CollabRx announced earlier
today the appointment of Clifford Baron, PhD to the role of Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer. Previously, Baron held a position with Accelrys, a
$160M+ global software provider serving biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemical,
and materials corporations.
With a remarkable track
record leading product and go to market efforts, Baron has worked for a number
of prominent life science companies. Most recently, he held the roles of
Director of Biology Product Marketing, Director of Business Development and
Director of Professional Services at Accelrys, Inc. In addition, he founded
Lexigraphix, LLC, a strategy consultancy serving biotechnology startups with an
innovative web-based system to analyze intellectual property assets. Prior to
that, Clifford was Senior Director of Global Solutions for Applied Biosystems,
Inc., of which is now apart of Life Technologies/Thermo Fisher. It was there
that he led software product management and coordinated the Applied Biosystems’
collaboration with Celera, now apart of Quest Diagnostics, Inc. He was also
Director of Product Management at Pangea Systems / Doubletwist, a pioneering
bioinformatics company, and Vice President of Product Development, Product
Director and Manager of Technical Products and Information Services for Abacus
Concepts, a statistical software company acquired by SAS Corp.
Baron earned a BS in Biology
from the University of Washington, and holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the
University of California, Berkeley.
“A market and technology
expert in the life sciences software industry, Clifford is ideally suited to
lead our continued development and go-to-market strategy for our Genetic
Variant Annotation™ Service and our Therapy Finder™ products,” stated Thomas
Mika, President & CEO of CollabRx. “With deep commercial experience in
bioinformatics and Next Generation Sequencing, Clifford is the ideal person to
take our products and services to the next level. We look forward to having him
in a key role on our team.”
To learn more please visit
www.collabrx.com
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