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Daniel Burgess, PhD (Co-Founder, CEO)
20+ years leading biological research and product development teams in academic and industry settings.
(Former: Roche-NimbleGen; Baylor College of Medicine; University of Michigan)
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Alan Pitas, M.S. (Co-Founder, COO)
Mechanical and optical engineering, instrumentation; high-energy physics.
(Former: Roche-NimbleGen; Bruker AXS; Baker Manufacturing; Fermilab; MIT)
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Tom Dillinger, M.S. (Co-Founder, CTO)
Microprocessor design, VLSI, silicon fabrication processes.
(Former: Oracle; Advanced Micro Devices; Sun Micro-systems; Rockwell Semiconductor; IBM)
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Wendy Ward, JD (CLO, VP Intellectual Property)
Patent prosecution and litigation in biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
(Former: Green Griffith & Borg-Breen LLP; Merchant & Gould LLC; Michael Best & Friedrich; Paddock Laboratories Inc)