Mark Nibbe

Mark is an engineering leader with 25 years in biotech and life sciences, developing consumable products and manufacturing processes and tools, building scalable team structures, and establishing technology management strategies to realize the extensive opportunities of new genetic-based technologies. He has held a variety of roles in product development and operations. Prior to joining Molecular Assemblies, Mark was Senior Director, New Product Introduction at Illumina.

At Illumina, Mark built and led teams of engineers and scientists, to develop and transfer new consumable products into manufacturing globally with responsibility for design, operational readiness, manufacturability, and process and equipment development. He played key roles in developing an oligonucleotide synthesis platform and end-to-end manufacturing process capable of producing more than 10 million oligos per year, and developing and transferring DNA sequencing and microarray consumable products to high-volume manufacturing. Prior to Illumina, Mark was a bioengineer at Aurora Biosciences, where he developed a picoliter dispensing platform for an ultrahigh-throughput drug candidate screening system.

He received his B.S. in bioengineering from UC San Diego and is an author of multiple patents and publications.