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Christina (Christy) Jones

Founder and CEO

Christy Jones is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Extend Fertility. Christy is a seasoned entrepreneur with a successful track record of bringing new technologies to market. From 1996 through 2001, Christy served as President of pcOrder, successfully leading the company from start-up to a NASDAQ-listed public corporation. Prior to founding pcOrder, she served in numerous management roles at Trilogy Software, the company she co-founded as a student in 1989. In recognition of her achievements, Christy was honored as Ernst and Young’s 1999 National Entrepreneur of the Year in the Young Entrepreneur category. Her entrepreneurial success has been highlighted on 3 covers of Forbes magazine, and she has also been named one of Computer Reseller News’ “Top 25 Executives”, a “Top 100 Young Innovator” by MIT’s Technology Review and one of the “Top 20 Leaders Under 30” by Working Woman. Christy currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fertile Hope, a national non-profit organization.

Christy received a BA in Economics from Stanford University and a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Megan Aitken

Vice President, Client Education

Megan has over ten years of sales and marketing experience in the pharmaceutical and medical arena. Most recently, she was a Specialty Sales Representative in the Neurology Specialty Division of Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals where she was responsible for managing a multimillion dollar book of business while developing long-term relationships with major hospitals and buying groups in the Boston medical community. She has also practiced as a critical care nurse in both the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Cardiac Step-Down Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Megan received her BS in Conservation and Resource Development from the University of California, Berkeley and her RN from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Healthcare Professionals.

Marla H. Libraty

Vice President, Marketing

Marla has over 15 years of consumer marketing experience from her past positions with such consumer packaged goods giants as Mattel and the Eveready Battery Company. She helped launch Mattel Toys’ Becky in 1997, the first-ever 11 ½” fashion doll in a wheelchair. The doll, a close friend of Barbie, was cited as garnering the most press of any product the world’s largest toy maker had ever launched as well as accolades from affiliated organizations and kids around the world. Marla and her physician/researcher husband, lived in Bangkok, Thailand for over four years with their three children. Marla currently serves on the Board of Directors for Step Into Art, a Boston-based non-profit that provides engaging art experiences for children.

Marla received a BA in Communications from the University of California, San Diego and a Master’s in Business Administration from UCLA/Anderson School of Management.

Charlotte Frank Sage

Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Operations

Charlotte has over eight years of scientific research experience. She has worked at Wesleyan University using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and computer simulations to study ligand binding. She did her doctoral work at Yale University studying the interactions of the yeast Candida albicans with human intestinal epithelial cells in an effort to understand the methods by which Candida albicans causes illness in immunocompromised patients. She has extensive experience culturing human epithelial cells and performing a variety of experimental techniques such as DNA, RNA, and protein isolation and manipulation. Charlotte has also served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses at both Wesleyan and Yale Universities. Most recently she has been an organizer of educational programs at the Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Charlotte received a B.A. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Wesleyan University and a Ph. D. in Microbiology from Yale University.