Meet the Team

Dr. Soane is a serial entrepreneur and innovator in the field of polymer science and nanotechnology. A prolific researcher with hundreds of published articles as well as more than 100 patents, he served as a tenured Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley for 15 years, prior to founding several advanced materials companies focused on direct market applications, including: ACLARA, a maker of reagents for genomic, proteomic, and diagnostic applications; Nano-Tex, textile materials with unique performance characteristics; 2C Optics, a just-in-time manufacturer of polymeric eyeglass lenses; ZMS, a developer of the next generation of contact lenses; and ICBM or Innovative Construction and Building Materials, developer of light weight high strength wallboards. With Crop Enhancement, NanoPaper, ReForm Biologics and Transform Materials, spin-offs from Soane Labs he continues to innovate across a variety of industries.  Dr. Soane received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley.

Ms. Dolman brings almost 20 years of experience as a trusted legal advisor.  Before joining Soane Labs, Ms. Dolman was a partner at Goodwin, a top ranked global law firm, where she advised companies and investors in a wide variety of strategic transactions and corporate operations and co-chaired Goodwin’s Fintech group.  While at Goodwin, Ms. Dolman served as Soane Labs’ primary external legal counsel.    Ms. Dolman was named a “Top Woman in the Law” and a “Super Lawyers Rising Star.  She received her J.D. form Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, with a semester at the Universiteit Maastricht.

Dr. Webb has been helping companies and investors with IP strategies for over twenty years, focusing on investor-side diligence, company-side portfolio development, and technology transfer. Before joining Dr. Soane, she was a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston MA. Before entering the legal field, Dr. Webb was a board-certified surgeon, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, with teaching positions at Harvard, Tufts and the University of Pennsylvania. She received her M.D. degree from Duke, her Ph.D. from Yale, and her J.D. from Harvard.

Ms. Groves has more than 25 years of experience in finance and operations, and over the past 15 years has served as the chief financial executive in a number of venture-backed technology startups. Before joining Dr. Soane, she served as CFO for Openera Technologies, a global mobile software company, and as CFO for SnowShore Networks, a voice over IP telecom equipment company. Ms. Groves was also the operations director for CRVelocity, the incubator arm for Charles River Ventures' portfolio companies. Additionally, she served as the Vice President of Finance for Novera Software, a venture-backed software company. In the early part of her career, Ms. Groves held various positions in finance and management at Analog Devices, Sun Microsystems, and AT&T. She holds an A.B. in chemistry from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.