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David Sanchez, Niraj Nagrani, Leila Pourashemi

Sep 07, 2017

Ancestry has added David Sanchez, Niraj Nagrani, and Leila Pourhashemi to its product and technology team. Sanchez joins as vice president, DNA product. He is formerly the head of product for Alexa at Amazon Lab126. Nagrani will help lead Ancestry's efforts to strengthen its web, mobile, cloud, and data technology platform and to complete its successful migration to the Amazon Web Services cloud. He was previously senior vice president of platform at American Express. Pourhashemi will be Ancestry's vice president of business operations, and joins the company from Intui.

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