Executive team
Vance Vanier, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Vanier has spent the last decade of his career dedicated to prevention and personalized medicine. After working as an emergency physician on the front lines of medicine and seeing the overwhelming need for new preventive technologies, Dr. Vanier became a partner in the life sciences practice at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV). Recognizing the early promise of preventive genomics, he joined Navigenics in 2008 as the company’s Chief Medical Officer. More
Amy DuRoss, Vice President of Policy and Business Affairs
Amy DuRoss served as chief of staff for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, established in 2004 by the passage of Proposition 71, which provides $3 billion in funding for stem cell research in California. More
Sean George, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer
Before joining Navigenics, Dr. George held numerous posts at Affymetrix, Inc., most recently senior vice president of marketing, responsible for the company's marketing, corporate communications, product management and customer relationship management divisions. Dr. George also served as vice president of life science research at Affymetrix, leading the company's $200 million-dollar academic business in North America, Europe, Japan and China. More
Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D., Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
Dietrich Stephan is a human geneticist on the faculty of the Translational Genomics Research Institute and chairman of the National Institutes of Health Neuroscience Microarray Consortium. He has identified genes that predispose to disorders such as autism, exercise-induced heart attacks and sudden infant death syndrome, and contributed to understanding a multitude of common disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. More
Denise Thomas, Chief Marketing Officer
Ms. Thomas has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and business management. She was formerly executive vice president and chief marketing officer for LesConcierges, a global loyalty and lifestyle services firm, and founder of OffRoad Capital, transforming a pioneering idea into a Web-driven marketplace that attracted more than 7,000 member investors with a net worth of $40 billion. More