Board of Directors

Francis deSouza

Francis deSouza was appointed CEO of Illumina in 2016 and is responsible for directing all aspects of company strategy, planning, and operations. He initially joined the company as President in 2013, and led Illumina’s business units and core functions responsible for envisioning, developing and producing the company’s products.

Previously, deSouza served as President of Products and Services at Symantec Corporation, where he was responsible for driving the vision for the company’s market-leading portfolio and served in a variety of executive roles. He joined Symantec through the acquisition of IMlogic, where he was co-founder and CEO.

Prior to joining IMlogic, deSouza was co-founder and CEO of Flash Communications, a provider of corporate instant messaging that was acquired by Microsoft. Following the acquisition, he joined Microsoft and led the team responsible for the development of the company’s enterprise real-time collaboration offerings. Currently, he is a member of the board of directors for The Walt Disney Company.

Francis deSouza received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Frances Arnold, PhD

Dr. Arnold has been a director since 2016. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she has been on the faculty since 1986. Dr. Arnold received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018) for pioneering directed enzyme evolution; she has used those methods to create enzymes for alternative energy, chemicals, and medicine. She co-chairs the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. She received the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2011, the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Obama in 2013, and the Millennium Technology Prize in 2016. She has been elected to all three US National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering, and was appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 2019. Dr. Arnold is a co-inventor on 62 issued US patents.

Dr. Arnold currently serves as a director of Alphabet Inc. and the following privately held companies: of Provivi, a agriculture and pest management company, Aralez Bio, a bioenginieering company, Resilience, a biopharmaceutical manufacturing company, Generate Biomedicines, a drug generation company, and Altos Labs, a biotechnology company. Dr. Arnold received her B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. She chairs the Advisory Panel of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships in Science and Engineering and is a Trustee of the Gordon Research Conferences.

Caroline Dorsa

Ms. Dorsa has been a director since January 2017. Ms. Dorsa served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated, a NYSE-listed diversified energy company, from April 2009 until her retirement in October 2015, and served on its Board of Directors from 2003 to April 2009. From February 2008 to April 2009, she served as Senior Vice President, Global Human Health, Strategy and Integration at Merck & Co., Inc., a NYSE-listed pharmaceutical company. From November 2007 to January 2008, Ms. Dorsa served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Gilead Sciences, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed life sciences company. From February 2007 to November 2007, she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Avaya, Inc., a NYSE-listed telecommunications company. From 1987 to January 2007, Ms. Dorsa held various financial and operational positions at Merck & Co., Inc., including Vice President and Treasurer, Executive Director of U.S. Customer Marketing, and Executive Director of U.S. Pricing and Strategic Planning.

Ms. Dorsa also serves on the Board of Directors of Biogen Inc., Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. and Duke Energy. From 2016 to 2021, she also served on the Board of Trustees of the Goldman Sachs ETF Trust, the Goldman Sachs MLP and Energy Renaissance Fund and the Goldman Sachs MLP Income Opportunities Fund, investment funds within the Goldman Sachs fund complex.

Ms. Dorsa received her M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Colgate University.

Robert S. Epstein, MD

Dr. Epstein has been a director since November 2012. Dr. Epstein is an epidemiologist who worked in public health and academia before joining the private sector. From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Epstein was Chief R&D Officer and President of Medco-UBC, a 2,400 person global research organization focused on conducting personalized medicine, health economics, drug safety, outcomes, and comparative effectiveness research on behalf of the biopharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics industries. Prior to this role, Dr. Epstein was Medco’s Chief Medical Officer for 13 years, where he led formulary development, clinical guideline development, drug information services, personalized medicine program development, and client analytics and reporting. Dr. Epstein is also the former President of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), and has served on the boards of directors of the Drug Information Association (DIA) and the International Society of Quality of Life. Dr. Epstein serves on the Board of Directors of Fate Therapeutics, Inc. and Veracyte, Inc. Dr. Epstein has published more than 75 peer-reviewed medical articles and book chapters and serves as a reviewer for several influential medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association).

Dr. Epstein received his M.D. and B.S. in biomedical science from the University of Michigan and an M.S. in preventative medicine from the University of Maryland.

Gary S. Guthart, PhD

Gary S. Guthart, Ph.D. has been director since December 2017. Dr. Guthart is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Intuitive Surgical, a global leader in the field of robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery. He joined Intuitive Surgical in April 1996 and has served as the Chief Executive Officer since January 2010. In July 2007, he was promoted to President, having assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer in February 2006. Prior to joining Intuitive Surgical, Dr. Guthart was part of the core team developing foundation technology for computer enhanced-surgery at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute). Dr. Guthart served as a member of the Board of Directors of Affymetrix, Inc. from May 2009 until its acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. in March 2016.

