Kent A. Murphy, Ph.D.

Dr. Murphy is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Luna Innovations Incorporated. He has founded and built three additional companies that were later sold to a Fortune 300 company, a multi-billion dollar European firm and a billion dollar biotech company, and has taken Luna Innovations public.

Dr. Murphy is a founding member and Co-Chairman of the Virginia Research & Technology Advisory Commission (VRTAC) and Co-Chairman of the Productivity Advisory Committee, which offers advice on the Commonwealth of Virginia's approach to effective and efficient government operations. Both of these positions are appointed by the Governor of Virginia. Dr. Murphy is a member of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Steering Committee in association with the National Research Council and the National Academies. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and is also a member of the VirginiaFIRST Executive Advisory Board, a non-profit organization that has a focus to make science, math, engineering and technology exciting to youth.

In 2004, Dr. Murphy was recognized by the Governor and Science Museum of Virginia as an Outstanding Industrialist of the Year and Luna was recognized with a Governor's Technology Award for Entrepreneurship in 2005. In 2007, Luna was recognized with an R&D 100 award for its test / measurement instrument, the Optical Backscatter Reflectometer™. This award recognizes the 100 most technologically significant new products introduced into the marketplace. The company is also a three-time recipient of the highly prestigious Tibbetts Award, which is presented to companies that best exemplify the philosophy and doctrine of the SBIR program.

Dr. Murphy began his career in fiber optics at age 19 when he received multiple patents for fiber optic couplers. He has a portfolio of more than 35 patents in the areas of telecommunications, sensing for oil and gas and aerospace, diagnostics for pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Dr. Murphy received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, where he became a tenured professor.

N. Leigh Anderson, Ph.D.

Dr. Anderson has served as a member of Luna's Board of Directors since March 2006 and is a member of the Board's Audit and Compensation Committee. Since 2002, he has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Plasma Proteome Institute, a scientific research institute in Washington, D.C., of which he is also a founder. Dr. Anderson was previously a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Audit Committee of Dade Behring Holdings, Inc. (DADE), a NASDAQ-traded company. Dr. Anderson also consults through Anderson Forschung Group, of which he has been a Principal since 2002, and serves on several Scientific Advisory Boards including biOasis Technologies. From 2001 to 2002, he served as the Chief Scientific Officer and a member of the board of directors of Large Scale Biology Corporation. Dr. Anderson earned a bachelor's degree in Physics from Yale University and a doctorate in Molecular Biology from Cambridge University.

John C. Backus, Jr.

Mr. Backus has served as a member of Luna's Board of Directors since September 2005. He is Chairman of the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. Since 1999, Backus has served as a Managing Director and Partner at New Atlantic Ventures (and its predecessor Draper Atlantic), an early-stage information technology venture capital firm based in Northern Virginia which he co-founded. Prior to founding Draper Atlantic and New Atlantic Ventures , he was one of four founders and the President / Chief Executive Officer of InteliData Technologies, a developer of software products and services for the financial services industry. Mr. Backus earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a master’s degree in Business Administration from Stanford University.

Mike Daniels

Mr. Daniels has served as a member of Luna's Board of Directors since June 2007 and sits on the Compensation and Nominating and Governance Committees. He is internationally recognized in the technology community for a number of successes, including acquiring and leading Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), as a senior executive of Science Applications International Corporations (SAIC) helping to build that company into a large, multi-billion dollar enterprise, and recently leading Mobile365 to a successful acquisition transaction. Mr. Daniels has more than 30 years of experience in high technology industries and a successful track record of building high growth companies. After acquiring NSI in 1995, while an executive of SAIC, Daniels served as NSI’s chairman until 2000. During that time, he refocused the company strategy and in 1997, he led the company through a successful initial public offering. In 1999, he led NSI's follow-on offering, which at the time was the largest Internet equity offering in history. In 2000, NSI merged with VeriSign, at which time he joined the VeriSign Board of Directors. In addition to his leadership of NSI, Mr. Daniels served in senior executive positions of SAIC, an $8.5 billion high technology firm from 1986 to 2004. In 2004, he joined the Board of Directors of Apogen Technologies, which was sold to QinetiQ of the United Kingdom in 2005. In 2005, Mr. Daniels was named Chairman of the Board of Mobile365 and then served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mobile365, which was sold to Sybase in November 2006. Currently, Mr. Daniels serves on the board of directors of GlobalLogic (as chairman) Sybase (NYSE), the Logistics Management Institute (LMI), the Virginia Chamber of Commerce (as chairman), the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the Greater Washington Board of Trade.Click here to see a release on Daniels joining the Luna Board.

Bobbie Kilberg

Ms. Kilberg has served as a member of Luna’s Board of Directors since March 2006 and is a member of the Nomination and Corporate Governance Committee. She is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the largest technology council in the United States. She was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and also serves on the Board of Trustees/Board of Directors of The George Washington University; WETA (a Washington D.C., public television station); the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts; United Bank - Virginia; and the Advisory Board of George Mason University’s Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering. Ms. Kilberg has served on the Attorney General of Virginia’s Task Force on Identity Theft and on Regulatory Reform and Economic Development. Among her prior professional positions, Ms. Kilberg served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Liaison and Deputy Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs for President George H.W. Bush, as Associate Counsel to President Gerald R. Ford, as Vice President and General Counsel of the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies, as an attorney at Arnold & Porter, and as a White House Fellow in the Nixon Administration. She received her law degree from Yale University, a master’s degree in Political Science from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College.

Edward G. Murphy, M.D.

Dr. Murphy has served as a member of Luna's Board of Directors since September 2005. Since January 2001, he has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Carilion Health System, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from January 2000 until January 2001. Dr. Murphy holds a bachelor's degree in Biology with a concentration in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Albany, and a doctorate from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Murphy is not related to Kent A. Murphy, Ph.D., Luna's President and Chief Executive Officer.

Richard W. Roedel

Mr. Roedel has served as a member of Luna's Board of Directors since September 2005 and is Chairman of the Board's Audit and Compensation Committees. He currently serves as on the Board of Directors at Brightpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: CELL), IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), Sealy Corporation (NYSE: ZZ) and Lorillard Tobacco Company. Mr. Roedel is also a Board member of the Association of Audit Committee Members, Inc., a not-for-profit organization dedicated to strengthening audit committees. He served on the Board as Chairman of the Audit Committee of Dade Behring Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: DADE), from October 2002 until November 2007, when Dade was acquired by Siemens AG. Mr. Roedel has served on the board in various capacities at Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) from April 2004 until June 2005, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. From 1971 through 2000, he was employed by BDO Seidman LLP, becoming an audit partner in 1980, later being promoted in 1990 to Managing Partner in Chicago and then Managing Partner in New York in 1994, and finally in 1999 to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Roedel is a graduate of The Ohio State University and a Certified Public Accountant.