James E. Geisler is the chief operating officer and chief financial officer of CreoSalus, Inc., a life sciences company based in Louisville. The company is a leader in the manufacture of peptides for the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to this, Mr. Geisler worked for sixteen years at United Technologies Corporation with stints as co-CFO and vice president, corporate strategy. In 2006 and 2007, he was named as one of the three best CFOs in the aerospace sector by Institutional Investor magazine. He earned his B.B.A. in finance from the University of Kentucky and his M.B.A. from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia in 1993.