Dr. Guthart received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology.

Philip Schiller

Mr. Schiller has been a director since July 2016. Mr. Schiller is currently an Apple Fellow at Apple Inc. He rejoined Apple Inc. in April 1997 and began serving as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing in February 2002 as a member of Apple's executive team responsible for the company's product marketing, developer relations, business marketing, education marketing, international marketing, and App Store programs. He has helped Apple create and market some of the best-selling products in the world including the Mac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, the App Store, Apple TV, and the Apple Watch. Prior to rejoining Apple, Mr. Schiller was Vice President of Product Marketing at Macromedia, Inc. from 1995 to 1997 and Director of Product Marketing at FirePower Systems, Inc. from 1993 to 1995. Prior to that, Mr. Schiller spent six years at Apple in various marketing positions.

Mr. Schiller received a B.S. in biology from Boston College.

Sue Siegel

Sue Siegel has been a director since February 2019. She has driven game-changing ideas and powered companies that advance industries and improve lives for more than three decades. With vast experience across industries, she is on the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and is helping companies identify and seize transformative digital opportunities.

Most recently, as GE's Chief Innovation Officer and CEO of GE Ventures, Sue oversaw investments in startups, created and scaled new companies, and commercialized GE's intellectual property. She also led strategy planning and oversaw the global marketing function.

Before joining GE, Sue was a Silicon Valley-based healthcare and life sciences VC, leading investments in precision medicine, digital health, and life science tools. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Sue led Affymetrix as President and board member, where she led the company's transformation from a pre-revenue startup to a global, multi-billion-dollar market cap genomics leader. Sue also held executive leadership roles at Amersham, DuPont, and Bio-Rad after transitioning to a corporate career from early academic work in molecular biology and biochemistry.

Sue also serves on the boards of Align Technologies (ALGN), Nevro (NVRO), the Kaiser Family Foundation, and is the Chair of MIT's The Engine. Additionally, she serves on the advisory boards for Mass General Brigham's Innovation Growth Board, University of California Innovation Council, RAND Health Care and the U.K. National Health Services Digital Academy. She co-chairs Stanford Medicine Board of Fellows.

Sue was a founding representative board member of NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and served on President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative Working Group.

A leader in technology and business, Sue has been recognized in Fortune's "34 Leaders Who Are Changing Health Care" and as one of "The 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley" by Silicon Valley Business Journal. She is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow and is a featured "Multiplier" in the bestselling book: "Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter."

Ms. Siegel holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico and a M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Boston University Medical School.

John W. Thompson

Chair of the Board

John W. Thompson has been a director since 2017. He brings executive leadership experience having served as chief executive officer roles at Virtual Instruments and Symantec as well as 28 years of prior leadership experience at IBM where he held senior roles in sales, marketing, software development and as general manager of IBM Americas. He is lead independent director of the board at Microsoft and has served on the corporate boards of Symantec, NIPSCO (Northern Indiana Public Service Company), Fortune Brands, Seagate Technologies, and United Parcel Service (UPS). Mr. Thompson is a member of the board of trustees for the Wetlands America Trust and formerly a member of the national board of Teach for America.

In addition, he has served on several government commissions including the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, and the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security and Technology.

He received his B.A. in business administration from Florida A&M University and M.S. in management science from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Scott Gottlieb, MD

Dr. Gottlieb has been a director since February 2020. Dr. Gottlieb is a physician and served as the 23rd Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019. His work focuses on advancing public health through developing and implementing innovative approaches to improving medical outcomes, reshaping healthcare delivery, and expanding consumer choice and safety. He is currently a Special Partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates and a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and he serves as a director of Pfizer, Aetion, Tempus Labs, National Resilience and the Mount Sinai Medical System. Dr. Gottlieb held several roles in the public and private sectors prior to serving as FDA Commissioner, including serving as a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates from 2007 to 2017. Dr. Gottlieb was previously the FDA's Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs from 2005 to 2007, as well as a senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner from 2003 to 2004. He was also a senior advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2004. Dr. Gottlieb has advised the states of Massachusetts, Maryland, and Montana on the Covid response as a member of state advisory boards. He is a contributor to CNBC and CBS Face the Nation.

Dr. Gottlieb received a B.A. in economics from Wesleyan University and his M.D. from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.