The Affymetrix Alumni: Where Are They Now?

Pratima Rao, co-founder and vice president of marketing, Genia Technologies

Richard Rava, president, Verinata Health

Dan Reed, director of litigation, Salesforce.com [Added: 10:30 am, 5/3/12]

Peter Root, partner, Kaye Scholer [Added: 10:30 am, 5/3/12]

Carsten Rosenow, associate director of market development and sales, genotyping, Illumina

Iain Russell, senior product manager, Life Technologies

Michael Ryan, president, Accelerate

Greg Schiffman, chief financial officer, Dendreon

Victor Sementchenko, senior data analysis scientist, NuGEN Technologies

Mamatha Shekar, director of scientific curation, NextBio

Alan Sherr, vice president and chief IP counsel, RainDance Technologies

Sejal Sheth, vice president of product marketing, PacBio

Sue Siegel, general partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Deepak Singh, vice president/Europe, PacBio

Elise Schuller, litigation paralegal, Zynga [Added: 10:30 am, 5/3/12]

Nigel Skinner, director of business development in Europe, Agilent Technologies

David Smith, senior director, laboratory operations, Complete Genomics

Jeff Smith, regional account manager, Ion Torrent Systems

Patrick Smith, sales, Mettler Toledo

Mark Solakian, senior vice president and general counsel, Joule Unlimited

John Sowatsky, technology assessment and instrument development, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Eric Spence, senior engineer, Agilent Technologies

John Stark, vice president of clinical and applied markets, Life Technologies

Rachel Steger, marketing director, Second Genome

Sadashi Suzuki, president, Bio-Rad Laboratories-Japan

Alex Szabo, principal, Golden Gate Life Sciences Partners

Patrice Tanti, senior program manager of operations, Life Technologies

Jean-Marc Terral, general manager for Korea, Singapore, South East Asia, Life Technologies

Janeen Thompson, project supervisor, professional education, SI-BONE

Katie Tillman Buck, director of marketing and public engagement, Center for Science Technology and Society, Santa Clara University

Jessica Tonani, co-founder, Delphi Bio Consulting

Martha Trela, vice president of marketing, PacBio [Added: 11:50 am PT, 5/2/12]

Mike Troutman, global product scientist/trainer, Agilent Technologies

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.