Warrior Roots

Tom Murphy

Co-Founder and CEO of Warrior Roots

Tom is a registered professional athlete in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and has competed, most notability, on Spike TV's Ultimate Fighter Season 2 and is a veteran of The UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championships). But deep inside, Tom is a Celtic Warrior.

Warrior Roots™ (WR), LLC specializes in ancient ancestral DNA and athletic gene testing. Sparked by the last decade of genotyping and the rapid growth of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Tom and 4 colleagues created Warrior Roots™. The two concepts were merged as a unique opportunity to break new ground by the companies' founders.

Soon after words BK design, a Montreal based communications and design studio, joined the WR team. BK design brought years of branding and marketing experience to help create the visuals and website for Warrior Roots™.

Board of Directors

Tom Murphy

Tom is a registered professional athlete in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and has competed, most notability, on Spike TV's Ultimate Fighter 2 and is a veteran of The Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC). Prior to becoming a professional athlete Tom spent 4 years wrestling for a national championship team, where he was honored with the status of NCAA All-American. Tom graduated with a BS psychology from The University of New York at Brockport.
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Keith Wetherby

Keith, the architect of the original concept, is a molecular biologist experienced in leading high-throughput pipelines involved in the generation and analysis of DNA sequences. He was Group Leader for three important projects at a government lab including the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC), the Medical Sequencing project (MedSeq), and the Comparative Vertebrate Sequencing project. These projects contributed to the identification and sequence of representative full length open reading frame clones for human, mouse and rat genes as well as the discovery of novel SNPs and InDels in human candidate genes.
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Dr. Brian McKeon, Ph.D.

Dr. McKeon, the Chief Scientific Officer at Warrior Roots, is a Molecular Biologist with a Ph.D. from Binghamton University, an M.S. degree from Duquesne University, and a B.S. degree from the State University of New York, College at Cortland. While working at the University of Pittsburgh he published research papers on HIV and EIAV. After working with viruses, he spent the next nine years teaching Microbiology, Cell Biology, General Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, Forensics, Genetics, Medical Ethics, Ethics, and Logic at various schools, including Penn State Erie, Binghamton University, and Pennsylvania College of Technology. Dr. McKeon has a membership in the American Society for Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi - the Research Society, and MENSA. In his free time, Dr. McKeon serves as a Lieutenant in the Trout Run Volunteer Fire Company.
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Dr. Declan Connolly, Ph.D.

Dr. Connolly, is one of the most recognized and respected sports scientists in the world. Dr. Connolly has twice been a nominated finalist for the prestigious "Educator of the Year Award", by the National strength and Conditioning Association. Dr. Connolly's background in athletics, coaching, biochemistry, nutrition, physiology and education, make him one of the most sought after consultants and speakers around. He has published over 250 articles and is quoted regularly in magazines ranging from Runner's World, to Prevention Magazine, to SELF Magazine. His work appears on over 37,000 websites. He has consulted with professional teams and given presentations worldwide and a co-founder of the first All-Natural recovery sports drink which has been scientifically shown to reduce muscle damage and speed recovery (www.CherryPharm.com). Dr. Connolly is a former President of the New England American College of Sports Medicine, Physiology Editor for Research Quarterly in Exercise and Sports, sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. You can also check out his regular column features in VT Sports (www.vtsports.com) and Rowing News (www.rowingnews.com).

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Neil Carr

Neil received his B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Salisbury University in Maryland, and his M.A. in Philosophy from Boston College.
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Peter Delano

Peter has an M.S. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has over a decade of business experience at corporate institutions and is the founder of his own consulting company.

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