Frank Witney PhD, joined our Board of Directors in April 2022. He has served as an Operating Partner at Ampersand Capital Partners, a private equity firm, since September 2016. From July 2011 to March 2016, Witney served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Affymetrix, Inc., a provider of life sciences and molecular diagnostic products, until Affymetrix was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. From April 2009 to May 2011, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Dionex Corporation, a provider of analytical instrumentation and related accessories and chemicals. From December 2008 to April 2009, Witney served as Affymetrix’s Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. From July 2002 to December 2008, he was President and Chief Commercial Officer of Panomics Inc. Frank currently serves on the boards of directors of PerkinElmer Inc. (NYSE:PKI), Codex DNA (Nasdaq:DNAY), Cerus Corporation (Nasdaq:CERS), Emulate, Inc., Leinco Technologies, Inc., and JumpCode Genomics, Inc. He has previously served on the boards of Gyros Protein Technologies, RareCyte, Inc., GeneOptx, Canopy Bioscience, and Nexcelom Inc. Frank earned a BS in microbiology from the University of Illinois and an MS in microbiology and a PhD in molecular and cellular biology from Indiana University.