VDx Management

Monte B. Tobin - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Monte B. Tobin served as chief executive officer of the Corporation for Advanced Applications since 1996. CAA brings otherwise unrelated products to market, each embodying a specific technology for which its owners believe a market exists (e.g. a glucose testing product, a test for canine disorders and a fire retardant for use on mattresses and other fabrics). Our original diagnostic products were among those marketed by CAA through its then subsidiary, VDx. Mr. Tobin acquired VDx from CAA in 2004. Mr. Tobin served in the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1970. During this period he also attended the University of Maryland extension in Germany for two years where he studied sales and marketing.

Peter Nash, Ph.D. - Chief Science Officer
Peter Nash, Ph.D. originally studied to become a medical doctor and expected to treat human patients. After obtaining his Ph.D. in microbiology, he taught for 20 years at the Indiana School of Medicine, University of Minnesota and Minnesota State University, Mankato - covering 13 areas of medicine, from parasitology to immunology to virology. In 1984, Nash joined BSI, an emerging medical company (now called Surmodics) specializing in human diagnostics. While with BSI, Dr. Nash worked to develop tests for strep, whooping cough, salmonella, toxins and other diagnostics. In the late 1980s, Dr. Nash developed quick swab tests to detect Listeria in feedlots and E. coli in processing plants. During the first Gulf War, he worked on anthrax tests until government funding dissipated. Along with two other BSI founders Dr. Nash spun off Camas Inc. in 1987. From the University Technical Center in Minneapolis, they expanded their work in rapid human diagnostics to agriculture — researching Campylobacter, Pasteurella and E. coli 0157:H7 with federal funding. Under the direction of Dr. Nash, Camas did work for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S.D.A. After nearly three decades of microbial study, Dr. Nash designed all-natural cattle feed additives to inhibit a dangerous E. coli 1057:H7 strain and improve feed efficiency with "impressive results." Dr. Nash holds three patents as a result of his work.