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Holger KarasToday I am working as Senior Field Application Specialist Enterprise Solutions at QIAGEN with main responsibility for Europe. Right now I have no desire at all, to change to a new position, if this ever changes, I will remove this remark. Sorry recruiters, it makes no sense to contact me ...As one of the founders of BIOBASE, I was Representative Director and General Manager of Nihon BIOBASE KK in Yokohama, Japan and member of the board of directors. I was responsible for Business Development in Germany, responsible for setting up the relations between HGMD and BIOBASE, HGMD is today one of the most successful products of BIOBASE. I left BIOBASE mostly for undisclosed reasons, part of it was to accept a new challenge. I have no affiliations with BIOBASE anymore.I have a degree in chemistry of University of Braunschweig and worked in bioinformatics since 1993 in Edgar Wingender's group before entering the business domain in 1997.In my scientific career I was responsible for basic conception of the relational database schema for TRANSFAC as well as the development of the internet infrastructure and the first user interface. I also developed the tool “Patch” and evaluated structural DNA parameters for the recognition of transcription factor binding sites. More than 9 publications were the outcome of these activities. After that, I moved on to a more business related career. In 1997 I was one of the founders of BIOBASE and took over the responsibility as CEO in 1998. Consequently I built the business from a one man show to 5 employees in autumn 1999. I raised in total 2.5 Million Euro venture capital as well as a strategic investment of 600.000 Euro for BIOBASE.Specialties: Technology Evaluation, Market Evaluation, Customer relations, HTML, CSS, Adobe Software, Photography, Next Generation Sequencing, CLC Software Solution, NGS Data Analysis, Databases, Teaching

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