Robert Feldman

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Biotech Executive/Advisor/Entrepreneur @ Fluxus Inc.
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Santa Cruz, California, United States, United States
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About Robert Feldman

Biotech executive, board member and advisor with experience and demonstrated success founding startups, working in rapidly scaling growth companies leading to IPOs and helping position large international companies moving through M&As. Exceptional relationship builder, networker to investors, VCs, technical experts, strategic partners and team builders. Domain and leadership expertise in complex multi-stakeholder biotech, diagnostics, genomics, bioinformatics, product development, marketing, sales and support programs. Business acumen in strategy and corporate development. Excels in high stress dynamic environments and situations where pragmatic leadership and decision making is essential.CORE COMPETENCIES AND SKILLSBiotech executive: Startup formation, vision creation, fund raising, value creation, hiring, leading and managing diverse teams of scientists, marketing/sales forces from company inception through R&D to product/service specification launch, sales, growth and support. Strategic business development: Extensive network of investors, technical experts, strategic partners. Skilled in competitive analysis and positioning, identification of complementary technologies, deal structuring, negotiation and deal closing for corporate development.Domain expertise: Business development, strategy, competitive analysis, operations, investor relations, board management, program management and development of diagnostics, biotech, genomics, NGS, bioinformatics programs to applications, products and services for medical genetics and cancer, clinical collaborations, diagnostics, microbiome.PublicationsIn several roles I have built world class teams initiating and leading collaborations bridging academic KOLs to the company. Our work in microbial genomics of deep sea hydrothermal vent organisms, ecological metagenomics and human microbiomics resulted in seminal, high profile, high impact works co-authored and published in Nature, Science and PNAS. From a list of over 40 publications, (according to Google Scholar), these publications have over 12,000 citations; 18 have over 100, 4 have over 1,000 and 1 has been cited more than 5,300 times.

Robert Feldman's Current Company Details
Fluxus Inc.

Fluxus Inc.

