Robert is a trained microbial geneticist who earned his advanced degree from Northeastern University, Boston, MA over 35 years ago. Since then he has worked in clinical microbiology, in-vitro diagnostics (microbiology, clinical chemistry, immunology and blood banking), blood services, laboratory instrumentation, and biologics. Robert moved into a position as technical representative for API in 1975 and since then has been heavily involved in business development, general management, marketing, sales and product development. The companies and positions of increasing responsibility include API a subsidiary of American Home Products (now Wyeth), Orgenics International Corporation, the New York Blood Center, Tomtec and now Invetech. Robert has extensive in diagnostics, medical devices, cellular therapy and bioprocessing production systems as well as extensive knowledge in life sciences research and drug discovery. In Robert’s current position at Invetech, he is extensively involved in guiding companies in product development systematics and design for manufacturing as well as scalable manufacturing analysis for production planning.