Management
TessArae® is a private company that designs and delivers the most cost-effective, highly multiplexed, targeted DNA sequencing diagnostics available on the market today.
L. Thomas Richards, MD
MD (Harvard Medical School), BA (Yale College). Former Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCSF Medical Center and Clinical Faculty at Stanford Medical Center. Former investment banker in the mergers & acquisitions departments of several firms: Lazard Frères, UBS Securities and SGCowen. Transactional experience in a wide variety of industries and products,including capital raising, leveraged buyouts and public mergers. Former Independent Director on the Board of Cowen Group, a publicly-traded healthcare and technology investment bank: Audit and Corporate Governance Committees. |
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Clark Tibbetts, PhD
BA, Chemistry (Amherst College); PhD, Biophysics and Chemistry (Cal Tech). NCI postdoctoral fellowship in molecular virology (Wallenberg Laboratory, University of Uppsala, Sweden) and NHGRI funded research grants in human genomics (University of Connecticut Health Center, Vanderbilt University). Dr. Tibbetts started academic enterprise institutes for bioinformatics and biotechnology at George Mason University and Virginia Tech. Advisor to Department of Energy and NIH Genome Programs. Served on the National Genome Research Review Committee. Oversaw the Department of Defense collaborative effort to develop and validate the resequencing pathogen microarray (RPM) platform for public health and Biodefense surveillance. TessArae Founder, 2005. |
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Lou Paladeau, BBA
BBA in Accounting (The College of William & Mary). Extensive operations, finance, and technology experience in all facets of product and service development including strategic planning, major contract negotiation, business development, team building, project management, and financial management. |
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Matthew Lorence, PhD, MBA
BA, Genetics (University of California, Berkeley); PhD, Molecular Biology (University of Texas); MBA, Marketing Management (University of Texas). NIH postdoctoral research fellowship (UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas) with 20 peer-reviewed publications. Marketing and business development positions at Bio-Rad, Applied Biosystems, and Affymetrix focused on the development of applications in microbiology, infectious disease, and biodefense. |
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Agnieszka Lichanska, PhD
BSc(Hons) and PhD in Biochemistry (University of Queensland). Postdoctoral fellow in medical genetics and ophthalmology, Queens University Belfast. Later as a lecturer leading research in functional genomics in School of Dentistry at the University of Queensland. More than 20 peer-reviewed publications. |
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Brian Weslowski, BS
BS in Physics (State University of New York at Albany). Former research physicist and systems administrator at the Naval Reasearch Laboratory in Washington, DC. Background in Microsoft Windows Active Directory, SharePoint, and Exchange. Extensive experience with Linux systems administration and Department of Defense IT security practices. |
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