BICO announced that it has added Susan Tousi to its Board of Directors. Tousi has spent nearly a decade at Illumina, where she currently leads the global commercial organization. Tousi was approved unanimously during an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of the Board of Directors. Tousi has been with Illumina since 2012, and previously led the product development organization as Chief Product Officer. During that time, she was responsible for global engineering, consumables, sequencing applications, IVD, software and informatics development efforts as well as overseeing numerous key product launches and leading the acquisition of Edico Genomics, BlueBee, and Enancio. Susan Tousi brings more than 25 years of R&D and business leadership experience at Fortune 100 technology companies, and within the life sciences industry. Prior to Illumina, Susan Tousi held leadership positions at Eastman Kodak and Hewlett-Packard. Susan Tousi has received numerous awards in business and technology including being elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 and being named one of the 50 Top Diverse Leaders by the California Diversity Council in 2020.