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People in the News: Louis Culot

Sep 06, 2014
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BioData has hired Louis Culot as its new CEO.

Prior to joining the company, Culot was the VP of marketing and business development at BioDiscovery, a developer of genomics software for life science research and clinical applications. He also worked for CambridgeSoft holding multiple roles including VP of enterprise applications and executive director of research informatics.

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