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Sophia Genetics: Gaëtan Fraikin, Sergei Yakneen

Sep 19, 2019

Sophia Genetics has hired Gaëtan Fraikin as chief marketing officer and Sergei Yakneen as chief information officer. Fraikin joins the Swiss company after short stints with Addictive, Roche, and Illumina, plus 14 years as a marketing agency executive. Yakneen is a former technical officer with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and led the technical working group of the Pan Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes project for the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. 

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