Ray Akhavan

Ray Akhavan has more than sixteen years of experience, including in a prominent international law firm, as well as in-house counsel in cancer diagnostics, consumer genomics and health companies. Most recently, Mr. Akhavan served as Associate General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel at Ancestry, and prior to that as General Counsel and Chief IP Counsel at a cancer molecular diagnostic company. Mr. Akhavan’s experience also includes working at the National Institutes of Health, and the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Mr. Akhavan was awarded a J.D. from Washington College of Law at American University and an M.S. in Molecular Biology from George Mason University.