Dan Roark
Entrepreneur, P&L Leader, CEO
- Role
- CEO & Founder at Gestalt
- Location
- Spokane, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dan Roark
Mr. Roark is an experienced CEO, serial entrepreneur, active angel investor and board member for technology businesses with experience in the life science industry and beyond. He is currently the CEO of Gestalt Diagnostics. His focus has encompassed development and commercialization of innovative and patented industrial automation and consumables that have fueled several technologies including the Human Genome Project, High Throughput Drug Screening at top tier pharmaceutical and biotech companies, improved food crop breeding operations at leading Agriculture companies, diagnostics biomarker testing for cancer and genetic disorders, blood bank screening for infectious diseases, and provided automated storage systems holding millions of chemical or biological samples used for drug development and population genomics efforts for world leading pharmaceutical and government sponsored academic institutes and clinical hospitals. His leadership spans engineering, business operations, and market development efforts globally. He received B.S. degrees in Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering from Whitworth University in 1984 and Washington State University in 1987, where he was awarded Distinguished Alumnus 2017 for the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering. He is affiliated with the Spokane Angel Alliance and KickStart investment funds.
Experience
CEO & Founder
Feb 2017 — Present · Spokane, WA, US
Gestalt provides software, industry leading connectivity, and support services to empower pathologists, generate objective and reproducible results, increase productivity and efficiency, and significantly reduce the diagnostic error rate for laboratories of all sizes using innovative workflow and AI / ML solutions to power disease diagnosis including cancer. Our customers include leading hospitals, healthcare integrated delivery networks (IDN\'s), reference labs, pharmaceutical research groups, and education facilities.
Education
Washington State University
B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
1986 — 1988
Whitworth University
B.S., Biochemistry
1980 — 1984
Skills
- Immunology
- Commercialization
- Lifesciences
- Cell Culture
- Bioinformatics
- Protein Chemistry
- Customer Support
- Dna Sequencing
- Life Sciences
- Cell
- Laboratory Automation
- Genetics
- Proteomics
- Molecular Biology
- Hplc
- Technology Transfer
- Biotechnology
- Drug Development
- Cancer
- Biopharmaceuticals
- Drug Discovery
- Genomics
- Dna
- R&D
- Liquid Handling
- Biochemistry
- Business Development
- Hardware Diagnostics
- Elisa
- Cell Biology
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