Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> July 5, 2004

JOHN MCALISTER III – TRIPOS INC (TRPS)

JOHN P. MCALISTER III is the President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Tripos, Inc. He obtained his BS in Chemistry from Tarleton State College in 1971 and his PhD in Biochemistry and X-Ray Crystallography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1978. After a two year post-doctoral appointment, Dr. McAlister joined the staff of the Computer Systems Laboratory at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1980, where he served first as Assistant Director of the MMS-X National Collaborative Research Program and then as Research Associate in Computer Science. Dr. McAlister began working for Tripos in 1982, under contract to supervise software development for molecular graphics applications. In 1984, he joined Tripos as Director of Software Research and Development. Upon the acquisition of Tripos by E&S in 1987, Dr. McAlister was named Vice President, Research and Development, and in l988 was promoted to President. On June 1, 1994, the company became independent of Evans & Sutherland in a spinoff as a publicly quoted corporation with the new name of Tripos, Inc. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with an overview of Tripos and the company's

operations?

Dr. McAlister: Tripos originally got its start developing software for

drug discovery in 1979, and we have