Laurence Rea —  Senior Vice President of Operations

Mr. Rea brings to Great Basin more than 20 years of engineering and manufacturing experience, of which eight years were spent managing a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facility for BioStar, an Inverness Medical Innovations Inc. company (formerly Thermo Electron), with revenues that exceeded $30 million during Rea’s tenure. As general manager at BioStar, Rea oversaw the pre-clinical and clinical trials at hospitals and clinics, including institutional review board (IRB) approvals from multiple organizations; and was responsible for FDA regulatory requirements– seeing multiple diagnostic products through the 510K approval process–and the overall performance of the business unit. Rea holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.

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