Management
Expression Analysis has assembled a world-class leadership team that inspires confidence in our clients and employees, alike. They are particularly passionate about helping clients succeed using the latest in genomic testing. To this end, they stay on the forefront of genomic innovations and standardization initiatives, ensuring that the company offers the most sophisticated, yet flexible testing and analysis possible.
Steve McPhail, President & Chief Executive Officer
BS Biology - San Diego State UniversitySteve has spent his career serving companies in the diagnostic, biotechnology and medical device markets. He previously acted as executive vice president and Chief Operating Officer of ArgoMed, Inc. Earlier, Steve held senior-level sales, marketing and business development positions for Xanthon, TriPath Imaging, Dynex Technologies and Abbott Laboratories. He has extensive experience in executing mergers and acquisitions, developing strategic marketing plans, and establishing global distribution networks. He serves on the board of the NC Children's Hospital and the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Network.
Dr. Wendell Jones, Vice President, Statistics & Bioinformatics
PhD Statistics - Clemson UniversityWendell is a consulting statistician and thought leader in industry. His interests are bioinformatics, statistical modeling, statistical graphics, and analyzing large datasets. Wendell has been a lead participant in the Microarray Quality Control (MAQC) project and is co-chair of the Clinical Working Group in MAQC Phase II, examining the capabilities of microarrays for predicting outcomes in complex diseases. As a faculty adjunct within the School of Medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wendell supports student research in biology and genetics.
Eric Setzer - Chief Financial Officer
MBA - Duke University, The Fuqua School of BusinessEric has more than 15 years of hands-on experience with the operational and financial challenges faced by growing technology and life science companies. His background includes general management, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, initial public offerings, private placements and business strategy. Eric was most recently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Kolis Scientific, a Research Triangle Park medical device start up. Earlier, he was CFO of two separate venture capital-funded, start-up companies in the health care technology sector, and the Controller of TriPath Imaging, a publicly traded cervical cytology screening company.
Karen Michailo, Director of Marketing
JD - Western State College of LawKaren has spent most of her career in senior-level marketing positions for diverse organizations across varied industries. For a number of years, Karen worked with life science and biotechnology firms, specializing in the planning and implementation of marketing initiatives. Her strengths are in strategic planning and implementation. Karen is an award winning marketer winning two 2009 Diagnostic Marketing Association (DxMA) Creative Communications Awards for her Cure Kids Cancer “Leave Your Fingerprint on the Cure” campaign. The campaign received first place in the category of Interactive Exhibit Kiosks and was recognized as overall “Best of Show”.
Nichole Martin, MSQA, CQA, CMQ/OE- Senior Manager Quality Systems
BS Biochemistry and minor in Genetics - North Carolina State UniversityNichole worked as a cytogenetics technologist for several years with a diagnostics company in RTP, prior to beginning her career in quality within the plasma-derived pharmaceutical industry. She is a senior member of the American Society for Quality and is a Certified Quality Auditor and Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence. She has also successfully completed a Master’s Degree in Quality Assurance program from California State University, Dominguez Hills with her culminating thesis discussing the relationship between personal and professional quality.
Kellie A. Yarnell, National Sales Manager
BS Biochemistry - University of DelawareKellie has a wide range of experience providing technical support and selling genotyping, microarray, and DNA sequencing instrumentation to pharmaceutical, biotech, and academic communities. As national sales manager, she oversees Expression Analysis’ sales representatives and supports several key pharmaceutical accounts in the United States and internationally. Before launching into a sales career in 2001, she provided laboratory and technical support for agricultural genetic testing. Her resume includes positions selling nucleic acid isolation kits and RNAi libraries for Sigma Aldrich and targeted DNA genotyping and sequencing instrumentation for Beckman Coulter.