William Annet
Business Management
OncoCyte Corporation
Australia
Biography
William Annett joined OncoCyte as Chief Executive Officer in June 2015. Mr. Annett’s diagnostics industry experience includes his service as CEO of BioFX Laboratories, Inc., which created innovative products in the in vitro diagnostics field and was successfully sold to a large life sciences company. He founded and led Corra Life Sciences, a prenatal diagnostics company, which worked with a consortium of universities to develop blood tests for the major diseases of pregnancy. Early in his career, Mr. Annett also founded a consumer products company, which he led for six years as CEO. During his tenure, the company became publicly traded on NASDAQ and was then acquired. At Genentech, Mr. Annett led the Commercial Strategy group and managed large operational projects with several hundred team members. He also directed the Project Finance function for R&D, which supported all development pipeline products with more than 200 clinical trials. Most recently, Mr. Annett was a Managing Director at Accenture where he founded, built, and headed Accenture’s West Coast Life Sciences practice with sales, marketing, and delivery responsibilities for the entire territory. His clients included most of the major biotech and pharmaceutical companies in the western United States. Mr. Annett holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Research Interest
Business Management