Provista is Bioscience Company of the Year
The Provista Management Team
William Gartner, President & CEO
Mr. Gartner has 20 issued patents and more than 35 years’ experience in the environmental and medical fields, with an extensive history of product development, operational oversight, corporate acquisitions and technology transfer. He founded Gartner Research & Development Company, which offered contract product development services and licenses of its own patented products. As a branch of Gartner R&D, he created a water and wastewater testing laboratory, which successfully grew into a national multimillion-dollar network of environmental labs.
Mr. Gartner sold Gartner R&D to the Ocean Group, which later became the largest network of labs in the United States. He then acquired a small laboratory in Phoenix, which he grew to five locations in four states with nearly 200 employees and a full-scale radiochemistry lab. Mr. Gartner's patents range from water purification units to a
self-test for Alzheimer's disease.
Robert V. Woods, President, Provista Diagnostics
Mr. Woods (Arizona State University, B.S. Chemistry) has more than 27 years of hands-on operational and management experience in laboratory operations, management and quality assurance. He served as vice president of laboratory operations for Analytical Technologies, Inc. and vice president of Quality Assurance for Acculabs Inc.
Mr. Woods also served as president of Precision Analytical Laboratories, where he doubled revenues and created the largest environmental testing laboratory in Arizona before it was sold to Severn Trent Laboratories, Inc., the world’s largest environmental testing laboratory network.
Donald F. Weber, VP of Strategic Alliances
Mr. Weber (Northern Illinois University, B.S. Biological Sciences; MBA graduate studies at NIU) has more than 30 years’ experience in laboratory operations and management, business management (sales, marketing, contracts and acquisitions), licensing and financial services.
He served as vice president of business development for Analytical Technologies, Inc. and president and CEO of Transwest Geochem, Inc. prior to founding DFW Consultants in 1997. DFW Consultants was a management-consulting firm dedicated to providing outsourced business development, sales, management, laboratory services support and laboratory QA/QC data review.
Randall Grimes, VP of Operations
Mr. Grimes (University of Arizona College of Engineering, B.S. Material Sciences & Engineering; University of Michigan Business School, M.B.A.) has more than 15 years of marketing, business development, financial and R&D experience in technology/life science-based start-up companies.
He founded The Randall Group in 2001 to assist small- to medium-sized technology companies raise funds using state and federal competitive grants. Selected to manage more than 20 projects ranging in value from $70,000 to $5,000,000 within the medical device, biotechnology, communications, and MEMS industries, Mr. Grimes raised more than $10 million.