Raymond E. Palys
President
Lignan Research

Raymond Palys is President of Lignan Research, LLC a company specializing in research, development and manufacture of novel lignan based phytochemicals for over-the-counter (OTC) application. Lignan Research is the first company in the world to isolate, concentrate, purify, and standardize lignans in the introduction of the lignan-based nutraceutical Brevail^®.

Raymond brings to Lignan Research extensive senior-level management experience in a variety of industries including service, health care, and manufacturing. He received his BS from Northern Illinois University and his MBA from Loyola University of Chicago.

Prior to joining Lignan Research, he was Vice-President of Consulting for J. Bergman & Associates, a management consulting firm in San Diego, California.  As a consultant, he advised over 100 companies in the areas of organizational restructuring, management development, and strategic planning. 

In health care, he was a Regional Manager for TriCare, a publicly held occupational health care company in Irvine, California.  He also co-founded QMA, a medical management company, in San Diego, California.  In manufacturing, he held management positions in industrial engineering, operations, and marketing with Ryerson, the nation's largest steel distributor, in Chicago, Illinois.

Raymond possesses a strong passion for disease prevention, particularly the “War Against Cancer.”  His understanding and awareness of cancer is deeply rooted in his personal experiences.  In 1998 he lost his wife Deborah, 31 years of age, to breast cancer.  Deborah battled the aggressive non-hereditary disease for 3 ˝ years.  In 2001, his sister Renee was diagnosed with breast cancer. A startling statistic is that approximately 90% of breast cancer diagnosis is non-hereditary, and potentially preventable. Raymond is particularly motivated by scientific research that has established a link between dietary lignan ingestion and reduction of risk for breast, reproductive and related cancers. The Breast Cancer Prevention Foundtion was founded in the memory of his late wife, Deborah Demos Palys, to fund scientific and clinical research in the area of breast cancer prevention. A percentage of Brevail sales are donated to this foundation.  

Raymond resides in San Diego, California.