Biocept, Inc. has appointed Linda Rubinstein and Antonino Morales to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. The company also named Director Samuel D. Riccitelli as Chairman of the Board, succeeding long-time Chair David Hale and interim Chair M. Faye Wilson, both of whom remain Directors. Rubinstein and Morales each brings extensive financial expertise and leadership experience to the Board, supporting Biocept’s focus on strategic growth and the advancement of its oncology diagnostics franchise. With these two additions, Biocept’s Board will increase from seven Directors to nine. Rubinstein has over 30 years of financial and capital markets experience in life sciences and investment banking. As CFO of public and private companies, she has contributed to strategy and operations, executed financial transactions, and delivered corporate and investor positioning. Since 2010 she has been a partner at FLG Partners, where she provides financial and strategic consulting services to life science and other companies such as Apexigen, ArmaGen, Five Prime, Kezar Life Sciences, Ingenuity Systems, iPierian and True North. Previously, she was a Principal at RDJ Advisors. Rubinstein also served as Vice President and CFO at Solexa, a biotech company with a leading DNA sequencing platform for genetic analysis, where in 2006 she helped negotiate the sale to Illumina, a global leader in genomics. Morales is a CPA and brings more than 30 years of broad international executive leadership experience in financial consulting, business development, operations, regulatory compliance, and risk management. He has worked with leading organizations such as Citibank, Bank of America, Arthur Anderson and Mazda North America, as well as with entrepreneurial start-ups. Most recently, Morales was president and CEO of Apoyo Financiero, Inc. Riccitelli was appointed to the Biocept Board of Directors in October 2020. He has more than 35 years of experience in the healthcare industry and currently serves as an independent consultant to healthcare companies and as a Director of OrthoPediatrics Corp.
Biocept, Inc. is a molecular oncology diagnostics company. The Company focuses on developing and commercializing clinical diagnostic laboratory assays designed to identify rare tumor cells and cell-free tumor deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Its product is branded and trademarked under the name CNSide. CNSide encompasses a suite of cellular and molecular technologies intended to aid medical professionals in CSF analysis and central nervous system (CNS) disease management in patients with solid tumors. It offers and conducts its commercialized diagnostic assays, which include cell capture and enumeration, immunocytochemistry, fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), and next generation sequencing (NGS). It has commercialized its CNSide assays for detecting and characterizing many different carcinomas and melanoma. These assays utilize its dual cellular and ctDNA technology platforms and provide biomarker analysis from a patientâs CSF sample.
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