BioTek CEO Alpert Interviewed for Foreign Policy Association Global Currents Series

February 20, 2009, WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek Instruments Inc., CEO Briar Alpert was recently interviewed for "Wall Street to Main Street", an audio interview as part of the weekly Global Currents series produced by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA). This online series features small business leaders and explores the intersection of business, globalization and foreign policy. Host Sarwar A. Kashmeri is a corporate advisor, business columnist and author of "Europe and America after 9/11 and Iraq: The Great Divide."

"Wall Street to Main Street" features key executives from small business (defined as having a payroll of 500 or less) to inject their views of the current American economy and efforts to revive it into the ongoing national dialog. The program runs in parallel with FPA speaking events in New York featuring key financial leaders of major financial institutions. The FPA's objective with this program is to balance Wall Street perspectives with those of small business leaders from around the country.

The entirety of Mr. Alpert's interview, The View from Main Street: Briar Alpert, is available at http://globalcurrents.foreignpolicyblogs.com or on Mr. Kashmeri's blog at www.mainstreetvoices.wordpress.com.

BioTek Instruments, Inc., headquartered in Winooski, VT, is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of microplate instrumentation and software. BioTek instrumentation is used to facilitate the drug discovery process, to advance discoveries in genomics and proteomics, and to aid in the advancement of life science research.

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