Ms. McCardell joined Roka Bioscience in May 2010.. Ms. McCardell brings 18 years of experience in the commercialization and sale of rapid microbiological detection systems in the food, pharmaceutical, and personal care markets.. Before joining Roka’s Executive Team, Ms. McCardell was with Lonza Bioscience, serving as Global Director of. Commercial Development for their Rapid Testing business from 2005 to 2010, and as the Business Unit Director of food safety testing for Strategic Diagnostics from 2001 to 2005.. From 1992 to 2001, Ms. McCardell held positions of increasing responsibility at Dupont-Qualicon, where she assisted in the development, launch, and sale of the DuPont Riboprinter® and Bax® Systems, which became the market leader in molecular-based pathogen detection and identification systems for the food industry, and received the prestigious DuPont Marketing Excellence Award in 2001.. Ms. McCardell received an M.S. degree in Soil Microbiology from the University of Delaware and conducted post-graduate studies in molecular microbiology at the University of Minnesota. She received her B.S. in Biology from Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania.
