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Date:5/18/2009

Perkin Elmer and Fluidigm. While at Fluidigm, during which time he served as vice president of research and development and chief technology officer, Dr. McBride is credited with leading the commercialization of the TOPAZ(R) System, the company's first product line and the world's first chip-based product for structural biology. Previously, Dr. McBride oversaw the marketing and scientific collaboration between Perkin Elmer and Applied Biosystems prior to the merger of the two companies. During this period, he founded and led the companies' effort to commercialize the world's first real-time PCR system. As an author, Dr. McBride is credited with more than 25 journal publications, six issued U.S. patents and numerous U.S. patent applications.

Prior to her promotion, Mona Chadha served as WaferGen's vice president of marketing and business development. Since joining the company in 2006, Ms. Chadha has played an important role in developing and executing the company's broad business strategy, including product definition, market development, commercialization plans for the SmartChip Real Time PCR System and fundraising activities. In overseeing the development of the SmartChip platform, Ms. Chadha has helped sign research collaborations with scientists at a number of the country's most prestigious research institutions, including University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center.

About WaferGen

WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. is a leader in the development, manufacture and sale of state-of-the-art systems for genetic analysis for the life science and pharmaceutical industries. The company is actively developing its SmartChip(TM) product for the gene expression and genotyping markets. SmartChip is being developed as the first whole genome, high throughput gene expression real-time PCR platfor
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