Ernest A. Knesel, Jr.

Diagnostic Lab Industry Executive | Innovator

Ernest Knesel Professional Milestones

Over more than 50 years, Mr. Knesel has founded or co-founded 20 lab-related businesses.

1945

Mr. Knesel is born in New Orleans, Louisiana to Ernest Arthur and Catherine Charlotte Knesel.

1959

Mr. Knesel studies at St. John Vianney Seminary in Savannah, Georgia.

1963

Mr. Knesel studies at Armstrong College in Savannah, Georgia.

1966

Mr. Knesel becomes a technologist for the American Biological Control Laboratory in Tenafly, New Jersey.

1968

Mr. Knesel marries Lavina Lynn Menge and begins their most successful endeavor, their family.

1968

Mr. Knesel receives a Bachelor of Science from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey, and becomes a senior technologist at Englewood Hospital in New Jersey.

1969

Mr. Knesel founds Biomedical Reference Laboratories, Inc., where he serves as vice president in Burlington, North Carolina. This company became Laboratory Corporation of America in 1995.

1970

Mr. Knesel receives a Master of Science in biochemistry from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

1971

Mr. Knesel is certified as a clinical chemist through the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC).

1982

Mr. Knesel becomes senior vice president of Roche Biomedical Laboratories, Inc.

1989

Mr. Knesel founds Roche Image Analysis Systems, Inc., where he serves as president in Elon, North Carolina.

1996

Mr. Knesel founds Autocyte, Inc., where he serves as executive vice president.

1999

Mr. Knesel founds TriPath Imaging, where he serves as executive vice president.

2000

Mr. Knesel serves as a consultant for True North Group.

2001

Mr. Knesel founds Select Diagnostics Inc., where he serves as president.

2003

Mr. Knesel co-founds Select Laboratory Partners, where he serves as chief executive officer and chairman.

2006

Mr. Knesel founds Select Laboratories in South Carolina.

2007

Mt. Knesel founds CellSolutions, LLC, where he serves as chief executive officer and chairman.

2012

Mr. Knesel co-founds Select Lab Software, Select Reference Lab, ExCell Diagnostics, Select Multigen Diagnostics, and additional businesses including CellSolutions, GmbH in Germany.

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