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Executive Q&A: Head of Stratatech started on the ground floor

Russ Smestad isn?t a scientist, but he has been a key player in the growth of several of the Madison area?s scientific companies, and he has watched the biotechnology industry here grow up. Smestad is president of Stratatech Corp., a Madison company that recently announced promising results in trials of StrataGraft, the human skin substitute it has developed to treat burn patients.