GenomeQuest, Inc. Announces Anthony Salerno Joins as Vice President, Strategic Business Development
Genomic information search and analysis leader adds life sciences industry veteran to leadership team
Westborough, Massachusetts -
February 25, 2008 - GenomeQuest, Inc. today announced that it has expanded its leadership team by hiring veteran life sciences industry executive Anthony Salerno as Vice President, Strategic Business Development. Mr. Salerno will be responsible for guiding GenomeQuest’s entry into the next-generation DNA sequencing bioinformatics market, and his duties will include the creation and maintenance of close ties and alliances with leaders in the next-generation sequencing vendor community.
“I am delighted to be joining GenomeQuest’s exceptional executive team at this very exciting time in the company’s development,” Mr. Salerno said. “The company is the acknowledged leader in genomic search and data management, having established a strong brand with its customers in diverse pharmaceutical and bioindustrial markets.”
Mr. Salerno added, “Today, GenomeQuest is ideally positioned to address new, unmet needs in the marketplace resulting from the unprecedented amount of sequence data being generated by the rapid uptake of next-generation instruments. Our novel database architecture, in combination with a powerful suite of proprietary algorithms, enables sequence data to be indexed, searched, aligned and visualized with unprecedented simplicity, speed and scalability.”
Ronald Ranauro, President and Chief Executive Officer of GenomeQuest, Inc., said, “We are extremely pleased to announce the addition of Anthony Salerno to our leadership team. Tony has spent 25 years in the life sciences industry, and brings a wealth of relevant experience and insight to our company. He’s joining us at a key turning point in our evolution, and will immediately be able to impact our plans for entering into the next-generation sequencing market.”
Prior to joining GenomeQuest, Inc., Mr. Salerno was with Agilent Technologies, Inc. in the role of Director, Strategic Business Development. Previous to Agilent, he was a successful entrepreneur with notable accomplishments in technology planning, market development and strategy. Mr. Salerno was Founder, President and CEO of VectorObjects, Managing Director of BioDynamics Associates, Senior Consultant at Vysis, Inc., now part of Abbott Diagnostics, and founding Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Tropix, Inc., now a division of Applied Biosystems, Inc. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of the Holy Cross, and studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
About GenomeQuest, Inc.
GenomeQuest, Inc. is the leading genomic information company providing applications and services to manage and mine the world’s sequence data. The company’s flagship product, GenomeQuest ™, is a web-based sequence information platform that enables sequence information specialists to exploit genomic information resources including next-generation sequencing tools and worldwide biological sequence reference databases. GenomeQuest’s customers leverage high-speed algorithms and sophisticated analysis and reporting tools to transform data into functional knowledge, on-demand. GenomeQuest delivers genomic data access, management, and utility to over 140 leading life science companies and IP law firms, worldwide.