Ken Knight

Ken leads the Invitae team on its mission to bring genetic information into mainstream medicine to help improve healthcare for billions of people. Before becoming the company's President and CEO, Ken served as Invitae's chief operating officer from June 2020 to July 2022. Ken is also a member of the board at Invitae. Prior to joining Invitae, he most recently served as vice president of transportation services at Amazon.com, Inc. from December 2019 to June 2020, and as vice president of Amazon's global delivery services and worldwide fulfillment human resources from April 2016 to December 2019. From 2012 to 2016, he served as general manager of the material handling and underground division, a global business with $6 billion in annual revenue, at Caterpillar Inc. In his earlier career, Ken served in various capacities at General Motors Company for 27 years, including as executive director of global manufacturing engineering and as manufacturing general manager. Since June 2021, Ken has served as a director and a member of the audit and finance committee of Simpson Manufacturing Co. Inc. Ken holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.B.A from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.