Speaker Profile

Steve Crouse

Biography

Steve Crouse is the Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for all commercial operations at Vortex Biosciences including sales, marketing and support. Steve has >15 years of experience leading marketing and sales organizations with his most recent experience as the SVP of Sales and Marketing at Freeslate, Inc. Steve helped transition the Freeslate business model from a custom automation business to a successful life science product business leading to an acquisition by Unchained Labs. Prior to joining Freeslate, Steve held several marketing, sales, and R&D leadership roles with Bio-Rad Laboratories and Life Technologies (now ThermoFisher). In these roles he led strategic planning and product development teams, was responsible for OEM and Out-licensing sales, and ran operations for a new R&D Center in Shanghai, China. He has a MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a M.S. in Biochemistry from Georgetown University.

Presentation Title and Company Description

Liquid Biopsy Showcase: TBA
Vortex Biosciences is an oncology diagnostics company that integrates cancer biology, microfluidic engineering and informatics to deliver better tools for isolating and characterizing circulating tumor cells (CTCs). Vortex’s first product, the VTX-1 Liquid Biopsy System, automates the label free isolation and collection of viable CTCs directly from whole blood.