Laurence R. McCarthy

LAURENCE R. McCarthy has served as the Chairman and Chief Technology
Officer of Focus Technologies, Inc., since July 2002. Previously, Dr.
McCarthy served as President and CEO of Focus from 1988. Prior to
joining Focus, Dr. McCarthy was President of Boehringer Mannheim’s US
diagnostics division (1985-1987), Vice President and General Manager of
Becton Dickinson and the company’s immunomicrobiology business
(1983-1985), and Vice President of Research and Development for Becton
Dickinson’s microbiology businesses (1981-1983). He has served on the
faculties of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and
Cornell University School of Medicine. Dr. McCarthy received his PhD in
Microbiology from the University of New Hampshire, underwent
postdoctoral training at Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard
University School of Business.