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Robert D. Thompson
Chief Executive Officer of eScreen, Inc.
Robert D. Thompson serves as Chief Executive Officer of eScreen, Inc., an Overland Park, Kansas - based developer, manufacturer and marketer of employment screening products and services. Mr. Thompson joined eScreen, Inc. in April of 2002.
In this role, Thompson oversees the day-to-day business including sales, marketing, operations, finance and the distribution of the eScreen Drugs of Abuse Screening System. The eScreen system is the first FDA-cleared instant, automated, drug-testing device for use that provides negative results within minutes, versus the industry standard of 48 to 72 hours.
Before joining eScreen, Thompson was Chief Executive of OraSure Technologies, a publicly traded, drugs of abuse and infectious disease diagnostic company and the leader in the field of point-of-care oral fluid diagnostic testing. Thompson orchestrated the creation of OraSure Technologies through the merger of Epitope, Inc. and STC Technologies, the two leading oral fluid companies.
Before joining OraSure Technologies, Thompson was an Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at LabOne, Inc. a publicly traded substance abuse, clinical and risk assessment laboratory services provider. In this position, which was assumed in 1993, Mr. Thompson was responsible for finance and all operations.
From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Thompson was Chief Financial Officer of Metwest, a large regional clinical laboratory. From 1983 through 1990, Mr. Thompson was an international consultant with Mercer Management Consulting, a provider of consulting services to Fortune 500 companies.
Thompson received his Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor of Sciences in Economics form the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.