R. Matthew Neff was elected to the board on August 1, 2017. Mr. Neff is currently Senior Director of Capital Markets at Thompson Thrift and is Senior Advisor to Evolution Capital Partners, a private equity firm. From July 2017 to May 2020, Mr. Neff was Of Counsel with Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP. From August 2013 through June 2016, Mr. Neff served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of AIT Laboratories, a national toxicology lab headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Neff joined AIT Laboratories after his tenure as President and Chief Executive Officer of CHV Capital, Inc., the venture capital subsidiary of Indiana University Health, a role he had held since 2007.
Mr. Neff started his career as a practicing lawyer and Partner at Baker & Daniels. He then served as the Deputy to the Chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board (now known as the Federal Housing Finance Agency) in the first Bush Administration. Thereafter, he became the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of two Indianapolis companies: Circle Investors, an insurance holding company then chaired by former Vice President of the United States, Dan Quayle, and Senex Financial Corp., a healthcare receivables finance company. Mr. Neff currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fairbanks Addiction Treatment Center and was a member of Riley Children’s Foundation’s Board of Directors from January 2000 to November 2012.
Mr. Neff earned his bachelor’s degree and graduated a Phi Beta Kappa from DePauw University. He also received his Juris Doctor degree from Indiana We are pleased to welcome Mr. Neff to the Board and look forward to working with him. His strong Categories: Regional Business News, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech, Healthcare and Medical News, Research, Medical Research, Publicly Traded Tags: BASi, board, board of directors, contract research, NASDAQ, pharmaceutical, pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical research, press release, publicly traded, R. Matthew Neff University School of Law, where he was the Executive Editor of the Indiana Law Review. Mr. Neff serves as Chairperson of the Audit Committee and serves on the Compensation Committee of the Board.