Philippe Goix founded Guava in June 1997, and led the company as it established its presence in the life science market. Under Philippe's leadership Guava assembled industry-leading executives, raised capital to develop its proprietary technology, defined a strategy to commercialization, and identified a very strong demand for future products in the life science market place. In the summer 2001 Guava launched its products to the life science market in two and half year of commercial history the company doubled revenues every year and in 2003 Guava past the $10 million of revenue barrier. The company successfully raised several rounds of VC backed financing to build its manufacturing, sales, customer support and R&D infrastructures. Today most of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic institutions are evaluating or buying the Guava cell based analyzers, reagent and software modules. The company's Valuation increased 70 fold since its inception. Prior to this seven-year experience, Philippe spent more than 15 years in the field of laser analytical devices applied to fluid mechanics. Philippe worked at CNRS in France, "as a charge de recherche", at Sandia National Laboratories, and Stanford University as a scientist where he developed sophisticated laser-based diagnostic tools to investigate complex fluidics systems. Philippe was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of California at Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Rouen, France, and a MBA from the University of San Francisco. Philippe is the author of seven of Guava's device patent and patent applications. He has published over 30 publications.

Jim Robbins is a Principal in Business Cluster Development (BCD). He is also Executive Director of the Panasonic Incubator and is a Principal in Panasonic Ventures, a $100 Million dollar investment fund. Jim is also Director of the Environmental Business Cluster, with offices in San Jose, CA and China. Other recent BCD projects include a Bioscience Cluster and Innovation Center, a technology incubator in Annapolis, MD, as well as work with a university-based commercialization center and incubator in Montana. Incubators that BCD has helped to create include the Women's Technology Cluster, the Communications Technology Cluster and the Foundation Incubator. Jim is on the Board of Directors of the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) and is Vice-Chair of the Pacific Incubation Network, a regional network of over 75 West Coast incubators. Jim has 30 years experience in the fields of new business formation and he previously worked for Digital Equipment Corporation and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Ms. Anderson has been driving successful new products from concept to revenue for more than 20 years leading R&D organizations for Baxter Healthcare, and Bausch & Lomb, and as general manager at Optical Radiation Corporation, and Carl Zeiss. She has taken more than 23 medical products through design, validation, regulatory clearance and reimbursement approval and into the marketplace. Since 2003, Ms. Anderson has served as CEO and founder of PathWork Informatics, an emerging technology leader in the delivery of personalized medicine to the practice of oncology. Ms. Anderson holds a B.S.I.E. from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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