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Bernhard Spiess

May 11, 2016

Castle Biosciences has appointed Bernhard Spiess as chief operating officer. Bernhard most recently served as vice president of product management for both clinical chemistry and infectious diseases at Beckman Coulter. He spent 23 years working at Beckman Coulter and played key leadership roles in the development and commercialization of various platforms. Earlier in his career, Bernhard worked for Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur and Abbott Diagnostics.

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