The company appoints Mr. Olex vice president, system development.

RainDance Technologies, a provider of innovative microdroplet based solutions for human health and disease research, announced the appointment of Michael B. Olex as vice president, system development, effective immediately.

"As RainDance introduces its exciting RainStorm droplet based technology to market, Mr. Olex will play a key leadership role in designing, developing, and integrating complete systems for commercialisation, including instrumentation, consumables, and reagents," said Chris McNary, president and chief executive officer, RainDance Technologies. "He will immediately focus on our Sequence Enrichment application for targeted genomic sequencing that will be launched later this year. With his deep experience in life sciences management, Mr. Olex will establish productive, efficient product transfer procedures from engineering to manufacturing, including the development of manufacturing processes," McNary said.

Mr. Olex joins RainDance from BioTrove, where he was vice president, manufacturing, and established the company's OpenArray consumable and instrumentation manufacturing departments. He also served as senior vice president at U.S. Genomics; president of International Light; director, business projects at Applied Biosystems; and vice president of manufacturing at PerSeptive Biosystems. Mr. Olex holds a master of business administration degree from Case Western Reserve University, a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Cleveland State University, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Detroit.