Christian LaPointe, PhD
Christian LaPointe, PhD has served as Quantum-Si’s General Counsel since November 2020. Prior to joining Quantum-Si, Dr. LaPointe served as General Counsel at ArcherDX, Inc., a genomics company, from January 2015 to August 2019, and as Deputy General Counsel at ArcherDX from August 2019 to October 2020. Dr. LaPointe also served as General Counsel to Celsee, Inc., a single cell analysis solutions provider, from August 2019 to June 2020.
Previously, Dr. LaPointe was General Counsel at Thrive Bioscience, Inc., a cell culture instruments and software company, from August 2014 to July 2019, General Counsel of the Enzymatics enzyme solutions unit of QIAGEN N.V., from March 2013 to January 2015, General Counsel of Axios Biosciences, LLC, an oncology drug discovery company, from December 2012 to December 2014, and a litigation attorney at the law firm Sherin and Lodgen LLP from April 2012 to March 2013. Dr. LaPointe received his B.S. in biochemistry from the University of New Hampshire, his PhD in biochemistry from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School.