Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> January 10, 2001

Jeffrey Williams – Genomic Solutions Inc (gnsl)

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 Genomic

Solutions?

Mr. Williams: We're a life science company. Our major focus is providing

tools in the areas of DNA microarrays (or