Gold Standard Diagnostics
The Benchmark in Customer Solutions
Management Team
John Griffiths
President
John Griffiths is the President and CEO of Gold Standard Diagnostics. In September 2006, Mr. Griffiths co-founded GSD with a passion to provide innovative products and services that exceed industry standards. He has set his sights on pioneering solutions that advance health care in the areas of disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Prior to GSD, Mr. Griffiths served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for KenStar Corporation, Helix Diagnostics, Scimedx Corporation and Marketing Development Manager for Bio-Rad Laboratories. During his career, he has designed and built a number of robotic platforms, launched numerous autoimmune and infectious disease products while setting a new standard in customer service.
Robert Hatch
VP Business Development
Rob has been successful as a serial entrepreneur, an employee and senior executive in successful start ups and Fortune 100 companies. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Mr. Hatch initially worked in the laboratory distribution businesses of American Hospital Supply Corporation and then Baxter Healthcare. In 1990 and 1992 he founded start up manufacturing, sales and marketing organizations to meet unmet needs in the Healthcare and Life Sciences markets where he was successful in raising capital for rapid growth and then selling one of these companies to a public corporation in 1998. He then led the Integration of this business into the public corporation as Vice President and General Manager of a business within Kimberly-Clark Corporation’s Healthcare business. Subsequent to his tenure with Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Mr. Hatch worked as Director of Global Accounts and Vice President of Global Marketing for VWR International supporting its largest global customers and managing its production supplies and safety businesses supporting global laboratory and pharmaceutical manufacturing customers. He then joined an operating room automation business as President and CEO where he raised $3MM to fund the completion of prototypes, regulatory approval and initial customer evaluations. Rob is currently acting as VP, Business Development and is leading the project to bring the first GSD developed instrument to market.
Jennifer Roth
Director, Technical Affairs
With years of experience in the Clinical Diagnostics field, Ms. Roth has been involved in product development, manufacturing, marketing, Quality Control, Regulatory Affairs, instrumentation and customer service. Jennifer’s prior experience includes Helix Diagnostics, a pioneer in autoimmunity, where she introduced a number of new products and robotic platforms to customers. After Bio-Rad’s acquisition of Helix Diagnostics, Ms. Roth was responsible for training, technical service and procedure writing for autoimmune products. Jennifer then joined Scimedx where she managed the technical and robotics programs as well as working closely with the FDA on new products. As Director, Technical Affairs and partner at GSD Ms. Roth is responsible for customer service, technical service, validations, robotics, and regulatory affairs.
Jim Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Jim Thompson has been with Gold Standard Diagnostics for 3 years, and runs the Company’s finances, operations, and business strategy. Jim has 18 years of public and private company experience, and has provided senior financial consulting for several startup companies over the past ten years. Prior to GSD, Jim served as Chief Financial Officer at Air Media, Inc., a software and solutions provider for mobile phone applications, which was sold to AOL. Jim has consulted for several high technology startups, including Fuego Nation, iGames, Lytix, and Veroscan, Inc. He served as US Director of Finance and Operations for publicly traded Madge Networks (UK), and has also held finance positions at Frame Technology/Adobe Systems, and Radius, Inc. Jim also serves on the Board of Directors of Faces of Tomorrow, a non-profit organization that performs medical missions throughout the world in the area of facial plastics surgery and orthodontia.
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- 07/25/2010 Anaheim, CA: GSD will exhibit at the AACC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo
- 08/07/2010 Orlando, FL: GSD will exhibit at the AMLI Annual Meeting
- 11/17/2010 Düsseldorf, Germany: GSD will attend Medica
