Board of Directors

Wenbin Jiang, Ph.D. has served as Cytek’s Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board since December 2014. Dr. Jiang is also a co-founder of the company. In 1998, Dr. Jiang co-founded E2O Communications, Inc., a fiber optic subsystems manufacturing company, which was acquired by JDS Uniphase Corporation in 2004. Dr. Jiang is an inventor of 100 U.S. patents and an author of five book chapters and over 50 peer-reviewed technical papers. Dr. Jiang holds a B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Optics & Laser Physics from Fudan University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jack Ball has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2018. Mr. Ball also serves as the President of Tyball Associates LLC and serves on the board of directors of Carterra, Inc., a biotechnology company, and KromaTiD, Inc., a biotechnology company. From May 2021 to June 2023, Mr. Ball served on the board of directors of NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc., a biotechnology company. From October 2010 to March 2021, Mr. Ball served on the board of directors of Swift Biosciences Inc., a biotechnology company. From September 2013 to December 2019, Mr. Ball served as Chief Executive Officer and a board member at Solulink Inc., a biotechnology company. From February 2006 to July 2011, Mr. Ball was Chief Commercial Officer at Accuri Cytometers, Inc., a medical instruments company, which was sold to Becton Dickinson in March 2011. Prior to that, Mr. Ball was Chief Executive Officer at Amnis Corporation, a biotechnology company, Chief Commercial Officer at Molecular Probes, Inc., a biotechnology company, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Orchid Biosciences, a DNA testing services biotechnology company, and President for North America at Amersham Biosciences Corp., a healthcare company.

Mr. Ball holds a B.S. in Agriculture from the University of Georgia.

Gisele Dion has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2021. Since September 2022, Ms. Dion also serves on the board of directors of Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc., a pharmaceutical company. Ms. Dion was the Senior Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer of Takeda Pharmaceutical Ltd., a pharmaceutical company, from March 2021 to June 2021. Prior to that, she served as the Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller at Takeda Pharmaceutical Ltd. from January 2019 to March 2021. From January 2016 to January 2019, Ms. Dion was the Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller at Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC, a biopharmaceutical company. From 2007 to January 2016, she served as Corporate Controller and Senior Director of Technical Accounting of Biogen Inc., a biotechnology company.

Ms. Dion holds a B.S. in Accounting and Management Information Systems from Fairfield University.

Don Hardison has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2022. From 2017 to February 2021, Mr. Hardison served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and board member of Biotheranostics, Inc., a privately-held molecular oncology diagnostics company acquired by Hologic, Inc. in February 2021. From 2010 to 2016, Mr. Hardison served as President, Chief Executive Officer and board member of Good Start Genetics, Inc., a privately-held molecular diagnostics/information company. From 2007 to 2009, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), a publicly-traded healthcare diagnostics company, and served as President, Chief Executive Officer and board member of Exact Sciences Corporation, a publicly-traded biotechnology company, from 2000 to 2007.

Mr. Hardison currently also serves on the board of directors of BioPorto Diagnostics A/S, a publicly-traded medical technology company, and MDX Health SA, a publicly-traded molecular oncology company, since 2021. He served on the board of directors of HTG Molecular Diagnostics, a publicly-traded biotechnology company, from May 2016 to July 2023. Mr. Hardison also serves on the board of directors of and as an advisor to privately-held healthcare companies from time to time.

Mr. Hardison holds an A.B. degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Vera Imper, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2021. Dr. Imper served as Vice President and Head, Business Development of Roche Molecular Solutions from January 2018 to November 2021. Dr. Imper previously served as Vice President, Worldwide Business Development of Becton Dickinson Biosciences from May 2009 to October 2017.

Dr. Imper holds a B.S. in Pharmacy and Biochemistry, an M.S. in Physical and Organic Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Bioinorganic Chemistry from University of Zagreb.

Deborah Neff has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2022. Since 2020, Ms. Neff has served as the Principal of DJN Consulting, LLC, an executive management, business strategy and operations consulting company. Prior to that, from 2017 to 2020, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Evanostics LLC, an early-stage, private biotechnology company. From 2014 to 2016, she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Complete Genomics Inc., a business unit of BGI-Shenzhen, a publicly-traded genomic sequencing and proteomic services company. From 2006 to 2013, she served as the Chief Executive Officer at Pathwork Diagnostics Inc., a privately-held molecular diagnostics company, and from 2003 to 2006, she served as the Chief Executive Officer at Predicant Biosciences, formerly a private biotechnology company. Ms. Neff also served as President of BD Biosciences, Inc., a global business segment of Becton Dickinson, from 1995 to 2003.

Since October 2021, Ms. Neff has served as a director on the board of Atomo Diagnostics Limited, an Australian publicly-listed rapid diagnostics company, and served on the board of directors of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. from 2011 to 2017. She also serves on the board of directors of Guide Dogs for the Blind and on the advisory boards of privately funded start-up companies Wainamics, Inc. and Partillion Bioscience Inc.

Ms. Neff holds a B.S. degree in Physiology from the University of California, Davis and completed graduate training and licensure in clinical laboratory science. She has attended executive business programs in finance, marketing and general management at Wharton, Stanford and Harvard Business Schools.

Ming Yan, Ph.D. has served as the Chief Technology Officer and a member of the Cytek Board since 2015. Dr. Yan is also a co-founder of the company. Dr. Yan has over 20 years of experience in research and development. Prior to joining our company, Dr. Yan held research and development positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, a research and development division of AT&T Communications, a telecommunications company, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, a federal research facility, and BD Biosciences, a biotechnology company. Dr. Yan has published several research papers relating to laser spectroscopy and cell analysis in top peer-reviewed journals. He has over a dozen patents and pending patent applications for his innovations. Dr. Yan holds a B.S. in Physics from Fudan University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York.