Tim Barabe offers more than 30 years of experience in the life sciences industry, across a broad range of financial and strategic roles. Most recently, Mr. Barabe served as the chief financial officer and executive vice president at Affymetrix Inc., where he led the company’s financial functions as well as the treasury, investor relations, and information technology departments. For more than 20 years, he held senior international executive roles in finance, general management, and strategic planning at Novartis AG. His roles included chief financial officer of the Sandoz Generics Business Unit, president of the CIBA Vision Corporation Specialty Lens Business Franchise, and group vice president and chief financial officer of CIBA Vision Corporation. Mr. Barabe has a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and an MBA from the University of Chicago.