Leadership
S. Roopom Banerjee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Banerjee joined RainDance from Leerink Swann where he was a Director of Healthcare Investment Banking and led the Life Science Tools and Diagnostics sector. Previously, Mr. Banerjee held positions at McKinsey and Goldman Sachs advising Fortune 500 healthcare companies globally on corporate and growth strategy, product development and launch strategy, international expansion, and mergers and acquisitions. He has successfully completed over 50 transactions, including private placements, IPOs, Followons, PIPE/RDs, and fixed income as well as mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Banerjee also worked at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the Whitehead Institute/M.I.T. Human Genome Project, and at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. He holds an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and dual B.S. degrees in Biology and Economics from M.I.T., where he was elected a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar.
Christopher McNary
Chief Commercial Officer
Mr. McNary has more than 25 years of experience in the life sciences and diagnostic markets, including 14 years in senior management positions. Prior to joining RainDance, he was Vice President and General Manager with Thermo Fisher Scientific. He has also served as President and CEO of early-stage start-up companies and held executive management positions at Chiron Diagnostics and Tecan.
Roch Kelly
Senior Vice President, Operations
Mr. Kelly joined RainDance from Synarc, Inc., where he served as Vice President, Clinical Operations. He has over 30 years of management experience, with more than 25 years in life sciences. Mr. Kelly was Chief Operating Officer at Protedyne, a leader in bringing the industrial design for automation philosophy to genome-based drug research. He also was Vice President of Clinical Operations, North America and Worldwide Business Operations for PAREXEL International and was Executive Director of Manufacturing Operations at Chiron Diagnostics. Mr. Kelly holds a B.S. in finance from Miami (Ohio) University, and a MBA from Syracuse University.
Darren R. Link, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Vice President, Research and Development
Dr. Link holds a B.S. degree in physics from Montana State University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Colorado. Before joining RainDance, he spent 2 years at Harvard University as a postdoctoral scientist studying soft materials physics in the department of physics and division of engineering and applied sciences. Dr. Link spent 2 years at Tokyo Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral scientist studying liquid crystalline materials. He has received grant funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and participated in the National Science Foundation’s U.S.-Japan exchange program for young scientists in Nanotechnology. Dr. Link has co-authored more than 45 peer-reviewed articles and 10 patent applications. He also serves on the Industrial Advisory Board of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education.
Michael B. Olex
Vice President, System Development
Mr. Olex joined RainDance from BioTrove, where he was Vice President, Manufacturing, and established the company’s OpenArray™ consumable and instrumentation manufacturing departments. Mr. Olex also served as Senior Vice President at U.S. Genomics; President of International Light; Director, Business Projects at Applied Biosystems; and Vice President of Manufacturing at PerSeptive Biosystems. He holds a master of business administration degree from Case Western Reserve University, a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Cleveland State University, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Detroit.
Alan Sherr
Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
Mr. Sherr brings 30 years of experience in regulatory, corporate, and intellectual property (IP) law, including deep experience in life science tools and diagnostics to RainDance. He previously served as Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Helicos BioSciences. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Sherr was Senior IP Counsel and Vice President of Licensing at Affymetrix. From 1990 to 2000, Mr. Sherr was an attorney in private practice with leading intellectual property and general corporate law firms including Wolf, Greenfield, and Sacks and Hale and Dorr. Prior to that, he was General Counsel to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Human Services, and a Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General. He holds a J.D. from Boston University, an MSEE from Stanford University, and a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
