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Tom Civik

Oct 11, 2017

Tom Civik has been appointed as chief commercial officer of Foundation Medicine and will start his new position in mid November. Most recently, he was a vice president and franchise leader at Genentech, where he was responsible for several oncology products. Earlier, he held various commercial positions at Sanofi-Synthelabo. Civik holds a BA from St. Norbert College and a master's degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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