Rob Brainin

Rob Brainin is Chief Business Officer at Veracyte. Mr. Brainin is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of life sciences and healthcare experience, and a proven track record of using emerging technologies and data science to improve healthcare. Prior to joining Veracyte in 2021, Mr. Brainin served as Chief Executive Officer at Genuity Science, a company focused on integrating clinical and molecular data to derive insights that accelerate drug discovery and development. Prior to that, he served as Vice President and General Manager of the Life Sciences and Applied Genomics Business at Illumina, and before that as Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Genomics Solutions business of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. From 2004 to 2014, Mr. Brainin served in several executive positions at Life Technologies and its predecessor Invitrogen. Earlier in his career, Mr. Brainin was a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co., and has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Champions Oncology and the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Mr. Brainin holds a B.A. in Economics from Emory University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.