Meet Our Team

Meet the team of dedicated professionals ready to get what you need.

Jason Swedlow

Jason Swedlow

President & CEO

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Jason Swedlow

President & CEO


Jason Swedlow earned a BA in Chemistry from Brandeis University in 1982 and PhD in Biophysics from UCSF in 1994. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr T.J. Mitchison at UCSF and then Harvard Medical School, Dr Swedlow established his own laboratory in 1998 at the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2002 and named Professor of Quantitative Cell Biology in 2007. His lab focuses on studies of mitotic chromosome structure and dynamics and has published numerous leading papers in the field. He is co-founder of the Open Microscopy Environment (OME), a community-led open source software project that develops specifications and tools for biological imaging. In 2005, he founded Glencoe Software, Inc., a commercial start-up that provides commercial licenses and customization for OME software. In 2011, Prof Swedlow and the OME Consortium were named BBSRC’s Social Innovator of the Year and Overall Innovator of the Year. In 2012, he was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Prof Swedlow has organized or directed several courses in quantitative microscopy at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA and the National Centre for Biological Science, Bangalore. India.

Chris Allan

Chris Allan

VP Software Engineering

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Chris Allan

VP Software Engineering


Chris Allan is a Canadian-born software developer and systems administrator from Vancouver, British Columbia who joined the Swedlow lab in early 2003. His early contributions were the initial implementation of mass-storage infrastructure and network groundwork to support the University of Dundee’s Light Microscopy Facility (LMF), but he now spends most of his time working on the OMERO.server project.

Chris gained most of his systems administration and software development expertise as a high school student working in the commercial sector doing security, systems and network consulting for local companies and as a contractor/employee in the GT Trust high-security solutions team of GT Group Telecom Services (now a division of Bell Canada). His software interests lie in the fields of distributed computing, secure programming practices and encryption.

When not with a head down in Java, C++ or Applied Cryptography he can be seen playing the most Canadian of games, ice hockey, with various teams in Dundee including Hockey For All.

Kyle Balis-West

Kyle Balis-West

Software Developer

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Kyle Balis-West

Software Developer


Kyle Balis-West joined Glencoe Software in March 2022 as a software developer.

Kyle graduated from Appalachian State University in December of 2020 with a BS in computer science and a minor in mathematics. After graduating they worked as a front end developer for a year before joining Glencoe Software. Kyle likes to spend time with their wife and three dogs.

Sebastien Besson

Sebastien Besson

Software Developer

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Sebastien Besson

Software Developer


Sebastien Besson joined Glencoe Software in September 2022 as a software developer.

After receiving his PhD in Physics from the Université Pierre at Marie Curie in 2007 and a postdoctoral fellowship in biophysics at Harvard University with Dr Dumais, he worked as a software developer with the Danuser lab to package in-house analysis software for the cell biology community. In 2012, he moved to the UK to join the OME team where he spent a decade building essential open-source infrastructure for the bioimaging community including OME-TIFF, Bio-Formats, OMERO and the Image Data Resource (IDR).

Erin Diel

Erin Diel

Head of Product

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Erin Diel

Head of Product


Erin Diel joined Glencoe Software in July 2020 as an image application specialist. She is responsible for supporting scientists and other professionals who use our products and developing new software applications for data handling and image analysis.

She is a neuroscientist with an interest in microscopy, neuroanatomy and auditory processing. She received a PhD in Biochemistry from Harvard University in 2018 then remained at Harvard to work as an Imaging Specialist in the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging and teach “The Musical Brain: How the Brain Processes Sound and Creates Music.” Although originally from Kansas City, she has enjoyed living and running in Boston since 2012 with her partner and their cat.

Nichola Haxton

Nichola Haxton

Business Administrator

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Nichola Haxton

Business Administrator


Nichola Haxton joined Glencoe Software in October 2020 as business administrator.

Originally from Aberdeen, she now lives in Dundee.

Andreas Knab

Andreas Knab

Software Developer

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Andreas Knab

Software Developer


Andreas Knab has been working as a software developer for over 25 years, including more than seven at Glencoe Software. He received his MS degree in computer science from James Madison University, Virginia, in 1999.

Since then, he has worked on a number of educational data management projects, including an open source digital image database used in art history programs at numerous universities. After living 16 years in the United States and 18 months in Barcelona, he and his wife currently reside in his native Germany.

Kevin Kozlowski

Kevin Kozlowski

Software Developer

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Kevin Kozlowski

Software Developer


Kevin Kozlowski joined Glencoe Software in 2018 as a software developer. Prior to that, he developed data analytics software for Amazon Alexa in Cambridge, MA and economics software for Bloomberg L.P. in New York, NY. He holds an MSM in finance from Case Western Reserve University and a BS in mathematics from the University of Michigan.

