Executive Management

Guido Baechler
President and Chief Executive Officer

Guido Baechler was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of Singulex in May 2013. Mr. Baechler has worked with emerging technologies in life science and the diagnostic industry for more than two decades, including leadership positions at Roche, and, since 2010, as Senior Vice President of Operations at Singulex. Prior to 2010, Mr. Baechler served as our Vice President of Diagnostics from 2008 until 2009. From 1989 until 2008, Mr. Baechler held leadership positions at Roche Diagnostics and Roche Molecular Diagnostics, or RMD, in both Switzerland and United States, within research, development, marketing and executive management. Mr. Baechler holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Fachhochschule Brugg-Windisch in Switzerland. He also completed a series of executive finance and management classes at the London School of Business and at the Haas Business School in Berkeley.

Michael Bell
Chief Financial Officer

Michael Bell has served as our Chief Financial Officer since May of 2012. As a finance professional, Mr. Bell has more than 18 years of international experience gained from a range of strategic, commercial and operational finance positions. From 2008 to 2012, Mr. Bell held finance positions at Novartis Diagnostics, and prior to joining us served as Global Head of Finance where he was a member of the Diagnostics Leadership Team and had overall responsibility for finance and accounting across the worldwide business. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Bell served as Finance Head for the Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa regions for Novartis Vaccines, where he focused on commercial finance strategies and operations in emerging markets. Prior to this, Mr. Bell was a Finance Director or Chiron Corporation, a multinational biotechnology firm. Before joining the healthcare industry, Mr. Bell spent 10 years in public accounting with Ernst & Young and Deloitte, where he led a wide-range of audit and consulting engagements. Mr. Bell is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with Computing from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.

F. Steven Feinberg
Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Chief Commercial Officer

Frederick Steven Feinberg has served as our Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing and our Chief Commercial Officer since October 2011 and has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining us, from 2008 until 2011, Mr. Feinberg was the Vice President and Zone General Manager for Siemens Healthcare, an international supplier of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, where he was responsible for the healthcare business in the western zone of the United States. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Feinberg served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Asahi Medical Technologies in Japan, and from 2001 until 2006, he served as President of Siemens China Medical Solutions Group and was appointed Executive Vice President and a member of the Management Board for Siemens China. Between 2003 until 2006, Mr. Feinberg served as member of the boards of directors of several subsidiaries of Siemens AG. Prior to joining Siemens, Mr. Feinberg held various senior management positions for medical device companies such as Acuson Corporation, Diasonics, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc. Mr. Feinberg holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Davis and a Nuclear Medicine Technology Diploma from the University of Southern California.

William Hammack
Vice President Human Resources

William Hammack comes to Singulex with nearly forty years of experience in the human resources field, primarily with technology companies. He has provided service to companies from a few hundred employees to tens of thousands, with operations around the world. His background includes creating and managing human resources departments and programs for start-up companies as well as managing HR activities for multi-national public organizations. He has worked in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Mr. Hammack has been a Vice President of HR for more than 30 years serving such companies as Silicone Image, Komag Inc., General Electric Medical Systems and Diasonics/Elbit Medical Systems. He holds a B.A. in Public Policy/Administration from San Diego State University.

Russell Kerschmann, MD
Medical Director

Russell Kerschmann, M.D. comes to Singulex with over thirty years of experience in clinical and laboratory medicine. Prior to joining Singulex Dr. Kerschmann served as the Medical Director at Quest Diagnostics in San Jose, CA for 4 years, and previously spent 5 years as Chief of Life Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Kerschmann’s clinical practice was spent as an anatomic and clinical pathologist on the faculties of the University of Massachusetts and UCSF. Dr. Kerschmann received his M.D. from University of Massachusetts and performed his residency in pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

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