Ron is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Alveo Technologies. Dr. Chiarello is a compassionate and successful business leader who has led a distinguished career building on more than 25 years of expertise in designing, developing and manufacturing cutting-edge micro-fluidic, micro-electronics and semiconductor technologies. An entrepreneur at heart, Dr. Chiarello has successfully founded, led, and sold multiple startups specializing in applying these technologies to a range of sensing and diagnostic challenges.

Mike is the President and a Founder of Alveo Technologies. Prior to Alveo, Mike co-founded and served as National Genetics Institute’s (NGI) CEO from 1991 to 2012. NGI became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Laboratory Corporation of America (NASDAQ: LH) in 2000, where he held various positions. He ran the company’s “Esoteric Business Units”, which generated over $1 billion in annual revenue.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Redlands, a Master of Business Administration in Economics from Columbus University and is a certified Global Biotechnology Executive from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also received Ernst and Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” award for emerging technologies.

Robin is a member of the Alveo Board of Directors and has practiced corporate and tax law for 30 years, primarily in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. She has extensive experience in financings, collaborations and M&A. Most recently Robin served 10 years as Senior Vice President and General Counsel to InterMune, Inc., a publicly traded (NASDAQ) biopharmaceutical company that was acquired by Roche in late 2014.

Robin previously served eight years as Vice President of Legal Affairs for Elan Pharmaceuticals, a publicly-traded (NYSE) global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Robin received a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Colorado, a J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and a LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.

Dr. Bharat Tewarie is a C-suite leader with deep expertise in developing, shaping, and turning around biopharma companies to outpace competitors and achieve #1 performance. He gained an extensive background in multiple aspects of pharmaceutical management, including P&L responsibility, corporate strategy, marketing, access, insights, sales, product launches and business development.
He gathered a compelling track record in structuring commercial organizations across settings, cultures, and geographies (USA and Europe) for profitable product performance and has been a catalyst for change and transformation in both global and local roles at Boehringer Ingelheim, Roche, Serono International, EMD Serono and Merck Serono.
After working for the last five years as the EVP & Chief Marketing Officer and member of the Executive Committee of UCB, he founded in 2020 the advisory firm Boston BioPharma Consultants and became a member of the Board of Advisors of Ahara Biosciences and Duluth Medical Technologies.
He is a thought leader on the topics of Patient Value, Product and Medical Device Launches, Patient Experience, Digital Technologies and specifically AI to address biopharma business challenges.
He joined Alveo Technologies in March 2020 as a member of the Board of Directors.

Julianne Averill is the Chief Financial Officer at Alveo Technologies.  Prior to Alveo, Julianne was VP, Finance at BlackThorn Therapeutics and she has also spent 18+ years in various leadership positions helping organizations in the life sciences and digital health fields scale their finance, accounting, and business operations. She has participated in or led over $2B in successful strategic financing and M&A initiatives accretive to growth.

Julianne is licensed as an active Certified Public Accountant in the State of California and is also a Society of Human Resource Management Certified Professional. She graduated with Distinction from California State University, Fresno, with a Master’s of Accountancy and Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration.

Previous to Alveo Technologies, Johnson was the Head of Systems Integration & Molecular Biology at Foundation Medicine, Inc. and held senior management positions at Life Technologies and Thermo Fisher Scientific where he led systems design, integration, verification and validation for qPCR and next-generation sequencing platforms.

Johnson has led a number of molecular diagnostic product development projects from concept to commercialization at Applied MEMS, Applied Biosystems Inc., and Cepheid; designed and developed several successful microfluidics products; filed several patents; and published numerous biotechnology papers. He has extensive experience in instrument development as well as design control for 510k and PMA applications.

John is the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations. John comes to this position from Siemens Healthineers Molecular Diagnostics where he led Program Management, PMO and New Product Introduction. Before that he was responsible for leading consulting organizations in the product development, product management, strategy and supply-chain space drawing on his previous experience in product development and supply-chain in several industries including in-vitro diagnostics and high-volume tech products.

John holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kingston University (UK), a Masters Degree in Engineering Design from Loughborough University (UK) and an MBA from Henley Management College (UK). He is also a Professional Engineer (Oregon), Chartered Engineer (UK) and a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK).

Doug Hart is a successful leader with 20 years in business development and marketing, Doug’s leadership has focused on driving company growth, strategic agility, relationship management and creating value for healthcare through technology.

Most recently, Doug served as the Senior Director of Business Development for Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) where he led the business development division, managed and negotiated regional multi-million dollars in contracts. Prior to joining IHA, Doug held leadership positions with Florida Blue, Deloitte Consulting, MedeAnalytics and McKesson committed to company revenue generation and client success. His expertise is working with health plans, health systems, physician groups and government agencies. Prior his healthcare experience, he spent 11 years in sales and marketing with Sony Corporation of America.

