Cobalt Biofuels Adds Biotech Leader as new Chief Operating Officer
David DeNola, former Vice President of Operations for Xenogen joins Cobalt Biofuels as COO
Mountain View, CA - Cobalt Biofuels introduced David DeNola, the former Vice President of Operations for biotech leader Xenogen, at the company's Chief Operating Officer. The search was conducted by Taylor Winfield, Inc.
Mr. DeNola has over 25 years of biotech and life sciences experience in preparing start-ups for rapid growth in global markets. As a senior executive in operations and product development, he has served with a number of companies in both the U.S. and Israel. Recently, he served as VP of Operations at Xenogen Corporation. Prior to Xenogen, Mr. DeNola served for five years as VP of Operations at Ciphergen Biosystems, a proteomics company. Before returning to the U.S. from Israel in 2000, he was Chief Operating Officer for Gamida-Cell, a stem cell company, and CBD Technologies, a biotech platform technology company.
During his time in Israel, David spent over ten years developing, building, and operating systems for mammalian cell culture microfiltration and virus free plant cell fermentation and production. David has a MA in Business Administration from Technion, Israel and received his BA in University of California, Berkeley in Genetics, Biological Anthropology in 1972.
About Cobalt Biofuels
Cobalt Biofuels is leading the transportation industry to cleaner, more efficient renewable fuels. By applying life science and reaction management technology to biofuel production, Cobalt is pioneering efficiency advances that lead to more cost-effective, less polluting, and environmentally sustainable transportation fuels. Investors include VantagePoint Venture Partners, Pinnacle Ventures, Burrill & Co.
About Taylor Winfield, Inc.
Established in 1987, Taylor Winfield has been instrumental in building billions $$ in market value within the high technology industry, via retained executive search and strategic business development. Through key relationships with premier venture capital firms, maturing client companies, and their executive network of visionary industry leaders, Taylor Winfield has conducted searches to create hundreds of high tech core management teams in enterprise software (applications & infrastructure), wireless, networking, computer hardware, services, and semiconductors. For more information, please visit www.taylorwinfield.com.
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