Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> October 12, 2001

Gajus Worthington – Fluidigm Corporation

GAJUS WORTHINGTON, President, CEO, and Co-Founder Fluidigm. Mr. Worthington held a variety of engineering, operations and marketing positions at Actel Corporation, which designs, develops and markets field programmable gate arrays and associated design and development software and programming hardware. Mr. Worthington served in several departments during his tenure at Actel, including product engineering, R&D engineering management, program management, product planning, and strategic marketing. His last position at Actel was Director, Strategic Marketing and Product Planning. Mr. Worthington received his undergraduate degree in Physics and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Profile
TWST: Could we start out with an overview of the company?

Mr. Worthington: Fluidigm was founded in 1999 based on technology that

was developed at Caltech in the biophysics department. We