Board of Directors
Scientific Advisory
Board
 
 
 
 
  Management Team Bios
 
Barry R. Bochner, Ph.D.
President, CEO & CSO

Edwin R. Fineman
Vice President of Finance & CFO

Douglas E. Rife
Vice President of Operations

Benjamin A. Bowen, D.Phil.
Vice President of Business Development
 
 
 
 
  Barry R. Bochner, Ph.D.
President, CEO & CSO
  bbochner@biolog.com
 
 
Barry co-founded Biolog and currently serves as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He has led the R&D efforts at Biolog since its inception, resulting in numerous issued or allowed U.S. and international patents. Prior to Biolog, he was a senior scientist and group leader at Genentech, Inc., working on production of recombinant proteins in microorganisms. Barry earned an S.B. in Biology and an S.M. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Michigan, and was a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in Biochemistry with Bruce N. Ames, Ph.D., at the University of California, Berkeley.
 
 
 
 
  Edwin Fineman
Vice President of Finance & CFO
  efineman@biolog.com
 
 
Edwin Fineman, Vice President of Finance, has more than 23 years experience in a wide range of finance, accounting and administrative roles in the medical diagnostic, business services, industrial products and computer industries. Ed has held positions of responsibility in companies ranging from start-up enterprises to large, publicly-traded multi-national corporations. Prior to joining Biolog, Ed was V.P. Finance and Corporate Controller for WageWorks, Inc; Director of Finance for Acuson Corporation and Divisional Controller for Raychem Corporation. Ed has a B.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.B.A. degree from the University of Texas, Austin.
 
 
 
 
  Douglas E. Rife
Vice President of Operations
  drife@biolog.com
 
 
Doug has over 30 years of management experience in operations for diagnostic companies in the medical, agricultural, and microbiological fields. His previous experience includes direct management of manufacturing and materials functions for departments ranging from startup to 60 employees. Prior to joining Biolog, he was Vice President of Operations for ChemTrak, Inc. Doug's early career was in chemical processing, production, and inventory management with diagnostic subsidiaries of Smith Kline & French, and G. D. Searle. He was certified at the fellow level in MRP by the American Production and Inventory Control Society. He served as a noncommissioned officer with the U.S. Army Signal Corps, and has a B.A. in Chemistry with Honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
 
 
 
 
  Benjamin A. Bowen, D.Phil.
Vice President of Business Development
  bbowen@biolog.com
 
 
Ben has more than 20 years of experience in the biotechnology industry, primarily in R&D, Business Development and Alliance Management. Prior to joining Biolog, he was Vice President of Discovery Research at Lynx Therapeutics, where he validated the MPSS transcriptomics platform and managed the company's internal discovery programs, including a number of research alliances with pharmaceutical and biotech companies and several leading academic labs. Before Lynx, he spent 11 years as a leading researcher at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the world's largest seed company and now a subsidiary of DuPont. He established several enabling technology programs for genetically engineering corn, exploiting transcription factors and homologous recombination. He also coordinated the AgBiotech industry's first large genomics effort and was responsible for identifying and managing access to several external technology partners. Ben has authored more than 35 research papers and is an inventor on more than 30 issued and pending patents. He has a B.A. in Genetics with Honors from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.
 
 
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