Seer: Omead Ostadan

Omead Ostadan will join Redwood City, California-based proteomics firm Seer as president and chief operating officer, effective June 29. He will also join the company's board of directors. Ostadan is currently chief product and marketing officer and a member of the executive management team of Illumina. He joined Illumina in 2007 as VP of marketing after the firm acquired Solexa, where he served in the same position. Prior to that, he held various marketing roles at Applied Biosystems. Ostadan holds a BS in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.