Howard L. Davidson, Ph.D. in Physics, Wesleyan University 1977. Howard has a long history as a research engineer in the electronics and computer industries. He has held positions at Hewlett-Packard, CRAY Research, LLNL, Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, Sun Microsystems, Isothermal Systems Research, Defense Sciences Research Council (DARPA external board), and Facebook. Howard has many journal and conference publications, and more than 50 issued patents.

Alex Dickinson, Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and an MBA from Columbia University in New York.  Alex is the executive chairman of ChromaCode, a private clinical diagnostics company. He has been a member of the Company’s board since August 2017. Previously Dr. Dickinson was the Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Illumina, Inc. where his responsibilities included working with national governments and large institutions to develop precision medicine programs for healthcare systems. Earlier he led the team that built Illumina’s cloud-based sequencing informatics platform, BaseSpace, now one of the world’s largest genomic databases. Dr. Dickinson joined Illumina in 2010 when the company acquired Helixis, a molecular diagnostics company that he led as CEO after co-founding with Caltech Professor Axel Scherer and Nobel Laureate David Baltimore. Dr. Dickinson was previously the founder and CEO of Luxtera, a leading provider of interconnect products for cloud computing. He began his career as a researcher at AT&T Bell Labs and has been awarded over 40 patents covering a range of inventions including the camera and fingerprint CMOS chip technologies widely used in today’s smartphones.

Greg Magel, Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.  Greg is a seasoned technology development leader and inventor. He advises companies large and small on technology, strategy, and patents, and helps with hardware issues and prototyping of photonics-enabled products and instruments. His areas of technical expertise encompass electrical engineering, physics, and nanotechnology, with particular depth in optics and light sources including LEDs, lasers and fiber optics, integrated circuits and MEMS, and electronic/photonic packaging. Dr. Magel is an inventor on 28 issued and several pending U.S. patents assigned to employers and clients, beginning at Stanford University, continuing through a career in corporate research and development at Texas Instruments (TI) and Corning, and more recently working on behalf of both small and Fortune 500 technology companies as a consultant. Greg is registered to practice before the USPTO as a Patent Agent, Reg. No. 62,915.

Ann McEvoy, Ph.D. in biophysics from UC Berkeley in 2012. Ann brings 10+ years of microscopy experience in life and materials sciences. After delivering commercial-grade super-resolution microscopy products for GE Healthcare, Ann joined an entrepreneurial venture to develop non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPS) products using optical microscopy. The company was acquired by Invitae, where Ann continues to lead the scale-up of the technology for product release.