Christopher Bouton is the founder and CEO of

Entagen Entagen is an American software company founded in 2008 by Christopher Bouton. It develops software for big data integration and analytics. Entagen was purchased by Thomson Reuters in 2013. History Entagen was founded by Christopher Bouton in 2 ...

, a software company in the

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, Massachusetts area, which develops

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integration and analytics solutions. Entagen's technologies were named "Innovative Technology of the Year in Big Data" in 2012 by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and Entagen was named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" in the Life Sciences in 2013.

was acquired by

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in October, 2013 for an undisclosed amount.

Early life and education

Bouton's mother, Barbara Bouton, worked as an investment banker at

Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered in Lower Manhattan in New York City, with regional headquarters in many internationa ...

and his father, Marshall Bouton, is a political scientist who most recently ran the

Chicago Council on Global Affairs The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is an American international affairs think tank located in Chicago, Illinois, with a stated mission of "increasing knowledge and engagement in global affairs and empowering more people to help shape our glob ...

. Bouton was born in 1973 in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved from Chicago to Brooklyn, New York, New Delhi, India, Washington, DC and then back to Brooklyn. Bouton attended

Saint Ann's School (Brooklyn) Saint Ann's School is a private school in Brooklyn, New York City. The school is a non-sectarian, co-educational pre-K–12 day school with programs in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The students number 1,012 from preschool through 12th gra ...

for high school. While at Saint Ann's he was awarded sixth place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search in 1992 for research that he performed at the

Jackson Laboratory The Jackson Laboratory (often abbreviated as JAX) is an independent, non-profit biomedical research institution which was founded by Clarence Cook Little in 1929. It employs over 3,000 employees in Bar Harbor, Maine; Sacramento, California; F ...

. He then attended

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zepha ...

for his undergraduate education and

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

for his Ph.D. While at Johns Hopkins, Bouton worked in the laboratory of Jonathan Pevsner who appeared as a

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expert and researcher on the show Doing DaVinci. While in Pevsner's lab, Bouton developed and released the "Database Referencing of Array Genes ONline" (DRAGON) database and DRAGON View analytics systems in 2002, which remains in wide use currently. During his doctoral research, Bouton also demonstrated that

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I, an important member of the molecular machinery which governs neurotransmitter release at the synaptic terminal, is a molecular target of lead which may in part contribute to the effects of lead poisoning. Bouton also published on the effects of lead on gene expression and the involvement of presenilins in Alzheimer's Disease.

Career

Following graduation from Johns Hopkins University, Neuroscience Graduate Program, Bouton worked at LION Bioscience Research, Inc. (a subsidiary of LION bioscience AG)) and Aveo Pharmaceuticals (formerly GenPath Pharmaceuticals). Bouton was recruited in 2004 to the position of Head of Integrative Data Mining at the

Pfizer Pfizer Inc. ( ) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered at The Spiral (New York City), The Spiral in Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 184 ...

Research Technology Center in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Pfizer, Bouton is credited with having developed the Pfizerpedia, an organizational knowledge base. In 2008, Bouton founded

. Entagen developed a range of technologies that combined

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and

approaches including Extera and TripleMap. Entagen also participated in the

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community in the Cambridge, MA area from 2011 - 2014. Entagen's technologies were named "Innovative Technology of the Year in Big Data" in 2012 by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and Entagen was named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" in the Life Sciences in 2013. Bouton has published a number of papers about Big Data and data integration approaches.

Personal life

Bouton was born in Chicago and has lived in New York,

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, and

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. He currently lives in

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References

External links

Article on Entagen

Entagen Acquisition
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