Kenny Ross

Kenny is the Chief Operations & Product Officer at Seer. Prior to Seer, Kenny was VP, Factory of the Future at Illumina. Kenny’s responsibilities included Global Manufacturing Strategy, Operational Excellence, Automation, Operations Technology, Data Analytics, and Process Development, and Transfer for Consumables New Product Introduction. Prior to Illumina, Kenny was Vice President, Global Operations for the Genetic Sciences (GSD) and Clinical Next-Gen Sequencing (CSD) Divisions of Thermo Fisher Scientific, supporting annual revenue of $4B per year. Kenny also spent a number of years with increasing operational responsibility at Applied Biosystems and Life Technologies, both in the UK and the US, and had Operational responsibilities for the TaqMan, AmpliSeq, HID, and Ion Torrent product lines. Kenny has a Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from Aston University, with a focus on solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis.