Gary Guthart

Illumina has named Gary Guthart to its board of directors, effective Dec. 1, 2017. Guthart is president and CEO of Intuitive Surgical, which makes robots to assist with minimally invasive surgery. He has held a variety of roles at Intuitive Surgical since 1996 and previously developed foundational technology for computer-enhanced surgery at SRI International, which was formerly the Stanford Research Institute. He also served on the board of directors at Affymetrix from 2009 until it was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2016.