About Us: Management Team

Petra B. Krauledat, Ph.D
Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Krauledat has a long career in running successful startups and managing the development, manufacture, and launch of breakthrough products for international diagnostics companies. An expert in viral diagnostics, Ms. Krauledat introduced the first commercial HIV test while employed with Behringwerke in Germany. She also managed the development of the first hepatitis C assay for the Ortho Diagnostics/Chiron joint venture. Together with Mr. Hansen, she holds two patents for optically resonant colloidal metal labels in biochemical assays.

Dr. Krauledat has served as president of three successful start-up companies: Sienna Biotech, Inc., Union Biometrica Technologies, and Union Biometrica, Inc. Sienna Biotech was responsible for the earliest FDA-approved multiplexed immunoassay system. Among its other achievements, Union Biometrica Technologies (UBT) developed the prototype platform and assays, which are the basis for the PointCARE™ system- PointCare Technologies' flagship product. Union Biometrica Inc., a UBT spin-off, introduced the COPAS™ product line, the world's first model organism research flow cytometers. Union Biometrica built an international market and operated from two locations, one in the United States and the other in Belgium. The company was sold in 2001 for $17.5 million.

W. Peter Hansen, Ph.D
Chief Science Officer

Dr. Hansen's work at PointCare has been vital in making flow cytometry available for point of treatment applications. Dr. Hansen is a prolific commercial inventor in the field of biomedical analysis. His inventions are widely incorporated in significant products for flow cytometry, immunoassay, and nucleic acid detection. He co-invented the fundamental flow cytometry methods for T-lymphocyte subset analysis (Johnson and Johnson), the first commercial multiplexed immunoassay system in flow cytometry (Sienna Biotech, now DiaSoren), the first homogeneous nucleic acid detection system (Johnson and Johnson), and the first flow sorter for multi-cellular organisms (Union Biometrica, now part of Harvard Biosciences).

Invention Highlights:

• First T-lymphocyte subset analysis (1980). Formed the immunohematology basis for the Spectrum III™ and Cytofluorograf™ systems (Johnson and Johnson; Becton Dickinson). This invention enabled modern whole blood immunohematology.
• First multiplexed flow-based immunoassay (1993) for Copalis™, an FDA-approved multiplexed system for infectious disease (Sienna Biotech, now DiaSoren).
• First low-cost, robust, easy-to-use hematology flow cytometer (1997). Incorporated in LaserCyte™, a complete light scatter-based hematology analyzer for red cell parameters, and platelet, four part differential and reticulocyte counts (IDEXX).
• First flow cytometer to analyze and sort small model organisms (nematodes, fruit fly larvae, and zebrafish embryos). Forms the basis for the COPAS™ sorter (Union Biometrica, now Harvard Biosciences).

Dr. Hansen has also held research and teaching positions at Northeastern University and MIT in biomedical optics and biomedical engineering. He has a Ph.D. in Biophysics and an MS in Engineering from Northeastern University, and a BS in Physics from Harvard.

Peter “Kassey” E. Kalutkiewicz
President

Mr. Kalutkiewicz has a successful track record of meeting aggressive development timetables and satisfying customer demands for product robustness and reliability. He has more than 20 years experience in helping lead the design, development and service of flow cytometers and other biomedical instrumentation systems from the concept stage into the market for Ortho Diagnostics Instruments (Johnson & Johnson), NOVA Biomedical, and Union Biometrica, Inc. (Harvard Biosciences).

Mr. Kalutkiewicz has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University.

Maurice “Moe” N. Doire
Chief Operations Officer

Mr. Doire is a Medical Device professional employed in the industry since 1988 and has held positions in Engineering, Quality and Regulatory management, with specific concentration in the areas of Engineering Management, Product Development, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Quality Engineering.

Mr. Doire has worked in the United States and Mexico, is a co-inventor, and has experience with medical disposables, surgical kit manufacturing, Ethylene Oxide (ETO) sterilization, surgical instruments and needles, and reagents and medical instrumentation used in Cytology and Hematology applications.

A senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and long term member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Mr. Doire is a Certified Quality Engineer and Registered Medical Device Auditor, holds several certifications, and has a successful track record of managing/participating in FDA inspection activities, implementing Quality Systems for the regulated industry and attaining ISO Certification of these systems in the United States, Mexico, and France.

Most recently, in March of 2007, he led PointCare to successful implementation of a Quality System certified to ISO 13485:2003.

Robert J. “Bobby” Feigler
Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing

Mr. Feigler is a proven executive and entrepreneur who has successfully led commercial organizations in global multinational corporations and early stage companies alike.  He brings 17 years of sales, marketing and business development leadership experience to PointCare.

Most recently, Mr. Feigler was an executive with Thermo Fisher Scientific responsible for the global sales and business development of one of their distribution divisions.  Mr. Feigler co-founded SciQuest, Inc., a technology and software solutions company that provides integrated e-commerce and research asset management solutions for research enterprises and their supply chain partners worldwide.  The company successfully executed an Initial Public Offering in 1999, and today is the leading provider of e-procurement solutions for the Life Sciences Industry.  Mr. Feigler began his career with Baxter Healthcare’s Scientific Product’s Division which was subsequently acquired by VWR International.  Mr. Feigler served in the U.S. Army as an Infantry Officer, and received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Loyola University.