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Mr. Connor's professional experience is grounded in 12 years of successful sales and senior management experience with Hewlett-Packard's Analytical Systems Group (now Agilent Technologies) where he was responsible for their global lab automation systems business. Since Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Connor served as the Chairman and CEO of a several successful investor-backed software, life-science technology and information technology companies such as EMAX Solution Partners where he led its turn-around and capitalization from a challenged venture capital backed start-up into a successful enterprise software and e-commerce solution provider to the life-science research marketplace and its subsequent acquisition by a public company; ArtusLabs, where as Chairman Mr. Connor was instrumental to its development and acquisition by PerkinElmer; and Synthematix, where as founding outside Director Mr. Connor led its acquisition by a public company.

Prior to his tenure with GenPro, Mr. Connor was the Founding Chairman and Managing Director of The Longwood Group, an executive advisory consulting company to the Boards, CEOs and Executive teams of small-to-mid-size software, information technology and life science measurement and computation companies needing to better align their strategy and operational execution to accelerate growth, and to attract capital and acquirers to provide liquidity for investors. Over five years, he was instrumental in guiding five companies through a successful business transformation resulting in acquisitions by public companies. Concurrent with the Longwood Group, he served on an Advisory Board to the University of Delaware to promote entrepreneurism throughout the University’s faculty, aluminae, students and stakeholders; and served as Senior Advisor to Focus Investment Bank, a rapidly growing global M&A advisory firm to emerging growth and middle-market businesses.

Previously, in addition to his tenures at HP and EMAX, Mr. Connor was CEO of Panacya, a web and mobile application infrastructure management software company that was the precursor to BoxTone which was acquired by a public company; and he was Co-Founder and EVP Sales and Marketing for Automated Compliance Systems, a laboratory information management systems (LIMS) software company acquired by Beckman. Mr. Connor is a graduate of the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio with a BA in Biology and earned his MBA at Rutgers University.