Richard Resnick

Vice President Software and Professional Services at GenomeQuest, Inc.

Greater Boston Area

Current
Past
  • Board Member at Hydrogen Energy Center
  • Vice President of Service Operations at Gene-IT, Inc.
  • Consultant at Phylos
  • VP Solutions Development at NetGenics, Inc.
  • CEO at Mosaic Bioinformatics
  • Manager, Bioinformatics Software at Wyeth-Ayerst
  • President, Founder at Williamstone Enterprises
Education
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Connections
183 connections
Industry
Computer Software
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Richard Resnick’s Summary

Successful entrepreneur (sold Mosaic Bioinformatics to NetGenics in 2000) and software wizard with experience in the software, mobile, life sciences, entertainment, and energy industries. MIT Media Lab startup CEO. Executive manager of software development teams, professional services teams, and sales teams in high-tech fast-paced companies.

Richard Resnick’s Specialties:

Entrepreneurial strategy, business planning, fund raising, team building, P&L management and growth, application conceptualization, software development, data warehousing, user-centered design.


Richard Resnick’s Experience

  • Vice President Software and Professional Services

    GenomeQuest, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    2009Present (less than a year)

    Executive management of product development and professional services teams for growing DNA sequence informatics company.

  • President and CEO

    Harmony Line

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)

    June 2004Present (5 years 2 months)

    Harmony Line is a three year old software company with roots in the MIT Media Lab. Our flagship product, Hyperscore, allows people with no formal musical background to compose rich, beautiful music. Ten year old children with no music training have used the software to create pieces that have been played by world-renowned symphony orchestras. The New York Times says it, "represents a quantum leap" in composition software. For more information, go to http://www.hyperscore.com.

  • Board Member

    Hydrogen Energy Center

    (Computer Software industry)

    20072007 (less than a year)

  • Vice President of Service Operations

    Gene-IT, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    November 2001May 2003 (1 year 7 months)

    Developed marketing strategy for US sales and managed the relationship between Marketing and R&D. Rolled out products under a rebranded product line. Worked directly with General Manager of US operations to build a US operation from the ground up. Managed the growing services organization as a profit center.

  • Consultant

    Phylos

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Biotechnology industry)

    20012002 (1 year)

    Bioinformatics implementation consultant, managing team of developers to write in-house bioinformatics applications.

  • VP Solutions Development

    NetGenics, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2000November 2001 (1 year 7 months)

    Transformed a 9 person, $100,000 revenue department into a thirty person, $5 million organization. Reorganized the group around functional groups and horizontal service teams led by experienced business project directors. Negotiated the single largest contract in the company’s history: a “solution sale” of combined products and services exceeding $3 million over a two-year period. Department ended up generating over 80% of the entire company’s business, with only 30% of the company’s workforce.

  • CEO

    Mosaic Bioinformatics

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    November 1999May 2000 (7 months)

    Co-founded company and held direct responsibility for all aspects of organizational growth. Raised start-up funds from local angels in a convertible debt offering. Developed marketing and sales strategy, as well as partnering strategy. Partnering discussions quickly led to interest by NetGenics in a corporate acquisition, creating a 4x multiple for investors in less than a year. Pioneered the adoption of data warehousing technology in the life science industry.

  • Manager, Bioinformatics Software

    Wyeth-Ayerst

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    April 1998October 1999 (1 year 7 months)

    Integrated a geographically distributed group of 15 engineers to work together on large-scale software development projects in the midst of a corporate-wide reduction in force. Managed the specification and development of gene-finding software which is still in use by the company six years later.

  • President, Founder

    Williamstone Enterprises

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 1995April 1998 (2 years 8 months)

    Founded a consulting practice to deliver software and database services to the biotech industry. Developed a web-based application to connect buyers at scientific laboratories to vendors of oligonucleotides.


Richard Resnick’s Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    MBA , Entrepreneurship, Economics , 20032004

  • MIT Sloan School of Management

    M.B.A. , June 2003June 2004

  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

    M.S. , Computer Science , September 1995May 1997

  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst

    B.S. , Computer Science , September 1990May 1994


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