Nashville Biosciences: Dan Benetz, Geoff Nilsen, Curt Allen, Wacey Richards

Nashville Biosciences (NashBio), a wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has appointed Dan Benetz as CFO and Geoff Nilsen as VP and head of omics. The company has also promoted Curt Allen to VP of sales and Wacey Richards to VP of engineering.

Benetz has served as a partner at TechCXO. Previously he held CFO positions at Xsolis, The Tugboat Group, and NuGen Technologies, and other leadership positions at Affymetrix and Intel. He received a BS in mathematics/applied sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Nilsen previously held various leadership roles of increasing responsibility at Illumina, Apton Biosystems, Invitae, Complete Genomics, and Perlegen Sciences. He holds a BS in biological sciences and symbolic systems from Stanford University.

Allen joined NashBio in 2022 as director of sales for imaging. He has previously served as director of international sales and business development at Subtle Medical; general manager of North America, magnetic resonance (MR) at Esaote; and MR regional director at GE Healthcare. He received an MBA from Southeastern Louisiana University and a BS from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Richards joined NashBio in 2022 as director of engineering, and previously held leadership positions at Swell, DeepSee, and Lingotek. He also founded IT services company Secure Cloud. He received a BS in cloud and systems administration from Western Governors University in Salt Lake City.