CM Life Sciences II and SomaLogic announced the appointment of Shaun Blakeman as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Blakeman is a financial executive with over 20 years of professional experience spanning operations, logistics, project management, and accounting and financial leadership. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Cantel Medical, a public company focused on global infection prevention and control in the endoscopy, hemodialysis water and dental spaces.

Mr. Blakeman has also served as a Senior Finance Director at Medtronic, a leader in medical technology, where he oversaw finance for multiple manufacturing sites in Medtronic's Restorative Therapies Group. Before that, he was the Vice President of Finance for Cantel, where he was the segment CFO for the company's $500 million endoscopy platform. Prior to his time at Cantel, Mr. Blakeman spent five years with IDEX in financial leadership positions of increasing responsibility, up to the Vice President of Finance for the company's diaphragm and dosing pump and water platforms. Prior to IDEX, Mr. Blakeman worked for Eaton in various finance positions.

He began his career as an officer in the United States Navy in both Surface Warfare and Engineering Duty specialties.