Don is a successful scientist and business manager with strong technical background and over 20 years of experience in technology development for the life sciences including 15+ years of entrepreneurial experience in starting, operating, growing and selling a start-up high-tech business serving the life science markets. During this time, he has gained experience ranging from experimental physical chemistry to microfluidics to business development, R&D in a national laboratory environment, intellectual property development and management, technology transfer, merger and acquisition, integration into a global organization and manufacturing transfer.
Twenty-plus years experience in technology commercialization
List of technical publications can be found here
List of patents can be found here:
Technical:
Micro- and Nanofluidics and Microfabrication
Electrokinetic pumping and flow control
Chemical Analysis – Microanalytical System integration
Sensitive Detection – optical and electrochemical
Biological assays – flow and bead-based
Microscale sample preparation and extraction
Ion spectroscopy, vacuum systems, laser spectroscopy
Business:
General Management
M&A and Integration
Project management
Business development
Proposal writing
Patent preparation and prosecution
Intellectual property licensing
Education:
USC, Postdoctoral Fellow with Curt Witting and Hannah Reisler. State-to-State Studies of Molecule-Surface Collision Dynamics
UC Berkeley, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry (NSF Fellow). Thesis: Study of Radicals, Clusters and Transition State Species by Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Cornell University, BA Chemistry (Cornell Tradition Fellow)