Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> January 13, 2000
MARK A. SAMUELS is chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief
Executive Officer of SpectRx, Inc. Mr. Samuels has degrees in Physics
and Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He
holds 11 granted patents in medical and commercial applications of
electro-optics and has founded two successful companies. After spending
several years in the defense industry developing electro-optic sensors,
Mr. Samuels founded Laser Atlanta Optics, Inc. In 1992, he co-founded
SpectRx, capitalized the company in early 1993 and in 1997 took SpectRx
public. In addition to his corporate duties, Mr. Samuels founded the
Atlanta chapter of the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society and was
Vice Chairman of the Georgia BioMedical Partnership. Profile
Mr. Samuels: SpectRx is a biophotonics company developing medical
point-of-care products that use light and other forms of energy to
replace
