Olive Labs Inc.Founder & CEO
Jan. 2019Grass Valley, California, United StatesOlive is a high-complexity CLIA-certified laboratory that focuses on COVID-19 PCR testing. The laboratory serves large organizations, travelers, and long-term care homes with highly-customized diagnostics services. The laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art robotic diagnostics platforms providing accurate, rapid results within a 24-hour turnaround time. Responsibilities: • Founding and constructing of a high-complexity CLIA laboratory, and remaining compliant with ongoing FDA and CMS reporting requirements and inspections while scaling. • Establishing reimbursement credentials with US insurers. • Bootstrapping the business without outside funding to several million in revenue in under 2 years. • Developing and maintaining an integrated project plan for each of the client programs. Adjust the plan according to updates from internal team members and external partners. • Assessing resource needs and proactively addressing resource constraints and necessary prioritization decisions during an unprecedented and unpredictable public health emergency. • Engaging directly with FDA, CMS and CLIA inspectors, providing required regulatory submissions for bridging studies, QA/QC compliance, etc. • Executing scaling of facility and staff as needed. • Achieving highest number of 5-Star Google reviews from patients for a clinical laboratory in the state of Michigan. • Coordinate cross functional discussions and alignment as required. i.e., Regulatory updates, legal buy-in, finance approvals, budgets, etc. • Developed and implemented tools, templates, and infrastructure to maximize team and company efficiency.