About

The people behind the mechanism.

MetIQ is a small team working at the intersection of formulation science, clinical practice, and plain-language publishing. We build metabolic systems and put the reasoning behind them in public before anything is sold.

Leadership

Todd Ullom, Chief Executive Officer

Todd Ullom

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

A Georgia Tech-trained builder who spent his career building homes, technology, and companies before turning that systems-thinking toward his own search for answers — the search that became the seed of The Cell’s Oldest Language.

Dr. Mahdi Taha, Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Mahdi Taha, DO, FACOI, FACP

Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Medical oncologist at the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Board-certified internist and oncologist specializing in genitourinary, head and neck, and cutaneous skin cancers. Named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor every year since 2017.

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Marcelo Ferro, Chief Science Officer

Marcelo Ferro

Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer

Holds a bachelor’s degree in nutrition, a postgraduate specialization in clinical pharmacology, and a master’s degree in aging sciences. Scientific Director of Nutrition Formulator Inc. in Florida, a laboratory serving major American companies and the U.S. Armed Forces, and a former nutrition consultant to Olympic and Paralympic athletes, with five pending U.S. patents in metabolic and oncological chemistry.

Garrett Ratleff, VP Business Development

Garrett Ratleff

Co-Founder & VP Business Development

U.S. Marine Corps veteran whose background in exercise physiology shapes his work translating dense primary research into material usable by clinicians and patients alike. Co-founder of the MetIQ Scientific Authority Series.

Rob Schaefer, VP Operations

Rob Schaefer

Co-Founder & VP Operations

More than a decade commercializing technologies across biotechnology, cell and gene therapy, and contract development and manufacturing. B.S. in genetic engineering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; certificate from Wharton Executive Education.

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