Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 5, 2000

Mark Chandler – Luminex Corporation (lmnx)

DR. MARK B. CHANDLER founded Luminex Corporation in May 1995, and has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since that date and as President since June 1999. He also has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors since its formation in July 1997. In 1982 he founded Inland Laboratories, Inc., which provides plant and bacterial toxins to the medical research community. As the President and CEO of Inland, Dr. Chandler received the KPMG Peat Marwick in High Technology Entrepreneur of the Year award in 1987. He received his PhD Immunology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Profile
TWST: Would you provide our readers with an overview of Luminex?

Dr. Chandler: Luminex Corporation was founded in 1995, spinning out of

Inland Laboratories, a company that I had founded