About Us

Meet The Team

The Xheme team is made up of materials scientists, engineers, cell biologists, organic chemists, and entrepreneurs. We’re a team with an audacious vision: a world in which technology benefits manufacturers, consumers, and the environment.

The brainchild of former Harvard University and Louisiana State University researcher Dr. SSR Kumar Challa, Xheme was co-founded in 2019 by Challa, Pamela Burton, an experienced founding partner of four successful startups, Jonathan Plaut, Esq., a specialist in business law and partner at Cohan Rasnick Plaut LLP, and, Venugopal Nambula, MBA, who has 30 years’ experience in business and finance.

Leadership Team

A nanotechnologist with over two decades of experience in managing academic research centers and IP development.
A finance and investment professional with over two decades of experience consulting for multinational companies.
A senior pharmaceutical R&D executive with extensive technical leadership and relationship management experience.
An expert in drug development, medical diagnostics, and bioprocessing who has brought several diagnostic products to market.
An investment and consulting professional with experience in startups.

Graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris, completed a PhD in Molecular Biology at the Pasteur Institute, and holds an MBA from the College des Ingénieurs of Paris.

A founding partner and owner of four successful start-ups.
A practicing lawyer and the Chair of the Business Law Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Scientific Team

Collaborating Academics

Advisory Board

An award-winning physicist, entrepreneur, advisor, and investor.
A former R&D exec at BASF with global academic and industrial experience.
A practicing physician and a regular principal investigator in clinical trials.
A leading expert on sustainable polymers and circular carbon management.

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Xheme, Inc.

100 Carlson Avenue
Newton, MA 02459

Email: info@xhemeinc.com