Board of Directors

Andy Arno

Chairman of the Board

Andy Arno joined our Board of Directors in June 2015 and was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors in May 2022. Mr. Arno has 30 years of experience handling a wide range of corporate and financial matters, including work as an investment banker and strategic advisor to emerging growth companies. Since October 2023, he has served as the Managing Member of Unterberg Legacy Capital, LLC. He was previously Vice Chairman of Special Equities Group, LLC, a privately held investment banking firm affiliated with Dawson James Securities Inc., and previously with Bradley Woods & Co. Ltd., and he held that role from June 2019 to March 2023. Prior to joining Special Equities Group, LLC, Mr. Arno served as Vice Chairman at Chardan Capital Markets, LLC, from July 2015 to June 2019. From June 2013 until July 2015, Mr. Arno served as Managing Director of Emerging Growth Equities, an investment bank, and Vice President of Sabr, Inc., a family investment group. He was previously President of LOMUSA Limited, an investment banking firm. From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Arno served as Vice Chairman and Chief Marketing Officer of Unterberg Capital, LLC, an investment advisory firm that he co-founded. He was also Vice Chairman and Head of Equity Capital Markets of Merriman Capital LLC, an investment banking firm, and served on the board of the parent company, Merriman Holdings, Inc. Mr. Arno currently serves on the boards of directors of Smith Micro Software, Inc. and Independa Inc., both software companies, and Comhear Inc., an audio technology R&D company. Mr. Arno previously served as a director of Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc. from August 2014 until it was acquired by Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (“Lineage”) in March 2019. Mr. Arno received a BS degree from George Washington University.

Josh Riggs

Josh Riggs joined our Board of Directors and serves as our President and Chief Executive Officer since February 2023. Josh previously served as our Interim Chief Executive Officer since December 2022, as General Manager, Transplant from July 2022 to December 2022, and as Senior Director Business Development from August 2020 to September 2022. From January 2015 to August 2020, Josh was the founder and principal of Intelliger Consulting, an organization devoted to consumer driven healthcare, and from January 2016 to July 2020, he was a principal at Bethesda Group, LLC, a boutique consulting group focused on helping small and mid-stage diagnostic companies and investment groups move emerging diagnostic content and platforms to market.

Andrew J. Last

Andrew J. Last joined our Board of Directors in December 2015. Dr. Last shares with our Board his many years of senior management experience commercializing products internationally in the genomics and life-sciences industries. Since 2023, Dr. Last has served on the Board of CellChorus Inc., a technology company that applies artificial intelligence to visually evaluate the performance of immune cells over time. Since 2019, Dr. Last has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing a broad range of innovative products for the life science research and clinical diagnostic markets. From December 2017 to April 2019, Dr. Last previously served as Chief Commercial Officer at Berkeley Lights Inc., a digital cell biology company focused on enabling and accelerating the rapid development and commercialization of biotherapeutics and other cell-based products, and as Chief Operating Officer of Intrexon Corporation, a company using synthetic biology to focus on programming biological systems to alleviate disease, remediate environmental challenges, and provide sustainable food and industrial chemicals from August 2016 to December 2017. From 2010 to 2016, Dr. Last was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Affymetrix, a biotechnology company. Before joining Affymetrix, Dr. Last served as Vice President, Global and Strategic Marketing of BD Biosciences and as General Manager of Pharmingen from 2004 to 2010. From 2002 to 2004, Dr. Last held management positions at Applied Biosystems, Inc., including as Vice President and General Manager from 2003 to 2004 and Vice President of Marketing 2002 to 2003. Earlier in his career, he served in a variety of management positions at other companies, including Incyte Genomics and Monsanto. Dr. Last holds PhD and MS degrees with specialization in Agrochemical Chemicals and Bio-Aeronautics, respectively, from Cranfield University, and a BS degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.

Louis E. Silverman

Louis E. Silverman was appointed as a member of the Board of Directors in December 2022 and as Lead Independent Director in February 2023. Since February 2014, Mr. Silverman has served as the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of privately held Hicuity Health, Inc. (formerly known as Advanced ICU Care, Inc.), a health care services company providing remote patient monitoring services to hospitals. From June 2012 through February 2014, Mr. Silverman served as a consultant and board advisor for private equity investors and others regarding health care technology and health care technology service companies, and health care services portfolio investments. From September 2009 through June 2012, Mr. Silverman was Chief Executive Officer of Marina Medical Billing Services, Inc., a revenue cycle management company serving ER physicians nationally. From September 2008 through August 2009, Mr. Silverman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Qualcomm-backed health care start-up LifeComm. From August 2000 through August 2008, Mr. Silverman served as the President and Chief Executive officer of Quality Systems, Inc., a publicly traded developer of medical and dental practice management and patient records software. From 1993 through 2000, he served in multiple positions, including Chief Operations Officer of CorVel Corporation, a publicly traded national managed care services/technology company. Mr. Silverman serves and has served as a board member for a variety of public, private, for profit and not for profit health care organizations. Public company board experience includes Questcor (NASDAQ:QCOR) and Staar Surgical (NASDAQ:STAA). Mr. Silverman earned a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.