Alex

Biography

Alex is a life sciences executive with over 25 years experience leading strategic initiatives that have transformed small companies and enabled large companies to penetrate new markets. Most recently, he was the Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Illumina, Inc. where his responsibilities included working with national governments and large institutions to develop precision medicine programs for healthcare systems. Previously he led the team that built Illumina’s cloud-based sequencing informatics platform, BaseSpace, now the world’s largest genomic database. Alex joined Illumina in 2010 when the company acquired Helixis, a molecular diagnostics company that he led as CEO after co-founding with Caltech Professor Axel Scherer and Nobel Laureate David Baltimore. Alex was previously the founder and CEO of Luxtera, the leading provider of silicon photonic cloud infrastructure. He began his career as a researcher at AT&T Bell Labs and has been awarded over 40 patents covering a range of inventions including the camera and fingerprint CMOS chip technologies widely used in today’s smartphones. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and an MBA from Columbia University in New York.

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