One of pioneers of commercial bioinformatics, founder of InforMax and its predecessor, Geninform Corp., Dr. Sagitov is co-founder of Softberry. He also serves at the boards of Ranet Center, Inc., Russian diversified retailer and commercial real estate developer, and Fidelity Systems, Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD), startup company that develops new technologies of genome sequencing and mapping. Prior to founding Softberry, Dr.Sagitov held various senior executive positions at Ranet Center and worked at Columbia University and Institute of Molecular Genetics (Moscow, Russia) as a researcher. Dr. Sagitov received MBA from Columbia University in 1996, Ph.D. in molecular biology from Russian Academy of Sciences in 1991 and M.S. in biochemistry from Moscow University in 1983. |