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Jeffrey Miller
Board Member
Jeff has over 20 years experience in marketing, sales and media. He has served as a Managing Director, Publisher, Associate Publisher, Ad Director, and founder of his own consulting firm providing specialized services in the area of sales management, marketing strategies, publishing, and conferences. He has managed and launched several publications and conferences including the The Journal of Life Sciences, Acumen Journal of Life Sciences, The Biotech Meeting at Laguna Niguel, The Stem Cell Summit, The Personalized Medicine Meeting, The China/India Life Sciences Meeting, The Internet Industry Standard Magazine, Windows Magazine, PC Magazine, MacUser Magazine, Networld and Interop among others and has performed consulting services for numerous companies in the technology sector. Jeff has worked as an executive with Burrill & Company, Nielsen Business Media, IDG Publications, Softbank Exhibitions and Conferences, CMP Publications, Ziff-Davis Publishing, and Fawcette Technical Publications. Jeff has an MBA in marketing management.
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Dean Sproles
CEO
Dean Sproles, age 31, is the Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board for Iverson Genetic Diagnostics, Inc. Mr. Sproles is an entrepreneur and scientist specializing in gene expression and protein sequencing. He is the innovator of the Company’s genetic diagnostic technology. An alumnus of the Citadel, Mr. Sproles graduated magna cum laude in the Honors Program earning a B.S. in Biology. Having dedicated his research to proteomics, genomics, and DNA / RNA analysis, Mr. Sproles has over ten years of laboratory experience including extensive experience managing privately funded research laboratories. Most recently Mr. Sproles served as a product development consultant at the privately funded Meridian Valley Laboratory in Renton, Washington. His most recent publications reflect his involvement in the creation and implementation of global standards in genetic research.
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Christopher Dubay
Entrepreneur,
Ph. D. in Medical Genetics, Consultant
Mr.
Dubay's primary research interest is in complex genetic diseases
(e.g. diabetes, hypertension, etc.) and the dissection of their
genetic basis in model systems and eventually humans. He has
concentrated on the use of bioinformatic tools to aid in the scaling
up of experiments and analyses required to address the isolation of
multiple genetic loci present in complex traits. Mr. Dubay currently
directs the Oregon National Primate Research Center Genetics Resource
& Informatics Program which provides bioinformatic tools and
genetics resources to support our research on a wide variety disease
models for translational research. Mr.
Dubay holds joint appointments in the departments of Medical
Molecular Genetics and Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
in the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine,
where he supports research and training in bioinformatics and related
subjects. Mr. Dubay is interested in developing and evaluating
systems for clinical and research genetic analysis laboratories, such
as laboratory information systems, and translating our new biological
knowledge into clinical interventions. Mr. Dubay is a founder of
Genetic Information Management Systems, and an information management
consultant for Proteogenix Inc, as well as an Iverson Genetics board
member.
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Doranne B. Satterlee (Randy)
President/CEO, VanRan Communications Services, Inc.
Board Member, American Red Cross Southeast Regional Chapter
Doranne (Randy) B. Satterlee is President and CEO of VanRan Communications Services, Inc., an Atlanta based telecommunications sales and services company. Established in l986, VanRan Communications is a nationally certified female owned company and an Authorized Avaya Business Partner and AT&T Solutions Provider. VanRan designs, installs and maintains complex telecommunications business systems throughout the United States. An original co-founder of the company, Ms. Satterlee is responsible for developing business opportunities and managing the overall corporation with offices in Atlanta, GA and Denver, Colorado. Prior to her current role, Ms. Satterlee held various positions with AT&T in their executive management development program. Assignments included managing and developing a team of over 600 employees in multiple call center sites; national account management and client relationships for key customers; and designing, developing and managing AT&T's Southern Region internal telecommunications organization for 14 states subsequent to divestiture. Ms. Satterlee earned her BA from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. She earned her MA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ. She has also completed numerous advanced courses in telecommunications and management development. Ms. Satterlee is actively involved in her community, starting her third year on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Chapter of the Red Cross. She is currently Chairman of Financial Development, having served as Chairman of Volunteer Services for the previous year. She has been a guest speaker at local colleges and high schools on entrepreneurship and previously served on the Telecommunications Committee for Gwinnett Technical College. Ms. Satterlee is a member of Global Executive Women and the Women's President's Organization.
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David M. Otto
Entrepreneur, Consultant President, The Otto Group
David M. Otto is a Seattle-based attorney and President of The Otto Law Group. Mr. Otto's practice focuses on corporate finance, securities, mergers and acquisitions and corporate law and governance. Mr. Otto began his law practice on Wall Street in New York City in 1987, where he concentrated on significant corporate leveraged buyout and takeover transactions and equity and debt offerings for investment banks, venture capital firms and Fortune 1000 companies. In 1991, Mr. Otto moved to Seattle in order to dedicate his experience in corporate law and finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, public and private securities offerings and private equity and venture capital financing to entrepreneurs, technology innovators, start-up, emerging growth and middle-market businesses. In July of 1999, Mr. Otto founded his own firm, The Otto Law Group, PLLC, in Seattle, Washington, to better serve privately-held and publicly traded technology-based start-up, emerging growth and middle-market companies with respect to corporate finance, capital markets, securities, strategic development, corporate governance, mergers, acquisitions and venture capital and private equity matters. Recent transactions completed by The Otto Law Group include an initial public offering for a digital technology company, acquisition and financing of an education services and products public company, private financing for the national expansion of a window coverings manufacturer, reverse mergers and financings for companies in the medical and pharmaceutical products, alternative energy, environmental products and services, security technology, bio-diesel production, internet domain and network construction and plastics recycling industries. The Otto Law Group also handles 34 Act compliance work for several technology and service businesses, share exchanges and proxies for publicly held companies, renders opinions regarding various cross-border financings and acquisitions and advises businesses on entity governance and fiduciary standards, commercial contracts, executive employment agreements and intellectual property transfers.
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