Michelle Munson

Jan 22, 2015

GenoSpace has appointed Aspera CEO Michelle Munson to its board as an independent director. Munson founded Aspera in 2004. IBM acquired the data transfer technology firm in January 2014. Prior to Aspera, she was a software engineer at research and start-up firms specializing in content networking and distributed systems.

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