Overview

Gender

male

Dr. Rose has served on our board of directors since 2009.

Dr. Rose has served as president of Rose Ventures, Inc., a Wisconsin-based firm that provides consulting services and makes investments in life science tool companies, since its founding in 2008.

Dr. Rose has served as president and chief executive officer of Transplant Genomics Inc.

since March 2013, as a director of Invenra since 2012 and as a director since 2009 and as chief commercial officer since 2011 of Nabsys, a portfolio company of Point Judith Capital.

He also served as president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of NimbleGen Systems, Inc. from 2003 to 2007, continuing on until 2008 as chief executive officer of Roche NimbleGen following Roche's acquisition of NimbleGen Systems, Inc. in 2007.

Prior to NimbleGen Systems, Inc., Dr. Rose co-founded Genetic MicroSystems, a microarray instruments company, in 1997.

Dr. Rose received a B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

We selected Dr. Rose to serve on our board of directors due to his prior positions of leadership and business experience in the life sciences industry.