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Kevin Harley, Tim Orpin, Richard Shen

Oct 31, 2007
Illumina announced a number of personnel changes during its third-quarter conference call last week.
 
Kevin Harley has joined the firm as vice president of human resources. He previously held a similar position at Intralase. Before Intralase, Harley worked at Edwards Lifesciences and Baxter Healthcare, Illumina said.
 
Tim Orpin has also joined the company as general manager of Asia Pacific and Japan. Orpin served previously as vice president, Asia Pacific, for Applied Biosystems.
 

Additionally, Illumina said that Richard Shen has been promoted to vice president of assay biochemistry and reagent manufacturing. He previously served as senior director of array biochemistry.

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