Management Team

Mark Tilley
Vice President, Advanced Materials

Dr. Tilley joined Arrowhead in May 2008 and is the Vice President, Advanced Materials. Prior to joining Arrowhead, he spent 9 years at DSM N.V.; a $12B Netherlands based specialty performance materials and life science company. Most recently, he served as Senior Investment Manager with DSM's Corporate Venturing Arm and served on the boards of CreAgri, Novomer, Van Technologies, Harland Medical Systems and InMat. Prior to his work with DSM Ventures, Dr. Tilley was Vice President of Research and Business Development for DSM Desotech, an operating division of DSM that is the global market leader in fiber optic coatings and stereo lithographic resins. During his tenure, he led marketing and technical teams, and built a nano-enabled flat panel displays materials business that was acquired by JSR in 2005. Dr. Tilley also co-founded Kriya Materials B.V., a venture capital backed nano-materials and coatings company based in the Netherlands.

Dr. Tilley has held marketing and R&D positions at SDC Coatings, a J.V. founded by Dow Corning and Pilkington Glass, Valspar and GE Plastics where he started his career at their Corporate R&D center as a Senior Scientist. He holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in Manchester, UK, a PhD from North Dakota State University in Fargo, and a MBA from Pepperdine, California. Dr. Tilley also was the recipient of a NATO Research Fellowship at the Hahn Meitner Institute in Berlin during his PhD studies.