Kevin currently lives with his wife in Idaho Falls, ID. Outside of work, he enjoys drawing, music, cooking, and games.

Melissa Linkert

Melissa Linkert

Software Developer

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Melissa Linkert

Software Developer


Melissa Linkert is a programmer living in the Wisconsin area. She works on the Bio-Formats package, as well as the OME plugins for ImageJ.

She previously worked as part of LOCI on the Bio-Formats project.

Chris MacLeod

Chris MacLeod

Systems Administrator

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Chris MacLeod

Systems Administrator


Chris MacLeod joined Glencoe Software in 2012 as a systems administrator.

Chris has a background in psychology and computer science. When he’s not wrangling servers, he is an avid disc golfer, occasional chef, husband, and father to two children.

Emil Rozbicki

Emil Rozbicki

Head of Applications

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Emil Rozbicki

Head of Applications


Emil Rozbicki joined Glencoe Software in October 2013 as Applications Specialist.

He is responsible for testing and quality assurance and development of new software applications for data analysis and processing. Emil is a physicist interested in computational physics, biophysics and bioengineering.

He received MSc in theoretical solid state physics from Wroclaw University of Technology in 2007 and PhD in experimental solid state physics from University of St Andrews in 2011. He worked as postdoctoral fellow in C. J. Weijer group in Dundee, where he designed and built the first light-sheet microscopy setup in the UK. In his free time he enjoys cooking, photography, and long walks with his wife and daughter Maya.

David Stirling

David Stirling

Biological Data Science Specialist

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David Stirling

Biological Data Science Specialist


David Stirling joined Glencoe Software in October 2021 as a biological data science specialist.

Prior to that, he worked on image analysis and development of the CellProfiler software package at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is interested in development of image processing tools which help to provide insights into biological problems. He previously received a PhD in Infection and Immunity from University College London, during which he gained experience in high throughput microscopy and data analysis.

Stephen S

Stephen S

Systems Administrator

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Stephen S

Systems Administrator


Stephen joined Glencoe Software in June 2022 as a systems administrator.

He lives in Florida, and he enjoys hiking outdoors with his wife and taking care of their animals.

Wilma Woudenberg

Wilma Woudenberg

PA to Jason Swedlow

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Wilma Woudenberg

PA to Jason Swedlow


Wilma Woudenberg joined Glencoe Software in April 2012 as Jason’s personal assistant.

She also provides support for his work with the OME team at the University of Dundee in Scotland.

Muhanad Zahra

Muhanad Zahra

Biological Data Science Specialist

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Muhanad Zahra

Biological Data Science Specialist


Muhanad Zahra joined Glencoe Software in July 2021 as a biological data science specialist.

He is responsible for the continuous development and improvement of our data visualisation and image analysis tools while supporting researchers, scientists and other professionals who use our products. He is interested in product development, medical image processing and analysis, and bioengineering related technologies. He graduated from Imperial College London with an MSc in Biomedical Engineering specialising in Neurotechnology. During his MSc, he worked on a data science driven motor learning project at Brain & Behaviour Lab. Muhanad currently lives with his family in Manchester, England. When not being excited about his latest algorithm or script, he enjoys spending his free time playing guitar, swimming, and spending time with his family.

Leadership

Behind every great team is strong leadership. The Board of Directors at Glencoe Software is a team of world-renowned experts in the field of biological imaging.

Peter Sorger

Peter Sorger

Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Gaudenz Danuser

Gaudenz Danuser

Professor of Cell Biology, The University of Texas Medical School

David Sibbald

David Sibbald

CEO of Aridhia Informatics

Our Advisors

World-class advice helps ensure Glencoe Software targets the right markets and makes the correct strategic choices.

Bharath Chinamanthur

Bharath Chinamanthur

Charter Member, TIE Seattle

Bharath Chinamanthur is a Charter Member at TIE Seattle, actively mentors at least 2 entrepreneurs every year and is passionate about fostering entrepreneurship. The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region.

Caroline Popper

Caroline Popper

Co-Founder and President, Popper and Company

Caroline Popper founded Popper and Company with Ken Walz more than ten years ago to address inefficiencies in health care by helping life science companies develop and commercialize new technology. Today, the members of our growing team leverage their extensive knowledge of the tools and trends shaping all aspects of health care and its participants.

Our Investors

We thank our investors for their support!

Aridhia Informatics

TIE Angels Group Seattle (TAGS)

Seattle Angel Area Investors

Glencoe Friends and Family

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