Myriad Genetics: Sam Raha

Myriad Genetics said that Sam Raha will be joining the company as the firm's chief operating officer, effective Dec. 11, where he will be responsible for the company's laboratory operations, customer service initiatives, and product development work. Raha will join Myriad from Agilent Technologies, where he was president of the firm's Diagnostics and Genomics Group. Agilent said that Raha's resignation is effective Dec. 8. Prior to Agilent, Raha was VP of global marketing at Illumina. He holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and has an undergraduate degree in molecular and cell biology from the University of California, Berkeley.