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Agendia: Suja Chandrasekaran, Scott Mendel

Jan 06, 2022

Agendia has appointed Suja Chandrasekaran and Scott Mendel to its board. Chandrasekaran is currently SVP, chief digital and information officer at CommonSpirit Health. She previously was global chief technology officer at Walmart and Kimberly-Clark. Mendel was most recently CEO of GenMark Diagnostics prior to it being acquired by Roche. He previously was COO and CFO at GenMark and before that he held senior leadership roles at The Active Network and GE Healthcare.

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