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Andy Katz, Ph.D. Vice President & Chief Business Officer is a co-founder of Celula. Prior to joining Celula, Dr. Katz was Senior Director, Corporate Development & Strategic Marketing at Genoptix, Inc., a provider of distinctive diagnostic services for hematopathology. In his role he provided product and sales force management, including securing contracts for services supporting FDA-regulated clinical trials to pharma clients. Dr. Katz performed market research to establish performance specifications for the engineering team at Genoptix that ultimately lead to Celula’s cell sorting instrument. Prior to joining Genoptix, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles where he advised senior management at major companies to achieve superior and sustained growth & performance improvements in competitive strategy, operations, and organization. Dr. Katz completed his Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of California, San Diego. His research at UCSD focused on electronic & optical properties of superconductors for development of manufacturable superconducting devices for ultra high-speed electronics and fabrication of magnetic sensors for the hard drive data storage industry. He has published 20 articles in scientific journals and has been issued two patents in nanotechnology. Dr. Katz holds a B.S. in Applied Physics and a B.A. in Humanities (magna cum laude) from Columbia University. | 