increased business development revenue by a factor of four, including bringing in the single largest order in company history. He drove the creation of the strongest desktop chemistry software brand in the world with a product user base that grew from 20,000 to 250,000 users.

Dr. McManus received his Ph.D in synthetic organic chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.S. in chemistry, summa cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.