Sid Braginski

Sid Braginsky is the former president of Olympus America, Inc. While there, he built a billion dollar business focused on optical products including cameras and scientific instruments (microscopes, endoscopes, and chemistry analyzers). He also served in many senior positions including Chief Operating Officer, and Senior Vice President during his three decades with Olympus.

Sid is currently the CEO and Chairman of the Board for Atropos Technology, LLC. Atropos is the majority shareholder of Digilab LLC, the former molecular spectroscopy division of Bio-Rad. Atropos also is responsible for Double D Venture Fund LLC. He also serves on the Board of Directors at DJO, EndoRobotics, Endogene, Waveline Medical, Solidlook Medical, Invendo Medical Gmbh, and SensaVidas. He held previous positions on boards for Electrooptical Systems Inc. (currently Mela Medical), Semrock, Estech (currently CHF Technologies), Response Biomedical, Diomed, and Noven Pharmaceuticals.

Sid also holds a number of community leadership and education advocacy positions for the sciences and arts including Chairman of the Board for City University of New York and Director of the Board of Library Overseers for the Jewish Theological Seminary.