Board of Directors

The Sionex Board of Directors brings together individuals who have a proven track record with extensive operational experience to guide and support Sionex in achieving its vision of becoming a world leader in developing and manufacturing miniaturized chemical and biological detection devices.

Paul Levine , General Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures - Prior to joining Morgenthaler in 1997 as a venture partner Paul served as the founding CEO of Atria Software, a Morgenthaler portfolio company that developed, distributed, and supported a high-end management system for large software development teams. Paul took Atria public in 1994, and merged it with Pure Software in 1996. Through most of the 1980s he held senior technical positions at Apollo Computer, where he produced networked workstation systems. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. He currently serves on the boards of two other Morgenthaler portfolio companies: Fiber Optics Network Systems and StarGen.

Joshua Ruch, Managing General Partner, Rho Ventures - Joshua co-founded Rho in 1981. Previously he was an investment banker for six years at Salomon Brothers and Bache Halsey Stuart in New York. He received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. His current and recent board seats include Applied Science Fiction, Diacrin, Diversa, Human Genome Sciences, 3-D Pharmaceuticals, TechSmart and Yantra.

Alain Hanover, Managing Director and CEO, Navigator Technology Ventures - Alain has over 30 years of experience in venture capital, executive management and product development. He was co-founder and CEO at Viewlogic and InCert Software, as well as being an early stage investor or advisor in over 25 private companies. He co-founded CommonAngels, Boston's leading Angel Investor group. He currently serves on the following corporate boards: Actuality Systems, Applix, Bitpipe, CommonAngels, Polychromix, Sand Video and Sionex. Hanover holds B.S. degrees from MIT; an M.S. from Harvard and an OPM program degree from Harvard Business School.

Lawrence A. Kaufman,

Larry was a founder and former CEO of Sionex. Larry has significant experience in founding and co-founding leading technology-based start-up companies. He was a founder and CEO of Digital Graphics, Inc. and has been President of a number of successful technology-based start-up companies over the last ten years, including Psychemedics Corporation and Tropix, Inc. He played principal roles in Separation Technologies, Inc., OutOfOffice, Inc., VentureRound Group LLC and OTTER, Inc. Before entering his successful entrepreneurial career he played a significant role at Polaroid Corporation. Larry holds a B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Tufts University and an Executive M.B.A from Yale University.