Leadership Team
The Biodesix leadership team brings together expertise in management, molecular diagnostics, advanced analysis of complex data sets, and commercial operations.
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Chief Executive Officer and Director |
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Chief Technology Officer |
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Vice President, Commercial Operations |
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Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Marketing |
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Chief Financial Officer |
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Vice President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs |
David Brunel
Chief Executive Officer and Director
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 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
Dr. Röder is a company founder and 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’ 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.
Doug Swan
Vice President of Commercial Operations
Mr. Swan has served in sales and marketing positions for over 25 years at companies including Bristol- Myers Squibb, Baxter Healthcare, Genentech Inc., and ImClone Systems. In his most recent position at ImClone, Mr. Swan served as Vice President, Field Operations, and was responsible for sales and reimbursement. Prior to joining ImClone, Mr. Swan was responsible for North America Sales and Marketing at Baxter Healthcare in Deerfield, IL. From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Swan served as the Director of Marketing at Genentech Inc., where he was responsible for the launch of monoclonal antibody therapies targeting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and breast cancer.
Paul Beresford, PhD
Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Marketing
Dr. Beresford is Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Marketing. His expertise includes leading groups that provide products and services to oncology-focused pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for identifying and commercializing companion diagnostics. Prior to joining Biodesix, Dr. Beresford held a number of senior management positions at Ventana Medical Systems and Roche Diagnostics (after the acquisition of Ventana by Roche in early 2008) including Vice President, General Manager of Translational Diagnostics. He received a Ph.D. in Immunology from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine and was an Instructor and Junior Investigator at the Center for Blood Research at Harvard Medical School.
Frank Ronchetti
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. 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. Mr. Ronchetti has a BA in Economics from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.
Jeffrey A. Bojar
Vice President of Legal and Regulatory Affairs
Mr. Bojar joins Biodesix from Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., a prestigious regional law firm headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, where he developed the Denver office’s business and finance and biotechnology practice groups. Mr. Bojar’s practice focused on technology transfer, licensing, corporate, securities, and commercial transactions, including finance, venture capital, private equity and all aspects of representing emerging growth companies. As a member of the United States Patent Bar, Mr. Bojar also concentrated in the areas of intellectual property. Mr. Bojar received a J.D. from Marquette University Law School and a M.S. in biomedical sciences from the Medical College of Wisconsin. Mr. Bojar is responsible for the Company’s (i) quality and medical affairs compliance and regulatory strategy, (ii) technology transfer and collaboration development, (iii) intellectual property portfolio management, and (iv) and other general corporate matters.