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Cutting
Edge Leadership
Sword Diagnostics has drawn its leadership team from among the best
of the industry leaders in diagnostic technology.
Management Team
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David Dingott:
President & Founder
Mr. Dingott is a Fortune-100 trained business leader with
more than 25 years experience identifying, creating and leading
businesses from proof of concept to successful commercial
enterprise. Mr. Dingott founded Sword Diagnostics upon successful
negotiation of an agreement with the US Naval Research Laboratory
for the transfer of biological weapons detection technology.
Mr. Dingott began his career designing computers at AT&T
Bell Laboratories. In his 18 years with the company, Mr. Dingott
was inducted into its Leadership Continuity Program, developed
to prepare the next generation of top company executives.
He served as Director of many new diverse product and service-based
businesses, growing them from concept to commercial enterprises.
One such business that he created was a business application
platform integrating products and services across the company.
Highlighted by Network World magazine this platform was cited
as the reason for AT&T’s inclusion on the magazine’s
list of ‘Companies to Watch’ in 1997. Mr. Dingott
was president and co-founder of award winning OpenReach (now
Corentè) named to Fortune Magazine’s 2001 ‘Top
100 New Companies to Watch’ list. Mr. Dingott secured
all external financing and oversaw the company’s operations,
as it grew from three people with a concept to more than 100
people, with services deployed in over 30 countries. Mr. Dingott
was awarded a Masters of Engineering by Columbia University
and an Executive MBA at the University of Illinois.
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Mitch Gaver:
Director of Business Development and Marketing
Mr. Gaver is an experienced marketer in the life sciences
industry, In his 20 years of marketing, he has been heavily
involved in bringing new detection technologies to market
in large companies such as Amersham (GE) and Pierce (Thermo
Fisher), as well as start-up companies such as Quantum Dot
Corporation and DiscoveRx Corporation. He has been involved
in the launch of numerous detection technologies, such as
quantum dots,,LEADseeker, CyDyes, HitHunter cAMP Assays and
protein arrays. Mr. Gaver has an MBA and BS in biology from
the University of Iowa.
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Craig L Rine:
Director of Sales
Mr. Rine brings executive level sales experience in building
successful sales organizations and driving toward meeting
or exceeding goals in life sciences businesses. Early in his
career, Craig joined Wallac, Inc. selling liquid scintillation
counters and gamma counters. In his eighteen years with the
company and several mergers, Craig’s responsibilities
grew from a field sales representative to managing over 90
sales, marketing, and service personnel for PerkinElmer Life
Sciences. He also had P&L responsibility for his area,
giving him not only a keen sense of sales and service, but
also the critical nature of performing those functions profitably.
In addition to large company experience, Mr. Rine built the
sales team for MesoScale Discovery, the successful research
detection business that evolved from the purchase of Bioveris
by Roche.
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Neal Siegel,
Ph.D: Chief Scientist
Dr. Siegel spent 19 years as a scientist in Abbott Laboratories
Diagnostics Division, where he became a level 1 scientist,
a position requiring CEO-approval. He received his Ph.D. from
Michigan State University and performed postdoctoral work
with the Veteran’s Administration of St. Louis and the
Department of Internal Medicine, St. Louis University as an
NIH National Research Service Fellow. Dr. Siegel served as
President of the Clinical Ligand Assay Society and is an Adjunct
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