Leadership

Russell K. Garlick, Ph.D.
CEO and Director

Russ Garlick, CEO and Director, has served as CEO since March 2011.  Dr. Garlick comes to the company with 30 years of experience researching, designing, producing and selling instrumentation products to the life sciences industry.  His experience includes eight years as VP R&D for DuPont NEN/Perkin Elmer, a major supplier of lab instruments, and eight years as CEO of Protein Forest, a supplier of a cell culture lab instrument that exited in 2009.  His education includes an M.S. and Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, Medicinal Chemistry, Barnett Institute, Northeastern University, and a B.S. Biology, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Dick Reeves
Executive Chairman and Director

Dick Reeves, co-founder and Executive Chairman, has served as Chairman of the company’s board since inception.  He was CEO of BizTech, Huntsville’s technology-focused business incubator when the original technology arrived there from the university, and supervised the organizational work on the technology commercialization plan.  Mr. Reeves led the fund raising efforts for all rounds.  He served as CEO from June 2010 until March 2011.  In his 45 year career he has been founder/CEO/Chairman and/or principal in several high technology companies in the information technology field.