Biodesix - Company - Management

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Management

David Brunel Executive Chairman
	Mr. Brunel has been involved in enterprise software for over 25 years and has been involved in molecular diagnostics since 2000. Mr. Brunel was a founder and was CEO of Unidata, Inc when it merged with Vmark Software to create Ardent Software, Inc, where he was President and COO. He was also a member of the Board of Ardent until it was sold to Informix in 1999. Mr. Brunel was also a co-founder and President of SomaLogic, Inc. a company focused on creating protein capture arrays for sensitive, high-throughput, quantitative diagnostics. Mr. Brunel is also on the board of Anark Corporation and Xyleme, Inc.
Heinrich Röder, D.Phil. Chief Technology Officer and Board Member
	Dr. Röder is author or co-author of more than 100 publications/talks in theoretical physics and computational sciences. Dr. Röder obtained his D.Phil at Oxford University, and went on to become an eminent theoretical physicist with positions at University of Hanover and Bayreuth (Germany) and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has led projects involving the diagonalization of gigadimensional matrices, has done pioneering work in the microscopic mechanisms of colossal magneto resistive perovskites, and initiated the first use of large-scale inverse problem techniques in the analysis of neutron scattering data. Recruited from Los Alamos, Dr. Röder serves as Biodesix’s CTO, leading the Research and Development side of the Company and designing functionality for next generation products and services. Dr. Röder is a Rhodes Scholar.
Frank Ronchetti Chief Financial Officer
	Frank Ronchetti is an entrepreneur and finance professional with 20 years of domestic and international experience. Most recently, he was Chief Financial Officer of NetRegulus, a regulatory compliance software company that was sold to Parametric Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: PMTC). Prior to that, he was a Director in the London office of General Electric's venture capital arm, GE Equity. He also founded a corporate finance boutique in the Czech Republic, ran Central European acquisition finance for Erste Bank, the region's leading financial institution, and negotiated corporate sponsorship agreements on behalf of the International Olympic Committee. Frank has a BA in Economics from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.