Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> December 18, 2000

Capers Mcdonald – Bioreliance Corporation (brel)

CAPERS W. MCDONALD is President and Chief Executive Officer of BioReliance Corporation, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. He is also President of the company's US manufacturing subsidiary, which he co-founded in 1993. Mr. McDonald is Chair of the Technology Council of Maryland, which has 850 member companies, and is a Founder and past Chair of the Maryland BioAlliance, a cooperative business association of over 100 companies from throughout the state. He is a member of the CEO Roundtable of the Greater Washington Board of Trade and has been an active contributor to the regional Potomac Conference. Mr. McDonald has been awarded the 'Leadership in Technology Award' by the Technology Council of Maryland, named one of the Washington Region's 'Ten Most Admired Bosses' by Techway magazine, called one of Maryland's corporate 'Power Elite' by Warfield's Business Record, and listed among Who's Who In America. He joined BioReliance as President and CEO during 1992 and has been a company Director since that time. From 1989 to 1992, he served as President of Spectroscopy Imaging Systems Corporation, a joint venture of Siemens Medical Systems and Varian Associates, in California. Prior to that, he held senior management positions with Hewlett-Packard Corporation, in their Analytical Products Group and in their joint venture with Genentech. Mr. McDonald earned an MBA from Harvard Business School (1983), a Master's degree in Engineering from MIT (1976), and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Duke University (1974). He holds device patents in both the US and Europe and has contributed articles to several business and technical publications. Profile
TWST: Could we start out with a history and a quick overview of

BioReliance Corporation?

Mr. McDonald: BioReliance is a contract service organization, or CSO,

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