Leadership Team

  • Ronald Ranauro, President and CEO, Director
  • Dr. Michael J. McManus, Chief Marketing Officer
  • Dr. Jean Jacqes Codani, Chief Scientific Officer, Director and Founder
  • Deirdre O. Aubuchon, Chief Financial Officer
  • Dr. Drew Arnold, Vice President of Worldwide Sales
  • Andrzej Wozniak, Chief Software Architect
  • Dr. Kamalakar Gulukota, Senior Director, Content Development
  • Dr. Hendrik Heus, Senior Director, Sequencing Business

 

Ronald Ranauro
President and Chief Executive Officer, Director

Ron RanauroRon joined the company in 2002. In addition to overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations he is focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to support the rapidly growing market opportunities for GenomeQuest. Ranauro participated in the growth and maturity of the Electronics Computer Aided Engineering (ECAE) industry from the early 1980's to the late 1990's. There he honed the basic selling, marketing and business strategies that have helped GenomeQuest attract funding and scale its business. Prior to joining GenomeQuest he founded and led Blackstone Technology Group, a grid-computing provider to the life science IT field.

Prior to founding Blackstone, Ranauro held positions in sales, sales management, and general management at Nextwave Design Automation and Exemplar Logic. Ranauro began his career as a software engineer at Viewlogic Systems and Data General Corporation.

Ron serves as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the Clark University Innovation and Entrepreneurship program where he teaches a class in Entrepreneurial Communication and Influence. Also, Ron serves on the Executive Council of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Department of Management.He earned a BS degree in management and an MS in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Dr. Michael J. McManus
Chief Marketing Officer

Dr. McManus leads GenomeQuest's corporate marketing, strategic alliances and product marketing efforts. Dr. McManus has over 20 years of scientific software and business experience, including operational management, business development, strategic product planning, research and development, product marketing and product management expertise. Prior to joining GenomeQuest, Dr. McManus served as Vice President of Business Development for the BioSciences Group of Fujitsu Computer Systems, where he helped set up and initiate the Group's U.S. operations. Before Fujitsu, Dr. McManus served as Executive VP and COO of AnVil, Inc. Prior to AnVil, he served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at CambridgeSoft Corporation. Dr. McManus received his Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. in chemistry, summa cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Dr. Jean-Jacques Codani
Chief Scientific Officer, Director and Founder

Dr. Codani provides the GenomeQuest's technology vision and direction. For over a decade he has been a leading innovator in the development of the core technologies used to implement GenomeQuest. Prior to his association with GenomeQuest he lead a four year research program on large scale sequence search at the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Control (INRIA). Before that he was instrumental in developing the computational tools necessary for the physical mapping of the human genome at the Genethon/CEPH.

Deirdre O Aubuchon
Chief Financial Officer

Deirdre O AubuchonAs chief financial officer, Deirdre Aubuchon is responsible for GenomeQuest’s worldwide financial operations ensuring that the company maintains the financial infrastructure necessary to successfully execute the company's strategic plan. She brings to GenomeQuest over 20 years of financial leadership helping to build fast-growing technology companies. Aubuchon most recently served as Deploy Solutions’ chief financial and operating officer when the SaaS company achieved five consecutive years of more than 50% annual revenue growth while earning both local and national Best Places to Work awards prior to selling the company to Kronos, Inc. Before Deploy, Deirdre served as vice president of finance for ZEFER, where she led the company's IPO process after building the infrastructure to grow the company to 800 employees with $110 million of revenue in less than two years. Prior to joining ZEFER, she was vice president of corporate finance at Liberty International where she directed worldwide M&A activity. She has also held senior-level positions in finance with Berlitz International, Standard & Poor's, and Dun & Bradstreet Software. Aubuchon is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and holds an MBA in finance and accounting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

Dr. Drew Arnold, Ph.D.
Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Dr. Arnold leads GenomeQuest’s global sales team. Drew joined GenomeQuest in 2006 as head of strategic accounts, a role in which he was a leader and major contributor to GenomeQuest’s compelling sales successes. He has over 10 years of experience in the life sciences industry, largely in senior business development, management and scientific applications roles. Prior to joining GenomeQuest, Dr. Arnold served as Vice President of Business Development for Silicon Informatics, Inc. Before Silicon Informatics, he was Senior Director, Business Development at LION Bioscience of Cambridge, where he set up US sales and support operations and lead strategic alliances for drug discovery. Dr. Arnold also served as Group Leader, Scientific Applications Managers, for Molecular Applications Group, Inc. He received his Ph.D. in physiology from Cornell University in 1993 and also has degrees from Oregon State University and the University of Minnesota.

Andrzej Wozniak
Chief Software Architect

Mr. Wozniak is responsible for the development of the high performance computing technology underlying GenomeQuest. He has been with the company since 2001. Mr. Wozniak previously held a senior position in the simulation and development of Itanium based multi-processor architectures at Bull company in France. Before that he held a position as a researcher in experimental computing architectures, algorithm optimization and video conferencing codecs at the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Control (INRIA). Mr. Wozniak holds several patents in technology related fields. His extensive experience in hardware and software development is essential for the optimization of the various search algorithms and the handling of large amounts of sequence data efficiently.

Dr. Kamalakar Gulukota
Product Evangelist

Prior to joining GenomeQuest, Dr Gulukota built and directed the Clinical Research division at GVK Biosciences in India and prior to that directed the Bioinformatics Core Sciences group for Wyeth in Cambridge, MA. With rich experience in drug discovery and development as well as computational biology, Dr Gulukota brings a unique vision and direction for shaping GenomeQuest's content strategy for GenomeQuest.

Dr. Hendrik Heus
Senior Director, Sequencing Business

Dr. Heus has been with the company since January 2001 and previously held a research position with NV Organon/Akzo Nobel in the Netherlands. Dr. Heus uniquely combines business, molecular biology and software development skills. The principal architect of the GenomeQuest application, Dr. Heus now leads the company's sequencing business initiative. His extensive genomics-based drug discovery and research experience enables GenomeQuest to continuously anticipate and respond to the needs of both technical and bench end-users.