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A biotech industry veteran, Yaron Hakak recently served as director of business development at Illumina, where he supported the company’s research and applied markets for NGS. Prior to Illumina, he was director of business development at Affymetrix, focused on corporate activities related to its genomics and proteomic product portfolios. Dr. Hakak also held positions at Arena Pharmaceuticals, where he managed genomics research for target identification and led discovery biology programs.

Brandon brings 25 years of financial experience to Jumpcode across various industries, including life sciences, medical device and genomics services. Most recently, he was CFO at Genome Medical, a genomic telehealth provider, where he led all aspects of finance. Prior to Genome Medical, Brandon was VP of Finance at Illumina, a genomic tools company, Chief Financial Officer at Sotera Wireless, a medical device start-up, and VP of Finance at Inverness Medical Innovations (formerly Biosite), a point-of-care diagnostics company acquired by Abbott. He received his bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Jonathan Bell joined Jumpcode with deep commercial experience in driving the growth of disruptive genomic technologies. He has held positions with progressively increasing responsibilities in the areas of sales, product marketing and regional marketing for life sciences companies, including Affymetrix, Illumina and 10x Genomics. Jonathan most recently served as a Vice President for Celsee (acquired by Bio-Rad).

Kerri McWeeny joined Jumpcode from Illumina, where she most recently served as a Senior Director in marketing. Kerri joined Illumina in 2012, holding leadership roles in global pricing strategy, marketing strategy and communications throughout her tenure. Prior to Illumina, she held commercial leadership roles at MO BIO Laboratories and GenVault Corp, as well as research and development roles at Motorola Life Sciences and Abbott Laboratories.

Jon Armstrong joined Jumpcode Genomics as Vice President of Research and Development. Most recently, Jon served as Chief Scientific Officer for Cofactor Genomics, a predictive immune modeling company, which he cofounded. In this role, Jon led product launches for more than a dozen genomics solutions for the research and clinical space. Prior to Cofactor Genomics, Jon spent nearly a decade in Elaine Mardis’ lab at The Washington University Genome Institute, where he helped develop technologies in microarray, next-generation sequencing, molecular biology and cancer genetics.