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Debra A. Young, joined Vermillion as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2006. In her role, Ms. Young is responsible for leading all aspects of financial management for Vermillion.
Ms. Young joins Ciphergen from ViOptix, Inc., where she served as CFO since 2004. In that position, she was responsible for all aspects of finance, human resources and information technologies, as well as legal and facilities. She successfully helped the company establish and implement systems and controls for gaining FDA clearance and launching its first product. For five years prior to ViOptix, Ms Young was CFO of the Nuclear Medicine Division of Philips Electronics, a $500 million business. While at Philips, Ms. Young provided strategic and operational financial management support to the CEO, worked to improve manufacturing efficiencies and margins and led the effort to outsource information technologies.
Before her promotion to CFO, she served as Vice President Controller for the Nuclear Medicine Division of Philips, formerly ADAC Laboratories, Inc. Ms. Young has also held positions at Somnus Medical Technologies, Inc. and Ernst & Young LLP. Ms. Young is a graduate of Manukau Technical Inst, NZ with an NDA major in accounting. | 