People in the News: Marc Casper, Paul Danao, Vaibhav Joshi, More

Thermo Fisher Scientific's board of directors has elected Marc Casper its chairman, effective immediately. Casper, who is the company's president and CEO, succeeds Jim Manzi, who will continue to serve as a director on Thermo Fisher's board. Manzi has been a director at the company since May 2000 and was chairman of the board for 15 years. Also, Thomas Lynch has been elected as lead independent director, effective immediately. He has been a board member since May 2009.

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InformedDNA: Paul Danao, Jacqueline Kosecoff

Genetic services provider InformedDNA has named Paul Danao as chief growth officer, and appointed Jacqueline Kosecoff to its board as an independent director.

 

Danao previously held senior leadership roles at several healthcare technology and service companies including BlueCross BlueShield Association, AIM Specialty Health, and Healthcare Payment Specialists.

 

Kosecoff is a managing partner at Moriah Partners, and senior advisor at Warburg Pincus. Previously she served as a senior executive with UnitedHealth Group-PacifiCare, where she was CEO of OptumRx. She also was founder, president, and COO of Protocare, and prior to that served as professor of medicine and public health at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Centogene has named Vaibhav Joshi to the newly created role of chief data officer. He joins the company from Virgin Care, which provides health and social care services in the UK. He was chief data officer there. Before that Vaibhav was clinical informatics director at the Private Healthcare Information Network and clinical analytics lead at Ramsay Health Care UK.

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