Dr. Smith holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University and an M.S. in Microbiology from its School of Public Health. Over a period of some 30 years, he has held a variety of management and research positions within the healthcare sector, primarily in the areas of diagnostic testing and development. For a period of time he owned and operated three clinical laboratories, all of which were acquired by major companies. Prior to joining BioSignia, Dr. Smith held a variety of senior management positions with Roche Biomedical Laboratories (now LabCorp), Burlington, NC, and F. Hoffman LaRoche (Roche), Ltd., Nutley, NJ and also its world headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. In his last position, Dr. Smith had responsibility for the company's specialty business units - taking emerging technologies from concept to market delivery. Dr. Smith's interest in BioSignia's technical concept came as a natural extension of his diagnostics experience. The founders of BioSignia recruited him in 1997 to lead the Company's transition from concept to market.

Guizhou Hu, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Science and Technology
 

Dr. Hu was awarded an M.D. from Beijing Medical University, and an M.S. in nutritional toxicology and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Cornell University. Dr. Hu joined BioSignia in 1998 following his post-doctoral work at Cornell. A Deputy Minister from the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Junshi Chen, commented that Dr. Hu “may be one of the brightest young minds to have ever come to America from China for further study.” His professors and mentors from Cornell University have confirmed this with similar comments. Dr. Hu’s efforts have produced numerous proprietary products for the Company and ingenious solutions for the marketplace. He is also named on the patent for BioSignia’s Synthesis Analysis technology. The technological discoveries he has made while at BioSignia have been praised by some of the world’s most prominent epidemiologists and statisticians. In April, 2006, Dr. Hu won the Triangle Business Journal’s Health Care Heroes Award in the innovator category. He is an excellent presenter and is quite at ease in environments ranging from the very scientific or academic to sales and boardroom settings.

Ron Evans
Senior Vice President of Sales
 

Mr. Evans has over twenty four years of distinguished executive sales management and service leadership in the healthcare field. For over twenty two years, working for a national clinical lab, Mr. Evans held positions with increasing responsibilities. His teams were responsible for unprecedented growth of revenue and profit margins in the lab industry, achieving the highest awards within the company multiple times. His most recent position, Mr. Evans was Vice President of sales with responsibilities for over 120m in revenue. Mr. Evans has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Elon University and played professional baseball for five years with the Boston Red Sox organization.