Kevan Samiee

Kevan brings nearly 25 years experience in life sciences technology research, development and commercialization. He started his career at Pacific Biosciences, a small, venture backed genomics startup and grew with the company through its first customer shipment and IPO. While there his work included basic research, manufacturing process development, enterprise IT system implementation and program management of multiple new product development programs. After PacBio, Kevan spent more than a decade in a variety of leadership roles at Illumina where he led multiple new product development programs and supervised research and engineering teams across the life sciences disciplines. Most recently, Kevan was responsible for a custom products, application development and partnerships team driving more than $300M in annual revenue.

Kevan holds a PhD in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an MBA from The Wharton School, and was an undergrad at the University of Illinois at Urbana where he earned a BS in Physics and a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics.

When not working, Kevan spends his time running around after his two children (ages 12 and 9), mountain biking, playing the piano and getting the family’s Belgian Malinois ready for his Schutzhund trials.