Executive Vice President, Product Development and Operations
Michael P. McKenna, Ph.D. has served as Quantum-Si’s Executive Vice President, Product Development and Operations since May 2022, and as Quantum-Si’s President and Chief Operating Officer since December 2014 to May 2022.Prior to joining Quantum-Si, Dr. McKenna served as Vice President, R&D at Life Technologies Corporation, a global biotechnology company, from August 2011 to July 2014, and as a consultant to Life Technologies from February 2011 to August 2011.
Prior to that, Dr. McKenna served as Chief Scientific Officer of Tethys Bioscience, Inc., a diagnostics company, from August 2004 to February 2011, and as Vice President of Curagen Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, from 1993 to 2003. Dr. McKenna received his B.S. in molecular biology and German from Carnegie Mellon University and his Ph.D. in biology from Yale University.