Executive Team

Ray W. Swanson
President & Chief Executive Officer

Arthur Bergens
Chief Financial & Administration  Officer

John Davis
Vice President, Business Development

Pharmacy Product Verification

Jim Tusa, Ph.D.
Vice President, Product Development

Management Team  

Leadership Bios

Ray W. Swanson
President & CEO

Arthur Bergens
Chief Financial & Administration Officer

Arthur Bergens became CFO of Centice in January 2006 and brings over twenty years of experience in a wide range of financial leadership positions. Prior to Centice, Mr. Bergens served as CFO for Unitive, Inc, a leader in advanced wafer packaging solutions for the semiconductor industry, which was acquired in August 2004 by Amkor Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMKR), a publicly held company and one of the world’s leading providers of contract semiconductor manufacturing, assembly, and test services. At Amkor, Mr. Bergens held the title of Vice President - Finance and Administration where he was responsible for financial leadership of Amkor's new Wafer Level Packaging Business Unit. Prior to Unitive, Mr. Bergens was Vice President and CFO for the Americas Region at Modus Media International, Inc, a global provider of supply chain management solutions to the high technology industry with annual revenues of some $600 million.  Mr. Bergens has served as CFO for TANO Automation, Inc., which develops, engineers and manufactures microprocessor-based control systems for the marine, oil, gas, water and wastewater industries. Mr. Bergens was also held the position of manager in the New Orleans office of Ernst & Young.  Bergens holds a MBA from Campbell University, a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of New Orleans, and is a licensed certified public accountant in both Louisiana and North Carolina.

 John Davis
Vice President, Business Development

Pharmacy Product Verification

John Davis brings over 18 years of senior-level sales and marketing experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare arenas. Prior to joining Centice, Davis was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Innovation, a leader in the pharmacy automation and workflow arena.  At Innovation, Davis was considered a pharmacy domain expert due to all of his years of experience with pharmacy operations and while there built a successful international sales force that spanned all the primary pharmacy market segments. Davis was Director of Sales, Pharmaceutical Distribution and Regional Sales Manager for Cardinal Health’s Atlantic region.  During his tenure at Cardinal Health, Davis was continually recognized for his strong leadership skills and for his region’s leading sales growth and sales revenue. Davis has also held senior-level sales positions with McKesson HBOC and FoxMeyer Corporation. Davis holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

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 Jim Tusa, Ph.D.
Vice President, Product Development

Jim Tusa has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from U.Chicago and over 26 years of experience in product development leading the commercialization of medical diagnostic systems at several successful start-ups which were acquired by large companies such as 3M, Roche Diagnostics and Idexx.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Prasant Potuluri, Ph. D.

Prasant Potuluri is the Chief Technology Officer at Centice Corporation. In his role as the CTO, Potuluri identifies and evaluates new technology, provides strategic vision and direction to the engineering group. He has pursued several federal grants for Centice and has won close to $1.4 million in research funds. He also strategically manages the Intellectual portfolio of the company. Prior to co-founding Centice in 2004, he has been a graduate research assistant at Duke University and has been developing the company’s core computational sensor technology platform. His PhD thesis titled, “Multiplexed Optical Sensors for Reference Structure Tomography and Compressive Spectroscopy” is the first demonstration of compressive sampling, a revolutionary concept. In 2004, Potuluri has been awarded John T. Chambers Fellow for demonstrating excellence in classroom activities, research activities and for participation in Duke Activities. Potuluri played a critical role in winning the grand prize at the Duke Startup Challenge. Potuluri obtained a PhD from Duke University, a Masters degree from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and a Bachelors degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Potuluri is a member of the Optical Society of America, SPIE and Sigma-Xi. He has founded Duke Chapter of the Optical Society of America and held the office of the President for the chapter during 2003-2004.

Ralph Greco
Vice President, Manufacturing

Ralph Greco joined Centice on June 1st, 2006 as VP of Manufacturing.  Greco is responsible for manufacturing the company’s sensor products as well as managing safety, quality, procurement and vendor outsourcing in conjunction with manufacturing activities.  Greco brings more than 40 years of experience in manufacturing, engineering and operations to Centice having held leadership roles in production, quality, facilities and business process improvements.  Prior to joining Centice, Greco was at ModusLink, a global provider of supply chain management services.  As Director of Operations, he was responsible for all supply chain operations including project management, manufacturing assembly, process engineering, quality assurance, fulfillment, distribution and facilities management.   Before ModusLink, Greco was with IBM, US Assemblies, and Ambra Computer Corporation in a variety of manufacturing, engineering and product management roles. Throughout his career, Greco has managed various manufacturing, quality, education, and product administration departments including ten years in manufacturing engineering.  He also was responsible for assembly outsourcing of personal computer systems, coordinating product engineering and contract manufacturing projects, as well as management of customer service organizations. 

Christal Anderson, PHR
Human Resources Manager

Christal Anderson joined Centice in October 2006 as the Human Resources Manager. Anderson brings more than 13 years of HR experience in the pharmaceutical, high technology, and healthcare industries. Previously, Anderson managed the HR function at Cirrus Pharmaceuticals, a Contract Research Organization in Research Triangle Park, whose recruiting efforts made Cirrus one of the fastest growing CRO’s in the Triangle area. Previously, Anderson held HR Generalist positions of increasing responsibility at Biovail Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded pharmaceutical focused on drug-delivery technologies, now based in Bridgewater, NJ. Prior to Biovail, Anderson worked at Cisco Systems in the Human Resources department in RTP. Anderson holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Human Resources Management from Western Governors University in Utah.

David Brady, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist, Technical Advisor

David Brady, co-founder of Centice, serves as Chief Scientist in addition to his position as the Addy Family Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering at Duke University. Professor Brady holds a B.A. in physics and mathematics from Macalester College and M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign prior to moving to Duke in 2001. Professor Brady leads the Duke Integrated Sensing and Processing (www.disp.duke.edu), which develops computational optical sensors for biomedical and national security applications. DISP is supported by grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institutes of Health and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Current programs focus on long wave infrared imaging and tracking systems and near infrared tissue spectroscopy. Professor Brady is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and was a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow from 1990 through 1995.