Linda Avey

Board Member at Stanford Medicine

Linda Avey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Precise.ly, a personal health platform designed to close the information gap between health experts and consumers. By matching research and clinical insights to specific genetic markers, Precise.ly delivers targeted information to individuals, with the mission of expediting the translation of relevant medical knowledge and facilitating Precision Health.

In 2006, Linda pioneered the field of consumer genetics with the co-founding of 23andMe, a leading personal genetic testing service. Previously, she spent 20 years in sales and business development in the biomolecular research industry. She helped develop genetics research programs for Affymetrix and Perlegen Sciences, leading to the first genome-wide association study of Parkinson's disease.