Doug earned a Bachelors of Science in electronic engineering technology from the University of Southern Mississippi. He is a guitarist, winemaker, enjoys the outdoors and is a United States Air Force Veteran.

Prior to joining Alveo Technologies, Dmitriy was VP, Software Engineering at LumiGrow Inc, where he led development and implementation of complex multi-component IoT system for spectrum LEDs control in industrial greenhouses globally. Prior to that, Dmitriy spent 13+ years building and managing highly scalable cloud SaaS-based enterprise performance management and business analytics solutions and platforms utilizing big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence for the US and UK healthcare systems, working in companies like Manifest MedEx (California’s largest health information exchange), MedeAnalytics, Inc. and VisiQuate, Inc. where he served in a variety of senior management roles leading IT, Security administration, product engineering, development and quality assurance. His broad leadership background also includes leadership roles at Apple Inc. and Wachovia Corporation. Dmitriy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Ural State Technical University.

Kyle is the Engineering Director at Alveo Technologies, guiding products from early-stage R&D to manufacturing. At Alveo, Kyle has held roles of increasing responsibility including New Product Development Engineer and Engineering Manager.

Prior to his time with Alveo, Kyle worked at Entegris Jetalon as a New Product Development Engineer, serving as the team lead and taking multiple semiconductor sensor products from concept to market. Kyle received his Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University in Earth and Space Exploration.

Praveena Mallarkandy brings 20+ years of experience in software engineering at technology-based startups and medical device companies, knowledge and expertise in regulatory standards, data privacy, and cybersecurity laws. Before joining Alveo Technologies, Praveena built and led the software productivity and data engineering team at Verb Surgical, from the ground up. She was responsible for developing batch and real-time data pipelines, cloud connectivity, data analytics tools, mobile app, automation, infrastructure, software integration & verification for Verb Surgical’s surgical robotics system and digital platform.

As a startup founder, Praveena has experience building cloud-based SaaS applications collaborating with other entrepreneurs in silicon-valley and Bangalore. At Alveo Technologies, Praveena directs software development of firmware, mobile app, cloud services, automation software, data engineering, and analytics tools.

Rixun brings over 20 years of experience in IVD development to his role as Alveo’s Director of Assay Development. He has successfully led many projects from inception through development and implementation at Applied Biosystems, Life Technologies, and Thermo Fisher Scientific, following GMP/QSR/ISO compliances and the PCP process.

He has worked through IVD product 510k and PMA submissions with FDA, initiated and led collaborative projects with many internationally well-known institutions, holds six patents, and has authored multiple publications.

Kevin is responsible for Alveo’s Quality Management System. He brings with him over 25 years of experience working in the medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and clinical laboratory industries.

Kevin has successfully developed, implemented, and managed quality systems for a number of organizations, ranging from fledgling startups to established global corporations. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from State University of New York at Buffalo and is an ASQ-certified Quality Auditor.

Aman is the Director of Manufacturing at Alveo Technologies and is responsible for developing and implementing a sustainable manufacturing strategy for new product introductions. Aman joined Alveo from Siemens Healthineers where he was Head of New Product Introductions for the molecular diagnostics division. At Siemens, Aman was deeply involved with numerous diagnostic development projects from concept through commercialization.

Prior to Siemens, Aman worked at Chrysler LLC where he was responsible for high-volume automation scale-up and manufacturing management across multiple new vehicle launches. Aman earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University and Oakland University respectively.

Shad is the Senior Hardware Engineer / Technology Architect at Alveo Technologies. Shad conceptualizes technical solutions to bring visionary ideas to the benchtop for testing. His contributions range from algorithm development to PCB design and bring-up to new intellectual property generation.

Prior to Alveo, Shad worked at Entegris Jetalon as a Research Engineer, guiding the early stage development of multiple products. Shad has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Davis.

Robert Di Tullio is an experienced industry expert providing custom quality and regulatory solutions to the medical devices industry, specializing in diagnostics, as President of Di Tullio Consulting Inc., since 2013. He has 46 years of experience in the In Vitro Diagnostics Industry, the last 35 of which is in regulatory, clinical and quality management. Previously, he was Vice President, Global Regulatory and Clinical Affairs for Alere Inc. from 2010 until 2013, and held similar positions at ProteoGenix, Sequenom, Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics and Diagnostic Products Corporation.

Robert was the Co-Chair of the AdvaMed Diagnostics Task Force from 2007 until 2013, the Diagnostics Industry Liaison to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC) from 2011 until 2014 and is a long-time member of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS). He was an advisory board member for the medical device graduate degree curriculum at the University of Southern California from 2004 until 2006. Robert received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.