Executive Management

Jim Hopkins - Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Jim Hopkins joined Tripos International in March of 2007. During the ten years prior to joining Tripos, Mr. Hopkins has been an executive officer or served on the boards of more than a dozen public and private companies. Most recently he was Chairman and CEO of Micrografx, Inc., a Texas-based Nasdaq-listed graphics software company that was sold to Corel Corporation. He became acquainted with Vector Capital while on the Board of Directors of Corel as a result of Vector’s purchase of Corel. He has taken companies through the IPO and Secondary public offering processes, and has conducted strategic acquisitions and sales of both public and private companies.

John D. Yingling - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Yingling joined Tripos International in March 2007. He received his B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Missouri, St. Louis, in 1979 and holds certificates as a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Cash Manager. Mr. Yingling worked for Storz Instrument Company, a micro-surgical instrument manufacturer, in a series of accounting positions from 1979 to 1983 and for Clayton Brokerage Company from 1983 to 1985. This was followed by several accounting, tax and treasury positions at Venture Stores, Inc. from 1985 to 1995. Mr. Yingling joined Tripos, Inc. in May 1995 as U.S. Controller and was promoted to Corporate Controller & Treasurer, then to Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and ultimately to Chief Financial Officer in October, 2006.

Richard D. Cramer III, Ph.D. - Chief Scientific Officer (CSO)
Dr. Cramer joined Tripos International in March 2007, and served as the vice president for science at Tripos, Inc., for the past 24 years. Dr. Cramer is best known for the invention of CoMFA®, the first and most widely used 3D-QSAR technique. He is also the founder and former chief technical officer of STATS, Inc., the leading provider of sports statistical information. The company was eventually purchased by Fox Sports. Dr. Cramer received his PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry from MIT.

Gregory B. Smith, Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Smith joined Tripos International in March 2007. Previously, while a graduate student at Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Smith's research focused on the initial development of SYBYL, the program that would transition commercially into Tripos' premiere computational chemistry platform. In 1984, after finishing his studies with a B.S. and M.S. in computer science, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a researcher, concentrating his efforts in formal language design and intelligent workstation development. In 1986, Mr. Smith joined Tripos, Inc., where he played a key role in designing and developing numerous commercial products for the company, including UNITY, SPL, the Molecular Spreadsheet, and the Tripos Electronic Notebook. In his 20+ years at Tripos, Inc. Mr. Smith held Director of Cheminformatics and Senior Fellow positions and accepted many leadership roles, including Vice President of Development and Chief Technology Officer.