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Management Team

NanoString’s leaders bring decades of diverse experience and a history of success. With business insight and industry expertise, these executives lead NanoString’s talented employees to create innovative products and pioneering solutions that enable our customers to have confidence in their research and work.

  • Executive Team
  • Board of Directors
William D. Young
Executive Chairman of the Board
Brad Gray
President and Chief Executive Officer
James A. Johnson
Chief Financial Officer
J. Wayne Cowens, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Wayne Burns
Senior Vice President, Operations & Administration
Barney Saunders, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President & General Manager - Life Sciences
Bruce J. Seeley
Senior Vice President & General Manager - Diagnostics
Joseph M. Beechem, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Research and Development
Mary Tedd Allen, Ph.D.
Vice President of Manufacturing
Chris Grimley
Vice President of Marketing - Life Sciences
Dale R. Levitzke
Vice President of Global Sales - Life Sciences
Gary Riordan
Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs
Kathy Surace-Smith
Vice President and General Counsel
William D. Young
Executive Chairman of the Board
Brad Gray
President and Chief Executive Officer
Jennifer Scott Fonstad
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Nicholas Galakatos, Ph.D.
Clarus Ventures
Chad Waite
OVP Venture Partners
Greg Norden
Chairman of NanoString's Audit Committee
Leroy Hood, Ph.D.
Institute for Systems Biology
Richard Mathies, Ph.D.
University of California at Berkeley
Peter Sorger, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Eric Davidson, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology