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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, October 21, 2009
Changing Places
Who's coming? Who's going? Who's changing places?
Companies born in the recession
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Internet
OnForce Inc., a Boston-based website operator that connects IT and consumer electronics service providers and service seekers nationwide, has added George Harris to the executive team as vice president of business development. Most recently, Harris was executive vice president of business development for Core Technology Solutions. Prior to that role, he was an owner of GA Services; vice president, worldwide customer support for Symbol Technologies; and vice president of field service for MSI Data. In his career, Harris also served two terms as the chairman and president of the Association of Service Management International.
Life sciences
Quanticate Ltd., a biometrics clinical research organization with offices in Cambridge and the U.K., has appointed Scott W. Clark as head of business development for its clinical trials services and operations headquartered in Cambridge. Prior to joining Quanticate, Clark served as vice president and global head of Quintiles eSolutions Business, a web development and e-services unit for the commercial and clinical trial and research community. His experience includes executive level positions in sales, marketing, technology and operations at Pfizer, SmithKline Beecham, and Premier Inc.
Alternative energy
Cambridge’s Verenium Corp. has named Carey A. Buckles to the position of vice president of biofuels operations. Buckles will have full site operations responsibility for the Jennings, La., pilot and demonstration facilities. Prior to joining Verenium, Buckles held positions, most recently director of manufacturing and engineering, with NatureWorks LLC, the first company to produce commercially available sustainable plastics derived from plants. Buckles also held various positions at Dow Chemical Inc. between 1983 and 2001.
Information technology
Billerica-based remote technical services firm PlumChoice Inc. has added to its management team, naming Fred King to the new position of chief operating officer, Kevin Rhodes as chief financial officer, Charles Welti as chief information officer and Wynn Grubbs, vice president of sales and marketing, taking over from King in that role. King joined the company in 2007 as vice president of sales and marketing and has been a chief architect of its channel partner sales strategy. Rhodes most recently spent eight years as CFO of Edgewater Technology. He succeeds Dan Baker, who remains with PlumChoice as vice president of finance. Welti’s experience includes serving as vice president of enterprise architecture at State Street Bank, as well as holding a variety of information technology positions with Investors Bank and Trust, Veridiem and IBM Global Services. Grubbs has held sales and marketing leadership positions for companies in the software, SaaS and outsourced services sectors, include CommercialWare, Valora Technologies and nine years at Lightbridge Inc.
Pharma
Clet Niyikiza has joined Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge as senior vice president, development. Niyikiza comes to Merrimack from GlaxoSmithKline, where he was vice president and medicine development leader for oncology. Prior to GSK, Niyikiza held the position of Lilly Research Fellow and Global Oncology Pharmacogenomics Leader at Eli Lilly & Co. A mathematician by training, Niyikiza began his career at Lilly focusing on applying systems techniques to better understand disease and drug interactions. He has also worked with Syntex Research and as a visiting professor of mathematics with Indiana University.
Medical technology
CardiAQ Valve Technologies Inc. of Winchester has elected Rob Michiels to serve on its board of directors. Until April 2009, Michiels was chief operating officer at CoreValve, which was acquired by Medtronic for $700 million plus milestone payments. Michiels, a native of the Belgian Congo who is now a U.S. citizen, worked from 1977 to 1989 as a manager and then a vice president for Edwards Labs. After Edwards he became president of Interventional Technologies Inc. of San Diego, a maker of cardiology products. Michiels led a group of angel investors that invested in CoreValve in 2002.
NABsys Inc. of Providence, R.I., has named industry veteran and serial entrepreneur Stan Rose to the company’s board of directors. Rose is the most recent addition to the leadership team at NABsys, which recently raised $4 million in venture capital to develop its proprietary electronic, solid-state DNA sequencing platform. Rose is president of Rose Ventures Inc., a firm that provides consulting and direction in the life science research products space, and manages a portfolio of public and private equity investments. He served as CEO of NimbleGen Systems, a microarray company that was acquired by Roche in 2007. He also co-founded and helped grow Genetic Microsystems, a microarray instruments company that was acquired by Affymetrix in 2000. Prior to that, Rose led the polymerase chain reaction business for Perkin-Elmer and Applied Biosystems.
Services
Maria Eliseeva has joined the Boston civil litigation firm Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen PC as of counsel, focusing her practice on intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, copyright and licensing disputes. Eliseeva practices law in both English and Russian. She has technical expertise in the areas of physics, material science and engineering, telecommunications and computer engineering, and physical and inorganic chemistry. Eliseeva was recently elected chair of the International and Foreign Law Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
New Marketing Labs, the digital marketing and social communications agency led by Mass High Tech All-Star Chris Brogan, has brought on board Colin Bower as principal to manage the agency’s business and corporate development, and Robert Collins as principal to lead the agency’s professional services team. Bower previously served as AOL Interactive’s director of business development and has been a successful CEO in the digital media space, restructuring and bringing a European public media company profitably into the digital world. He also ran a multimillion-dollar global business division for Arthur Andersen consulting. Collins has 18 years of traditional, digital, online marketing and agency management experience working with global brands, including Novell, Travelocity, Quantum, CyberTrust and Johnson & Johnson. He is the producer and host of Boston’s Social Media Breakfast. Prior to joining New Marketing Labs, Collins was vice president of new media and account services with SHIFT Communications.
Security
Axis Communications of Chelmsford has promoted Scott Dunn to director of business development, responsible for Axis’ National Systems Integrator program, industry segment development, and the company’s new remote hosted video platform and consultant program. Prior to this role Dunn served as Axis’ national sales manager-channels, where he was responsible for managing the company’s distribution program. Before that he served as strategic channel manager at Axis. Prior to joining Axis, he held positions as director of national accounts for Honeywell Security Group and vice president of sales for Synergistics Inc.
Education
Katherine Gordon has joined Brown University as the managing director of Brown’s Technology Ventures Office, formerly known as Brown Technology Partnerships. Gordon joins Brown from Harvard University’s Office of Technology Development, where she served as a director of business development. She oversaw development and commercialization of new technologies from Harvard Medical School and Dental School. Earlier in her career, Gordon consulted at early stage biomedical companies on strategic planning, operations/management, and fundraising. She founded Apollo BioPharmaceutics, which developed neuroprotective compounds for Alzheimer’s disease and ophthalmic indications. She began her career at Genzyme Corp.
Software
SpaceClaim Corp., a Concord-based CAD software company, has appointed Gregory Stott as CFO. Stott previously served as CFO of telecommunications equipment maker Convergence Inc., where he worked on the sale of the company for $22.8 million to Burlington-based network communications equipment maker Acme Packet Inc. Prior to Convergence, Stott served as treasurer at VoIP switch products maker Telica Inc. In 2004, Stott worked on the sale of Telica to Lucent Technologies Inc. for $295 million. Stott started his career as a certified public accountant at Arthur Young & Co.
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