Bio Details

Deborah Neff has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2022. Since 2020, Ms. Neff has served as the Principal of DJN Consulting, LLC, an executive management, business strategy and operations consulting company. Prior to that, from 2017 to 2020, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Evanostics LLC, an early-stage, private biotechnology company. From 2014 to 2016, she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Complete Genomics Inc., a business unit of BGI-Shenzhen, a publicly-traded genomic sequencing and proteomic services company. From 2006 to 2013, she served as the Chief Executive Officer at Pathwork Diagnostics Inc., a privately-held molecular diagnostics company, and from 2003 to 2006, she served as the Chief Executive Officer at Predicant Biosciences, formerly a private biotechnology company. Ms. Neff also served as President of BD Biosciences, Inc., a global business segment of Becton Dickinson, from 1995 to 2003.

Since October 2021, Ms. Neff has served as a director on the board of Atomo Diagnostics Limited, an Australian publicly-listed rapid diagnostics company, and served on the board of directors of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. from 2011 to 2017. She also serves on the board of directors of Guide Dogs for the Blind and on the advisory boards of privately funded start-up companies Wainamics, Inc. and Partillion Bioscience Inc.

Ms. Neff holds a B.S. degree in Physiology from the University of California, Davis and completed graduate training and licensure in clinical laboratory science. She has attended executive business programs in finance, marketing and general management at Wharton, Stanford and Harvard Business Schools.