Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> January 10, 2001
JEFFREY S. WILLIAMS, President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director
of Genomic Solutions Inc., joined the company in March 1997. He
previously had been Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
for International Remote Imaging Systems, a publicly held company
specializing in digital imaging products for the clinical diagnostics
and research marketplaces. Prior to IRIS, Mr. Williams was Vice
President and Global Business Manager with Boehringer Mannheim, a global
healthcare company with core businesses in clinical diagnostics,
pharmaceuticals, biochemicals and orthopedics. Prior to his employment
at Boehringer, he held sales and marketing positions with the Organon
Pharmaceutical division of Akzo Nobel, and with the University of
Michigan's Intellectual Properties Officer. Mr. Williams earned a BS
degree in Biology from Alma College and an MB from the University of
Michigan. Profile
TWST: Would you begin by giving us a brief overview of GenomicSolutions?
Mr. Williams: We're a life science company. Our major focus is providing
tools in the areas of DNA microarrays (or