Management Team

Board of Directors

• David Thompson
• Gordon Brunner
• James Connelly
• Kevin Conroy
• Katherine Napier
• Lawrence Murphy
• Lionel Sterling

Kevin Conroy

President and Chief Executive Officer

Kevin Conroy was appointed president and chief executive officer in December 2005. He joined Third Wave as vice president of legal affairs in July 2004 and was appointed general counsel and secretary in October 2004. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Conroy worked for GE Healthcare, where he oversaw the development and management of its Information Technologies group intellectual property portfolio, and developed and executed litigation, licensing, and corporate and product acquisition legal strategies. Before joining GE, Mr. Conroy was an intellectual property litigator at two Chicago law firms, McDermott Will & Emery, and Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard and Geraldson, where he was a partner. He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Michigan State University and his law degree from the University of Michigan.

Cindy Ahn

Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary

Ms. Ahn joins Third Wave from the Kirkland & Ellis law firm, where she was a partner and key member of the team that successfully litigated Third Wave's patent infringement suit against Stratagene Corp., which resulted in a $20.1-million award to Third Wave. Ms. Ahn joined Kirkland & Ellis in May 2000 and also represented Third Wave in the successful enforcement of its intellectual property against Eragen Biosciences. Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis, Ms. Ahn was an attorney with the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner in Washington, D.C. She was a technician at Abbott Laboratories before entering law school. Ms. Ahn earned her bachelor's of science degree in biology at the University of Illinois and her law degree from American University's Washington College of Law.

Maneesh Arora

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Arora joined Third Wave in January 2003 with a strong background in finance and business strategy. He joined the company as Director of Strategy and was promoted successively to Vice President and Senior Vice President in 2004. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer in January 2006. Prior to joining Third Wave, Mr. Arora was Director of Corporate Strategy for Nalco Chemical Company. Mr. Arora began his career at Kraft Foods as a financial analyst and held several positions of increasing responsibility during his nine years there. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in business administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Christopher Burton

Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Mr. Burton brings nearly 20 years of selling and marketing experience to his new role at Third Wave. He joins the company from GE Healthcare, where he was most recently the general manager of sales and marketing for its $200-million maternal and infant care unit. Mr. Burton and his team of more than 80 sales and marketing professionals marketed infant-care-related equipment and software to hospitals in the United States and Canada. Prior to his most recent role at GE Healthcare, Mr. Burton was general manager of more than 75 sales professionals there who sold to 2,500 U.S. hospitals and thousands of physicians' offices. Mr. Burton and his team grew revenue from that market segment by more than 135%. He joined GE Healthcare in 1993 as a regional sales representative for the company's monitoring and information systems business unit. Mr. Burton earned a B.A. Speech Communications from Wake Forest University, as well as an MBA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

John Bellano

Vice President, Sales

Mr. Bellano joined Third Wave in February 2005 as regional vice president of sales from Roche Diagnostics. He was promoted to Vice President of Sales in January 2006. Mr. Bellano joined Roche in early 2000, where he became one of four regional business managers for its molecular business in the United States. As a regional business manager, he hired and developed a sales team of 11 representatives with revenues of more than $50 million. His sales organization regularly exceeded its goals. Mr. Bellano also has managed multi-million dollar territories for Abbott Laboratories and Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur, where he was responsible for infectious disease products in the northeastern United States.

Jorge Garces, PhD

Senior Vice President, Research & Development

Dr. Garces joined Third Wave from Genzyme Genetics in October 2005 as executive director of clinical development and was promoted to Vice President, Research and Development in October 2006. Dr. Garces served as director of molecular research and development at Genzyme Genetics, where he oversaw the technology and product development activities of laboratory staff in New York, Los Angeles, and Westborough, Mass. Before joining Genzyme, Dr. Garces worked as an associate product manager, and research and development scientist at Athena Diagnostics, and served at Proteome Inc. He earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Brooklyn College and his doctorate in cell and molecular biology from the City University of New York. Dr. Garces completed his post-doctoral training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Gregory Hamilton

Vice President, Operations, Quality, & Regulatory

Greg Hamilton has served as our Vice President of Operations since January 2008. Mr. Hamilton joined us in February 2005 as Executive Director, Planning and Administration, Vice President of Finance from January 2006 through October 2006 and as Vice President of Finance and Operations from October 2006 through December 2007. Mr. Hamilton joined the Company from Leo Burnett USA, where he served as controller of its U.S. subsidiaries and then successively as vice president and chief financial officer of three of its business units. Prior to joining Leo Burnett USA, Mr. Hamilton was an auditor and consultant at the Arthur Andersen and Accenture firms. He earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Purdue University.

Ivan Trifunovich, PhD

Senior Vice President

Ivan has served as Senior Vice President since December 2001. Dr. Trifunovich previously held successive positions as Vice President of e-business and Vice President of Research Strategy and Operations at Pharmacia Corp. Prior to joining Pharmacia, Dr. Trifunovich was Director of New Product Marketing at Johnson & Johnson Inc. He began his career at Bristol-Myers Squibb as a bench scientist, where he held several positions of increasing responsibility. He earned a PhD in organic chemistry at UCLA and an MBA at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He is the holder of 10 U.S. patents.