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Robert Feldman Work Experience Details
  • Fluxus Inc.
    Senior Vice President, Business Development And Strategic Initiatives
    Fluxus Inc. Oct 2022 - Present
    Sunnyvale, California, Us
    Fluxus is developing and commercializing biochip-based, opto-fluidic, single molecule detection platforms for ultra-high sensitivity diagnostics and biosensor applications. Fluxus was recently acquired by, and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujirebio Inc, a global leader and historical pioneer in high performance IVD and clinical diagnostics. Our initial focus areas at Fluxus include neurology, oncology, and infectious disease. I am leading business development and corporate strategy bringing our technology to market.
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  • Fluxus Inc.
    Senior Advisor
    Fluxus Inc. Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
    Sunnyvale, California, Us
    Provided strategic advising to the CEO.
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  • Realseq Biosciences
    Member Board Of Directors
    Realseq Biosciences Oct 2022 - Present
    Santa Cruz, California, Us
    RealSeq’s industry leading small RNA and miRNA NGS library technology allows broad detection with “best in class” low bias. The company have commercialized a wide range of sequencing services including library preparation from extracted RNA or ready-to-sequence pooled libraries, bioinformatic and reagent kits. The company has raised their first funding round (over subscribed) and is expanding and scaling. Happy to connect interested parties with the team.
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  • Silicon Catalyst
    Advisor, Life Sciences
    Silicon Catalyst Mar 2023 - Present
    Santa Clara, Ca, Us
    Silicon Catalyst is the world’s only incubator + accelerator focused on semiconductor solutions, including Photonics, MEMS, sensors, IP, materials and Life Science. We accelerate startups from idea through prototype, and onto a path to volume production. I am advising on applicant companies in the life sciences.
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  • S2 Genomics
    Strategic Advisor
    S2 Genomics Apr 2021 - Present
    Livermore, California, Us
    S2 Genomics enables automated processing of raw tissues into single cells or nuclei for genomics and cell biology studies. I am advising the CEO and CSO on business and corporate development.
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  • Buzzkill Labs
    Strategic Advisor
    Buzzkill Labs Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
    Livermore, California, Us
    Buzzkill Labs is modernizing drug testing for a world of legal cannabis by developing innovative technology combining noninvasive sampling with sensitive detection and quantitation. I provided strategic advising to the founder, lead investor and board.
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  • Prime Genomics
    President And Ceo
    Prime Genomics Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
    Prime Genomics (morphed into AeenaDx, merged with NowDx) was a noninvasive disease diagnostic company focused on transforming breast cancer screening. I took on the company at a critical time and navigated through key hiring, R&D, product specification, fund raising and operation commencement including remote clinical sample collection. Recruited by the lead VC investor and hired by the board as President and CEO, I raised Series A funding and led the company through the Series A milestones and deliverables.
  • Centrillion Biosciences, Inc.
    Vp Business Development
    Centrillion Biosciences, Inc. Feb 2010 - Jan 2015
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    Within Centrillion, I founded and ran an Illumina based genomics and bioinformatics service business as General Manager with P&L responsibilities. Led all aspects of sales, marketing, product/service development, project management, customer support. Services included exome sequencing, RNAseq, whole genomes, GWAS on microarray systems, bioinformatics analyses and support.
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  • Symbio Corporation
    President And Ceo
    Symbio Corporation Jul 2003 - Dec 2009
    I founded SymBio as a $3.5M spinoff from Amersham Biosciences via bootstrapping contracts. SymBio was a genomics service partner for academic, medical and industrial researchers. Led grants as PI and administrator of NSF, NIH awards and sub awards, PI on deep-sea metagenomics projects, medical projects including lung cancer RNA sequencing, HIV sequencing, gut microbiomes.
  • University Of Delaware
    Adjunct Associate Professor
    University Of Delaware 2002 - 2006
    Newark, De, Us
    Metagenomic studies of microbial populations of deep sea hydrothermal vent associated microbes.
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  • Molecular Dynamics (Acquired By Amersham Biosciences, Ge Healthcare, Cytiva, Danaher)
    Collaborations Manager, Genomics Applications Development
    Molecular Dynamics (Acquired By Amersham Biosciences, Ge Healthcare, Cytiva, Danaher) May 1999 - May 2003
    I founded the high-throughput genomic lab conducting high visibility R&D projects for alpha and beta testing of DNA seq and bioinformatics platforms. Provided marketing and sales support of MegaBACE instruments, TempliPhi reagents, and Cimarron SW platforms for high throughput genomics customers (JGI, Wash U, Whitehead, BGI, UWash, Baylor). Our platforms powered the sequencing of the human genome and contributed to the $9.5B acquisition by GEHC in 2003
  • Diversa Corporation (Verenium --> Basf)
    Staff Scientist, Genomics
    Diversa Corporation (Verenium --> Basf) 1997 - 1999
    Diversa was a groundbreaking genomics and bioinformatics development company creating and mining environmental metagenomic expression libraries for enzymes for pharmaceutical, agriculture, chemical processing, oil production, etc. Participated in >$200M IPO, at that time, the largest ever for a genomics tools company. I co-developed company wide bioinformatics platform was project leader on comparative environmental genomics and key conference presenter on early bacterial genome projects resulting in worldwide press coverage.
  • Rutgers University
    Research Assistant Professor
    Rutgers University 1994 - 1997
    New Brunswick, Nj, Us
    Genetic studies of microbial symbionts of deep sea hydrothermal vent invertebrates
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Robert Feldman Skills

Genomics Biotechnology Bioinformatics Dna Sequencing Genetics Commercialization R&d Microbiology Lifesciences Life Sciences Product Development Management Start Ups Product Launch High Throughput Screening Medical Devices Biology Genotyping Marketing Sales Medical Genetics Product Support Networking Operations Management Research And Development Grant Administration Human Exomes Next Gen Sequencing

Robert Feldman Education Details

  • University Of Hawaii At Manoa
    University Of Hawaii At Manoa
    Genetics
  • University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    General

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