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Leadership Team
 
 

Chris Rathe, Co-founder, Chairman, CEO

Before co-founding PriTest, Chris co-founded Metacode Technologies, Inc., a San Francisco content management software firm. As COO/CFO Chris helped develop innovative technology with million dollar sales, and led the company through a $150M merger with industry leader Interwoven, Inc. During his tenure at Metacode, Chris oversaw strategic business planning, fund raising, intellectual property matters, physical and IP security, legal and licensing agreements, and administration of daily operations.

Chris also co-founded Bio Research Laboratories, Inc. (BRL), a Redmond, Washington biotechnology company, managing BRL’s analytical laboratory business.

Chris has a B.S. in business administration and finance law from Portland State University.
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Lawrence Green, MD, PhD, Co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer

Larry has more than 30 years of entrepreneurial, medical, and biotech experience. He has broad scientific knowledge, along with quality assurance, quality control and regulatory approval experience, which are all key elements to PriTest’s success

He previously founded Cytran Inc., a pharmaceutical company based in Kirkland, Washington. He formed and led a team of industry leaders in the Pharma group culminating in a number of successful US clinical trials and FDA approvals. Larry’s background includes BioMEMS research, and biochips semiconductor metrology and numerous consulting projects with several high tech companies.

Larry holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of California, Irvine and an M.D. from the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo. He practiced as a physician in both surgery and internal medicine.
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Inna Garkavi, M.D., Operations Manager

Inna brings more then 20 years of medical and biotech experience to the PriTest team, providing regulatory management and operations support, documentation management, including developing and overseeing PriTest's Standard Operating Procedures/ Functional Operations process and specifications. Inna manages our sub-contractor and supplier relationships, design and maintenance company databases, as well as administrative services.

She was formerly with Cytran Pharmaceutical as manager of documentation control and scientific informatics and as a manager of clinical trial materials.

Inna has an M.D. from the Medical School of St. Petersburg, Russia.
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John Majnarich, PhD, Co-founder, Board Member

As a PriTest Co-founder, John’s 40 years of biomedical experience plays a key role in identifying and verifying key requirements for the PriTest’s products.

Currently the president and scientific director of Bio Research Laboratories (which he co-founded), John served as director of Medical and Biological Research Laboratories of Bothell, Washington from 1954 to 1965. In 1966, John became associate director of Enzomedic Laboratories and then director of the Biological Division when it became Schick Laboratories. John has also directed Seattle’s Biomed Research Laboratories and Biomed Inc..

John holds a degree in chemistry and zoology from Washington State University and PhD in biochemistry from the University of Washington.
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Roy T. Grant, Board Member
A finance professional, Roy brings nearly 20 years experience directing and managing the financial affairs of high technology companies to PriTest.

He was CFO of Wayport, Inc., a Texas company that delivers high-speed Wi-Fi wireless services. As CFO of Iridium, LLC, Roy raised $5 billion of new financing including $3 billion during the development stage of the company. He took the company public through a $240 million IPO in June 1997. From 1992-96, Roy served as finance director for Edison Mission Energy, the largest independent power developer in the United States, and earlier, worked as director of corporate finance for Marriott Corporation and as managing director of banking for American Airlines.

He holds a BS degree in administration and management science, mathematics and economics from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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Company Overview
 
Leadership Team
Chris Rathe
Lawrence Green
Inna Garkavi
John Majnarich
Roy T. Grant
   
Mission Statement