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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

David Dingott: President & Founder
Mr. Dingott is a Fortune-100 trained business leader with 25 years experience identifying, creating and leading business opportunities from concept to market. Mr. Dingott was president and co-founder of award winning OpenReach (now part of Corentè) named to Fortune Magazine’s 2001 ‘Top 100 New Companies to Watch’ list. Mr. Dingott received his masters in engineering from Columbia University and undergraduate degree in engineering and computer science from Polytechnic Institute of New York.
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 Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University.
Mitch Gaver: Director of Business Development and Marketing
Mr. Gaver is an experienced marketer in the life sciences industry, In his 17 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.
Samar Kundu, Ph.D (Chemistry), D.Sc. (Biochemistry): Senior Scientist
Dr. Kundu was in the employ of Abbot Labs for 23 years in medical diagnostics research and development as a Project and Lab Manager. Dr. Kundu was inducted as a Volweiler Research Fellow with eight US patents and 65 publications in books and journals. He has served as a World Health Organization Consultant in Immunodiagnostics and enjoyed nine years of teaching at Baylor University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
 
 
 
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