Jeffrey W. Williams, Ph.D. – President, Lucigen Corporation Dr. Williams joined Lucigen Corporation in 2009 as President. Prior to joining Lucigen, he held senior level positions at several life science and diagnostic companies. At Ambion and later Asuragen he was Vice President of Operations and Product Development where he was responsible for the diagnostic business and the successful commercialization of several diagnostic products. Before joining Ambion, Dr. Williams spent over 10 years at Roche Diagnostics holding several senior level positions. From 1998 to 2002 he was Vice President and General Manager at Roche Applied Science, during the launch of the LightCycler and many new PCR-based products for the life science and diagnostic markets, before that he was Director of Operations at Roche Molecular Systems and was responsible for the production of all PCR products. Prior to Roche, Dr. Williams spent 6 years as Director of Operations at Promega Corporation. Dr. Williams received both his BS and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.