Michael joined PetaGene from Seven Bridges where he was Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager of National Programmes and brings his expertise in large-scale genomics, health information technologies, and enterprise systems development. Prior to Seven Bridges Michael was Chief Scientist at Leidos and occupied several executive positions at Lockheed Martin Health & Life Sciences. He has a B.A. in Molecular Biology from the University of California, San Diego and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco.