Dr. Chen is a research scientist and business manager with 20 years of business and scientific experience. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, lectured internationally, and is well respected for the quality and integrity of his research.

His management experience started at Applied Biosystems. He had extensive contracts with senior research labs world wide, and was in charge of personnel, budget, planning, scheduling, operations and QC. During his tenure his research team became one of the premier DNA sequencing laboratories in the world.

Since then Dr. Chen has consulted to Taiwan biotechnology companies, planned and launched a manufacturing facility for biopharmaceuticals, designed numerous high-throughput laboratories, and served as the managing partner of a consulting company providing due diligence for biotechnology investors. He is a visiting scholar at Yang Ming University , a member of Taiwan 's National Science Council on biotechnology, and an advisor for the Executive Yuan. He is also an invited speaker at numerous scientific meetings both in Taiwan and the United States , taught the Advanced Genome Sequence Analysis course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and is a United States Patent Agent.

Jim Bowlby is a scientist and entrepreneur with over 30 years of practical business and scientific experience. He holds several patents in direct to paper electrophotography, improved DNA base calling, and non-linear CCD circuits. In addition, he has filed dozens of provisional patents on differential display, electrophoresis, mRNA expression, automated sample preparation, and computational haplotyping.

Mr. Bowlby held senior engineering and technical positions in Silicon Valley startups before joining Ricoh Corporation as the R&D Manager, where he developed their first 600 dpi laser printer. Leaving Ricoh to start his own company, he developed an efficient and low cost slide scanner and sold the company to Microtek.

Later Mr. Bowlby started Bowlby Labs and invented a new electroprinting technology with 1200 dpi resolution. At XRS he discovered an electronic circuit to give CCDs the same wide dynamic range available to photomultiplier tubes. At Applied Biosystems he ran the algorithm group and was responsible for improving DNA base calling using a wide variety of advanced mathematics. At Woodside Technology he developed an array based DNA amplification system. At Vita Genomics he experimented with advanced haplotyping techniques to mine the Celera database for disease genes prevalent in Asian populations.

Rich is a senior marketing and business executive with 25 years of successful Silicon Valley experience leading both small and large billon dollar multi-national businesses to success. He has experience as a professional speaker and author on technical and financial topics, and has spoken at major international shows such as CES in Las Vegas.

Rich’s role at SCT is to manage fundraising activities, oversee operations, and interface with investors to insure company growth.

Rich obtained his Engineering Degree from the University of California at Berkeley, his MBA from Santa Clara University, and additional Executive Education from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.