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Management Team
Jon Faiz Kayyem, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Kayyem was appointed to the board of directors of Osmetech plc in January 2009 as Chairman and assumed the role as President and Chief Executive Officer of Osmetech plc in August 2009. Dr. Kayyem attended Yale University and received his combined Master and Bachelor of Sciences in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1985. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 1991 at The California Institute of Technology (“Caltech”). Dr. Kayyem remained at Caltech as a Senior Research Fellow until 1995, when he founded Clinical Micro Sensors to commercialize technical innovations he developed while at Caltech. In 2000, Clinical Micro Sensors was sold to Motorola, Inc. for approximately $280 million, and subsequently purchased by Osmetech plc in 2005. In 2004, Dr. Kayyem left Clinical Micro Sensors and co-founded the biotechnology fund management company, Efficacy Capital Limited, where he served as managing partner until September 2009.
Steven Kemper
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Kemper has served as Chief Financial Officer of Osmetech plc since March 2010. Since November 2009, Mr. Kemper has served as Senior Vice President, Finance of Osmetech Technology, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Osmetech plc. From December 2007 to June 2009, Mr. Kemper served as Chief Financial Officer of The Active Network, a supplier of online registration services for recreational events. From March 2003 to July 2007, Mr. Kemper served as the Chief Financial Officer of DexCom, Inc., a medical device company focused on the design, development and commercialization of continuous glucose monitoring systems. From 1996 to present, Mr. Kemper also served as President of Pacific Financial Consulting, a financial consulting enterprise. Mr. Kemper received a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, an M.B.A. from Loyola Marymount University, an M.S. from San Diego State University and is a licensed C.P.A.
John Bellano
Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations
Mr. Bellano has served as Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations of Osmetech Technology, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Osmetech plc, since December 2009. From July 2008 until December 2009, Mr. Bellano was Vice President of Sales for Hologic, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and supplier of medical imaging systems and diagnostic and surgical products. From February 2005 until its acquisition by Hologic in June 2008, Mr. Bellano was Vice President of Sales and a member of the executive team of Third Wave Technologies Inc., a provider of DNA and RNA analysis products to clinical, research and agricultural customers. From February 2000 to February 2005, Mr. Bellano held various positions within the molecular group of Roche Diagnostics, the diagnostics division of Roche Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Bellano received a B.S. in sales and marketing from Desales University.
Pankaj Singhal, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Product Development and Manufacturing
Dr. Singhal joined Clinical Micro Sensors in 2000 and remained with Osmetech plc following Osmetech’s acquisition of Clinical Micro Sensors from Motorola in 2005. Dr. Singhal has served as Senior Vice President, Product Development and Manufacturing of Osmetech Technology, Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Osmetech plc, since March 2010. From May 2008 through March 2010, Dr. Singhal served as Chief Operating Officer of Osmetech Technology, Inc where he led the operations team that commercialized the original eSensor technology. Prior to that time, he served as Vice President of Operations of Osmetech Technology from January 2007 to April 2008 and Director of Manufacturing Operations from July 2005 to December 2006. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of California, Riverside. He also conducted postgraduate fellowship work at the University of California, Berkeley in the areas of DNA chips, electrochemical detection and signal processing, and has obtained multiple patents in these areas. He is also a Motorola-certified Six Sigma black belt in the areas of manufacturing and design development.