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Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Tim Cowper, Jordan Herman

Mar 30, 2021

Tim Cowper has become CFO and Jordan Herman general counsel of Oxford Nanopore Technologies.

Chowper joined the company in 2012 as commercial operations director after acting as interim finance director for several months in 2009. He became VP of finance in 2017. Previously, he was finance director at British Biotech and at Clipper Ventures, he cofounded Sterilox, and he was financial controller at Celltech.

Herman joins Oxford Nanopore from Baker Botts, where he was a partner and acted as Oxford's outside counsel for more than a decade. He holds a JD from Ohio State University and a degree in political economy from Washington University.

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