Pacific Biosciences: Neil Ward

Pacific Biosciences has appointed Neil Ward as VP and general manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Ward comes to PacBio from Illumina, where he was senior sales director for Northern Europe. Prior to his 13 years at Illumina, he held bioinformatics and sales roles at Agilent Technologies, Silicon Genetics, Oxford Biomedica, and Celltech. Ward holds a master's degree in bioinformatics from the University of Manchester.