Murco Ringnalda, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, is a co-founder of Schrödinger, and was the first employee. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. He was also a Research Fellow at Caltech prior to joining Schrödinger. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon and a B.A. from Reed College.