Gaithersburg, Md., USA - April 21, 2105, Gaithersburg, Md., USA - OpGen, Inc., a molecular testing and bioinformatics company, appoints former Foundation Medicine executive Kevin Krenitsky as president, and Timothy C. Dec as interim chief financial officer.
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Through December 2014, Dr. Krenitsky was chief commercial officer and previously chief operating officer of Foundation Medicine. He joined Foundation in June 2011 and was instrumental in taking the company from a start-up organization to a successful IPO in 2013.
Prior to Foundation Medicine, Dr. Krenitsky served as president of Enzo Clinical Labs, where he instituted a comprehensive strategic and operational plan that led to the introduction and launch of numerous FDA-approved esoteric tests, as well as several new laboratory developed tests.
He served as chief executive officer at both BioServe Biotechnologies, a global biotechnology company specializing in processing genetic diagnostic tests, and Parkway Clinical Laboratories, a clinical diagnostic lab providing comprehensive routine and esoteric testing.
Dr. Krenitsky also held various senior-level positions within Genomics Collaborative, Inc. (a SeraCare Life Sciences Company), a full-scale clinical and genomics research company.
Dr. Krenitsky received a B.S. in business management from the University of Scranton and an M.D. from Jefferson Medical College (now the Sidney Kimmel Medical College) in Philadelphia. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the New York State Clinical Lab Association and of BioServe Biotechnologies, and serves on the Board of Scientific Directors of GuideDx.
Mr. Dec has more than 20 years of public company financial leadership experience in technology and healthcare. Mr. Dec has served in Chief Financial Officer or other senior financial executive roles at companies in a number of industries, including three publicly traded companies listed on NASDAQ or AMEX, such as Corvis Corporation, and at private equity-backed companies.
Prior to joining OpGen, Mr. Dec served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Clubwidesports, LLC, a start-up sports management software company, from January 2014 to April 2015. From August 2007 to December 2012, Mr. Dec was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Fortress International Group, Inc., a publicly traded company.
He also has public accounting firm experience. He is an adjunct professor at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he teaches M.B.A. courses in Finance. ■