Michael J. Miille, Ph.D.

President and COO

Mike Miille joined AgraQuest as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer in May of 2004. Previously, he was co-founder and COO of Sagres Discovery, a cancer therapeutics discovery company, where he was responsible for all aspects of operations and finance. Before Sagres, he was President and CEO of Zoogen, Inc. and Director and General Manager of Celera AgGen and Perkin Elmer Zoogen after they acquired Zoogen. At Zoogen, PE Zoogen and Celera AgGen, he led efforts to develop new markets which increased revenues by 300%. He expanded the company into the animal forensic market, and into plant genomics, which was spearheaded by the acquisition of Linkage Genetics and capped by award of a $20 million RhoBio contract.

Before AgGen and Zoogen, Dr. Miille was General Manager, Commercial Business, Quanterra (formed by merger of Enseco and IT) where he was responsible for 16 laboratories and $70M in revenues. Prior to that he worked in various management positions for Cal Analytical Labs, which later became Enseco.

Dr. Miille received a PhD in Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry from the University of California at Davis and a BS in Biological Sciences from Stanford.