Dr. Farkas is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School and the University of Michigan Business School.

Before founding Wolf Bioscience, Dr. Farkas worked at the Cerner Corporation, a medical software company, where he was responsible for devising a corporate internet strategy, and at ArsDigita (a RedHat company), as a director of business development. He was also a special partner at Waypoint Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital fund.

Dr. Farkas is a licensed general practitioner, and in his spare time does volunteer work as a physician/manager and as a visiting lecturer at the Florida Atlantic University College of Business. He is an active member of the American College of Physician Executives and the American Medical Association.

Dr. Farkas is a graduate of Columbia University and the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. He has over 40 years of experience in optometry and is a founding partner of Farkas, Kassalow and Resnick, one of the largest specialty practices in the United States. A prolific author and practice management expert, Dr. Farkas was a contributing editor to Optometric Management and Optometric Economics. He has published almost 60 papers and articles over the course of his career and is a member of the Johnson & Johnson/Vistakon Speakers Bureau.

Before signing on with Wolf Bioscience, Dr. Farkas was a Professor at Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Dr. Farkas is also the founder of ODwire.org, the largest non-commercial optometric web site, with an active membership of approximately 6,000 optometrists and optometry students.