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Illumina Appoints Susan Tousi as Chief Commercial Officer and Dr. Alex Aravanis as Chief Technology Officer, Head of Research and Product Development
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that it is appointing Susan Tousi as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), and Dr. Alex
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[{"type":"text","content":" SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nIllumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that it is appointing Susan Tousi as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), and Dr. Alex Aravanis as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Head of Research and Product Development.\n\n“We’re fortunate to have Susan and Alex, two of the strongest leaders in the genomics industry, take on these large, important roles,” said Francis deSouza, Chief Executive Officer of Illumina. “Susan and Alex are talented and passionate executives with successful track records of creating a compelling vision, building great teams, delivering exceptional results, and championing our culture. In their new roles, they will help further accelerate our innovation roadmaps and expand our customer relationships globally.”\n\nSusan has more than 25 years of technical and general management leadership at scale and has led Illumina’s global product development since 2012. Under her leadership, Illumina delivered an expansive portfolio of breakthrough, industry-leading products across sequencing platforms, microarrays, library prep and informatics, including HiSeq™ X, NovaSeq™ 6000, NextSeq™ 500/550/550Dx/1000/2000, iSeq™ 100, MiSeq™ Dx, the world’s first FDA-cleared/CE-IVD marked sequencer, the DNAflex library prep solutions, COVIDSeq™ Test, and TruSight™ Oncology 500. She led the successful acquisitions of Edico Genomics, BlueBee and Enancio, which brought DRAGEN’s™ accelerated Bio-IT platform to Illumina, and resulted in the launch of Illumina Connected Analytics. Prior to Illumina, Susan was Corporate Vice President and General Manager for Eastman Kodak’s Consumer Inkjet Systems, and before that, spent 10 years at Hewlett-Packard in technical and management roles. She has received numerous business, technology, and leadership awards, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineers in 2018. Susan holds an MBA from UCLA and an Honors BS in Engineering Science from Pennsylvania State University.\n\n“I am excited to lead Illumina’s extraordinarily talented commercial team to empower our customers around the world with innovations that further unlock the power of the genome,” said Susan. “I look forward to strengthening relationships between Illumina’s research and development teams and our customers, boosting our offerings and benefiting all. I am deeply passionate about our products and in...