Dr. Rosenthal has served as a senior executive at several highly successful life science tools companies, including PerkinElmer, Thermo Optek, and Nicolet Instrument (now Thermo Nicolet). A proven executive with twenty years of experience in building shareholder value, Dr. Rosenthal served as president of PerkinElmer's Instruments division where he managed the acquisition and integration of the Analytical Instruments group from PE Corporation. As president and CEO of Thermo Optek, Dr. Rosenthal built a market-leading instrument company, which went public in 1996. Prior to Thermo Optek, Dr. Rosenthal served as president of Nicolet Instrument Corporation, a subsidiary of Thermo Instruments, which supplies analytical tools for research and development to several industries, including biotechnology. Dr. Rosenthal holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of Maryland, an MS in Chemistry from State University of New York (Buffalo) and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Emory University. He spent a year in Germany completing a post-doctoral fellowship and as a guest scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This was followed by an additional post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA. Dr. Rosenthal also holds an AEA Executive MBA from Stanford University. |