SomaLogic has named Byron Hewett as CEO. Hewett takes replaces Larry Gold, who will continue serving the Boulder, Colo.-based company as chairman of the board. Gold will also work as a full-time adviser, SomaLogic said.
Gold co-founded SomaLogic in 2000 and had served as CEO until Hewett's appointment. In a statement, Gold said that while the protein biomarker discovery and clinical diagnostics company has been successful in its initial goals, it needed "additional leadership with the deep business experience and knowledge to take SomaLogic to the next level," and that Hewett is "the leader we need at this critical stage of our company's growth."
Hewett most recently was chairman and CEO of Biobehavioral Diagnostics. He previously was president and CEO of Immunicon and senior vice president of sales and marketing and general manager, North America, for Qiagen. He also has held leadership posts at Abbott Diagnostics, Chiron/Bayer, and BioCircuits.