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Seer: Deep Nishar, Mostafa Ronaghi

Feb 17, 2021

Proteomics company Seer has appointed Deep Nishar and Mostafa Ronaghi to its board of directors. Nishar is a senior managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. Prior to that, he was senior VP of products and user experience at LinkedIn and held senior executive roles at Google. He is also the founder of enterprise software company Patkai Networks.

Ronaghi is the former chief technology officer, senior VP of entrepreneurial development, and senior VP of Illumina. He is also a cofounder of Grail, the Illumina Accelerator, Avantome, NextBio, ParAllele Bioscience, and Pyrosequencing, as well as a current scientific advisory member of Seer.

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