Chief Executive Officer
Target Discovery, Inc.

Jeffrey N. Peterson, CEO for Target Discovery, Inc., brings broad executive general management, multi-functional, multi-business and international experience to Target Discovery. His diverse cross-functional experience includes roles in general management, strategic planning, business development, technology licensing, marketing/sales, operations/quality and R&D. Following an 11 year career in General Electric's Engineered Materials and Plastics businesses, he spent 9 years in key management roles in Abbott Laboratories' Diagnostics and International (Pharmaceuticals, Hospital Products, Nutritionals, Consumer) businesses. Most recently he served as CEO and General Manager of Abbott South Africa, doubling the sales and tripling the income of this 50 year-old business in 3.5 years, during the tumult of South Africa's political transition. He played an earlier pivotal management role in Abbott's successful introduction and support of multiple new diagnostics instrument and reagent systems in the history-making X-System series, including the IMx (the highest global sales diagnostic system in history). While in South Africa, Mr. Peterson also served as Chairman of the Board of the American International School of Johannesburg. Mr. Peterson holds BSChE and MSChE (Chemical Engineering) degrees from MIT.