Richard Sanders

Corporate Officer/Principal at

Phase One Ventures LLC

73 year

38 connections

Consumer Services

Consumer Non-Durables

Health Technology

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Richard M.
Sanders is currently a General Partner at Phase One Ventures LLC since 2009.
Previously, he served as the President & Chief Executive Officer at Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., Inc. from 2002 to 2009.
He also held the position of Director at Aqua Membranes, Inc. Additionally, Mr. Sanders was an Independent Director at 22nd Century Group, Inc. from 2013 to 2024.
Prior to that, he worked at R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co. for 25 years, where he held the position of Senior Vice President-Marketing.
Mr. Sanders holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and an undergraduate degree from Hamline University.

Richard Sanders active positions

Companies	Position	Start
Phase One Ventures LLC Phase One Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance Operates as a venture capital firm	Corporate Officer/Principal	31/07/2009

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Former positions of Richard Sanders

Companies	Position	End
22ND CENTURY GROUP, INC.	Director/Board Member	27/06/2024
Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., Inc. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., Inc. TobaccoConsumer Non-Durables Manufactures and distributes tobacco products	Chief Executive Officer	28/02/2009
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. TobaccoConsumer Non-Durables Manufactures and markets tobacco products	Sales & Marketing	31/12/2001
Aqua Membranes, Inc. Aqua Membranes, Inc. Environmental ServicesIndustrial Services Provides industrial water treatment solutions	Director/Board Member	-

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Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. TobaccoConsumer Non-Durables Manufactures and markets tobacco products	Consumer Non-Durables
22nd Century Group, Inc. 22nd Century Group, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Operates as a plant biotechnology company focused on technology that allows to increase or decrease level of nicotine and other nicotinic alkaloids in tobacco plants through genetic engineering and plant breeding	Health Technology
Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., Inc. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., Inc. TobaccoConsumer Non-Durables Manufactures and distributes tobacco products	Consumer Non-Durables
Hamline University Hamline University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Phase One Ventures LLC Phase One Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance Operates as a venture capital firm	Finance
Aqua Membranes, Inc. Aqua Membranes, Inc. Environmental ServicesIndustrial Services Provides industrial water treatment solutions	Industrial Services