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 Eric T. Fossel, PhD, Founder & CEO
Eric T. Fossel, CEO, founded Strategic Science & Technologies, Inc. (SSTI) in 1995. Prior to founding SSTI, he served as Professor of Radiology and Director of Research in Radiology at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fossel determined that the focus of SSTI would be transdermal delivery of the nitric oxide precursor, L-Arginine. The role of nitric oxide in controlling local blood flow is one of the most important medical discoveries of the 1990s. Three researchers shared the 1998 Nobel Prize for this discovery and nitric oxide was declared the molecule of the year that same year by the journal Science. Dr. Fossel, after three years of intense laboratory work, developed a system for the transdermal delivery of L-Arginine. He filed several patents on this system and its applications. Four US patents have been issued thus far. Numerous other applications are pending, both in the US and internationally. The transdermal technology has recently been extended beyond L-Arginine to pharmaceutical agents such as ibuprofen, naproxen, acyclovir and prednisone. It is this intellectual property that forms the basis of SSTI and its operating company Strategic Science & Technologies , LLC. (SST,LLC) which was founded in 2004.
Dr. Fossel obtained his BA, MS and MPhil degrees from Yale University in the field of Chemistry. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry and MTS in Theology from Harvard University. For twenty-five years from 1970 to 1995 he was a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School, working in several departments and in several fields. He was made an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association for his work on cardiac metabolism with nuclear magnetic resonance. He was instrumental in establishing the first human MRI program in the world at Massachusetts General Hospital in the late 1970s. In addition to cardiac metabolism, he has worked on cancer diagnosis and treatment, red blood cell metabolism, and peptide and protein structure, among other topics. Dr. Fossel is the author of more than 100 peer reviewed articles, chapters and monographs and has presented more than 230 papers at scientific meetings. He has been granted numerous patents in the fields of MRI and cancer diagnosis and treatment and transdermal drug delivery. |
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 Catherine Maker, Chief Operating Officer
Catherine Maker has managed SSTI and SST, LLC since 1998. She has brought her energy, drive and extensive management experience to this position. Prior to joining SST, Catherine held management positions in a variety of industries including temporary placement, hospitality, marketing and sales.
Catherine opened and managed several branches for Kelly Services over a nine year period bringing all to profitability. As Manager of Marketing Support at Del Webb Corporation and as Manager of Customer Service and Sales at Environments for Children (15 million sales – mail order catalog) she created and implement policies, procedures and systems for the efficient operation of those respective departments.
Catherine received her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Connecticut.
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 Michael M. Austin, CFO & Treasurer
Michael M. Austin joined SST, LLC in 2004 as Chief Financial Officer. Mike brings to SST, LLC broad experience in banking, project finance and start up of new companies. He has worked for the past 32 years in banking and finance in Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya and Saudi Arabia. Twenty three of those years were with Citibank and Citibank affiliates.
From 1987 to 1990 Mike worked with Shearson Lehman Hutton in Riyadh advising the Saudi Economic Offset Committee on the structure and start up of new companies. From 1990 to 1995 he was CFO of Alujain Corp., a newly formed company in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with $ 46 million paid up equity and a mission to develop and invest in petrochemicals, metals and mining in Saudi Arabia.
Mike earned a BA in Chemistry at Yale. He worked 1 year as a German teacher and 3 years as a chemist prior to earning an MBA from Harvard Business School. He speaks Norwegian and German and does reasonably well in Indonesian. He captained Yale’s swim team in 1964 and was a member of the 1964 Olympic Swim Team winning a Gold Medal in the 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay.
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 William A. Swartz, Vice President of Sales
William A. Swartz joined SST, LLC in 2004 as Vice President of Sales. Bill brings to SST an extensive background in retail sales which culminated in 2000 when Bill retired as a Senior Vice President for Acosta Sales & Marketing (a national Food Brokerage Company) where he was responsible for 350 associates and $240 million in sales.
Previously, Bill was Senior Vice President of MAI-Alper, Inc. prior to its sale to Acosta.
Under his leadership sales grew from $20 million to over $170 million.
Bill began his career in sales with Johnson & Johnson where he held a series of sales, sales training & sales management positions in the Health Care Division.
Bill earned a BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts.
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