Richard E. Bleil, Ph.D., Founder, President and CEO

  Dr. Bleil was was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.  He earned his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati.  He worked in industry in Cincinnati as an analytical chemist before returning to college to earn his Ph.D. from Boston College.  Since then, he worked as a post-doc at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, as a visiting scientist at Harvard University, a post doc at Purdue University, and as an assistant professor at the Kettering College of Medical Arts.  He attained the rank of tenured full professor at Dakota State University before founding Bleil Laboratories, Inc.

Tamera Nordaune, Laboratory Manager

  Tami, as she goes by, was born and raised in the Southwestern Minnesota town of Wood Lake. After graduating from Lakeview High School (Cottonwood, MN), she spent time studying Marine Biology in Wisconsin (Carroll College) and Hawai’I (Hawai’i Pacific University). After three years of college, she veered off the path of Marine Biology and onto that of Environmental Science. Tami earned her B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Minnesota in St.Paul in May of 2006. During her schooling, she worked for the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service doing both laboratory and field work.