Chitra Kotwaliwale

Dr. Chitra Kotwaliwale joined Natera in 2019 and has held multiple roles across product management and strategy, overseeing product management for Natera’s Women’s Health business, managing overall strategic planning and PMO for Engineering/R&D, and coordinating global product strategy.

Prior to joining Natera, Dr. Kotwaliwale served as Director of Product Marketing at Agilent Technologies, where she managed the company’s product management team responsible for target enrichment content products for rare diseases and oncology and develop commercialization plans for emerging products. She previously served as Senior Product Manager of Sequencing at Complete Genomics, and prior to that as a Computational Biologist at Adaptive Biotechnologies (formerly Squenta, Inc.). Dr. Kotwaliwale holds a B.A. in Biology from the College of Wooster and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center.