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Guardant Health Appoints High-Tech-Veteran Kumud Kalia Chief Information Officer
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH) a leading precision oncology company, has appointed Kumud Kalia as
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[{"type":"text","content":"REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH) a leading precision oncology company, has appointed Kumud Kalia as the company’s new Chief Information Officer (CIO). Among his responsibilities, he will lead the company’s enterprise applications, information technology, and security teams.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chief Information Officer\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n “I believe Guardant Health is very well-positioned to soon become one of the industry’s leading generators of genomic data in the next-generation sequencing space. Kumud’s proven ability to successfully lead digital transformation at companies experiencing rapid growth makes him eminently qualified to lead our innovation and to scale up our data infrastructure as we prepare for the next phase of our growth,” said AmirAli Talasaz, PhD, Guardant Health President. “I’m confident in Kumud’s ability to lead our scaling efforts to serve more patients, as we progress toward our long-term goal of managing cancer across all stages of the disease.” “I’m thrilled to join a company with such a strong mission — conquering cancer with data,” said Kumud Kalia. “Guardant is poised to transform cancer care, and I am eager to lead the efforts needed to scale up Guardant’s data infrastructure to serve the tens of millions of patients around the world, and across the cancer care continuum.” Kumud has held technology, operations, and strategy leadership roles within high-tech, energy, telecommunications, and financial services companies. He was most recently Chief Information and Technology Officer at Cylance, Inc., and previously served as CIO at Akamai Technologies. Kumud has received Computerworld’s “best in class” recognition among its 100 Premier Information Technology (IT) leaders and has led teams that have won CIO100, CTO25, and other prestigious industry awards. Organizations under his leadership have repeatedly earned a place on Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT. Kumud holds an honors degree in Electronic Engineering from Bangor University, is a chartered engineer, and is a Fellow of both the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society. About Guardant HealthGuardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary ...