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Centogene: Sun Kim, Oved Amitay

May 15, 2020

Sun Kim will become interim chief business officer of Centogene, effective June 1. He will replace Oved Amitay, who will leave the company on May 31, until a permanent chief business officer has been appointed. Kim is currently Centogene's chief strategy and investor relations officer. Prior to that, he was head of corporate strategy at Shire, and before that, he held multiple roles in the Alcon division of Novartis. Kim holds PhD and MS degrees in chemical engineering from Stanford University.

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