Kirk Malloy

Dr. Malloy has spent over 25 years in key leadership positions with Illumina, Inc., Biosite Inc. and QIAGEN Inc., and most recently served as the chief executive officer of Verogen, Inc., from August 2017 to August 2018 after founding the company and securing initial funding. Dr. Malloy is currently founder and principal at BioAdvisors, LLC, where he provides strategic consulting services to life science, diagnostics and genomics companies. Prior to founding BioAdvisors in April 2016, he was at Illumina, Inc. from 2002 to 2016, most recently as senior vice president and general manager of Life Sciences and Applied Markets from January 2014 to April 2016. From May 2005 to December 2013, he served as vice president of Global Customer Solutions; he was also vice president of Global Quality from December 2005 to May 2007. Dr. Malloy joined Illumina in 2002 as senior director of Global Customer Solutions. Before Illumina, he held various commercial leadership positions at Biosite Inc. and QIAGEN Inc. Dr. Malloy currently serves as a director for NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), as chairman of the board for cancer diagnostics company, Tagomics, and is a director for several private genomics tools companies. Dr. Malloy earned his B.S. in Biology from the University of Miami, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware and held post-doctoral and instructor positions at Boston University and Northeastern University.