Robert Wicke

Biography

Robert joined ForteBio in 2007 from Molecular Devices Corporation, where he was Vice President of Product Development, managing over 80 engineers. He was on the executive team there that helped the $615 million acquisition by MDS. Previously he was at Axon Instruments, Inc. as Vice President of Engineering, where he was part of the $170 million acquisition by Molecular Devices. In addition, Robert was a founding member of Anyware Fast, Inc., working closely with Sun Microsystems on creating the original Java platform and the XIL imaging suite. He has more than 20 years of professional software engineering experience, product development and over 10 years of executive business management in instrumentation companies; he has helped release over a dozen major successful products, including the Genepix microarray scanner, Axoclamp electrophysiology amplifiers and pClamp software, Metamorph for cellular imaging, Acuity for bioinformatics, and the FLIPR Tetra for fluorescence screening. Robert received a BA in Computer and Information Sciences and a BA in Mathematics from Drew University, NJ and an MS in Computer and Information Sciences, specializing in 3D mathematical visualization techniques from the University of Oregon.

Research Interest

Business, Management, Finance, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Device