Our Team
Meet our expert and awesome team members
As President of Retisoft, Elizabeth’s focus is helping our clients achieve their goals and vision in making the world a better place and achieving success in their lab research. Her journey with Retisoft began in 2005, leading Sales and Marketing. In 2014, she assumed the leadership of the company. Driven by a culture of client success and company results, her focus has been in building an extensive network within the Life Science and Automation community. She participates in several groups like SLAS and LRIG. Elizabeth collaborates with trusted automation partners who are aligned with her vision and values of client success. Those strategic partnerships, and the Retisoft product business model enables Retisoft to impact across more research labs. She is proud to be able to supply automation products to the Life Science industry.
Miguel has a Software Systems Engineer and Master in Business Administration degrees. He has specializations and experience in Digital Business, Business Management Strategies, Business Management Development, Management Skills and Sales, and Training in virtual environments.
Miguel holds a PMP Certification with a proven history of project management in the research laboratory automation industry, telecommunications, and software development companies.
Andy is a software architect and engineer who has been part of the Retisoft team since 2009. He spends the majority of his time brainstorming ideas to improve the Genera scheduling software.
Andy believes that being an effective software engineer requires an up-to-date knowledge of the current technology. To this end, Andy enjoys developing software and being hands-on in the process.
Daniel King is a software application engineer with years of experience in laboratory automation. Prior to joining Retisoft in July 2016, he worked as the lead automation engineer on an antibody discovery platform at the University of Chicago.
Now he works on improving Genera, writing instrument drivers, and supporting clients. Having been a long-time user of Genera as a customer before joining Retisoft, he has a lot of experience developing automated workflows and can put that knowledge to work to help customers automate their experiments.
Eric Padilla is Automation Engineer with Retisoft since 2017, he is a dependable, analytical, and performance-driven hardware integration leader and designer with excellent problem-solving skills and several years of experience managing projects effectively and developing products. Determined on ensuring the highest level of efficiency throughout each project phase while guaranteeing the execution of the established goals. A devoted team player with the ability to thrive under pressure.
Tom employs a holistic view to research automation problem solving by combining cutting edge technology, science, and workflow analysis to develop and implement robust automated systems.
Tom is an automation expert with over 30 years consulting, managing, and directing small and large teams in the biotech research and clinical industries. The past twenty years have been focused on delivering novel automated and custom engineered solutions to improve processes in Ag Biotech Research. Tom has led and been a part of teams that have made lasting impressions on GMO testing science worldwide. He has automated numerous scientific processes and engineered, implemented, and supported many new and cutting-edge technologies.
Tom also heads Contextual Automation, LLC, a laboratory automaton consulting service that can help laboratories optimize science processes and expedite automation system solutions.
Joyce is result oriented professional with over 15 years of progressive experience in the marketing and brand arena, possessing high level of creativity and great capacity of analysis and planning. Joyce was highly involved with Retisoft’s re-brand. She has a clear understanding of what the companies focus is. Optimizing our design and aligning it to the concept “A smart approach to Automation” as this is exactly how we do business and service our clients from start to finish. We work smart. As a brand strategist, Joyce has aligned Retisoft’s vision, with all brand and marketing communications and initiatives, maintaining consistency throughout our continuous growth.
Jeff has over 18 years of automation engineering experience focused in design, support, programming and development of simple lab devices for single purpose functionality to fully automated custom robotic work cells for high throughput screening and research operations. His approach to R&D processes development is to identify system constraints early allowing for a truly fit for purpose system reducing overall complexity and capital expense.
Today we look at his life example for inspiration. He trusted our team to take over his legacy and we
are proud to continue working on his dream.
Paul founded Retisoft in September 1998. His vision was to develop the most powerful and flexible scheduler for the laboratory automation market. Through many years he worked closely with multiple labs and laboratory automation partners supporting them on their integration projects. His business strategy was always based on his strong values as a person. Today we look at his life example for inspiration. He trusted our team to take over his legacy and we are proud to continue working on his dream.