Berkeley Lights, Inc. announced that Rolando Brawer, Ph.D. has been named executive vice president, Strategy & Corporate Development, effective immediately. In this newly created role, Dr. Brawer will lead Berkeley Lights' strategy and corporate development functions and support the Company's growth strategy through identification, assessment and execution of potential mergers, acquisitions, investments, licensing agreements, joint ventures and more. Dr. Brawer is an accomplished corporate development executive with robust scientific expertise, having most recently served as vice president, Science & Technology, Alliances & Ventures at Danaher Corporation.

In this role, he built a corporate function dedicated to co-founding companies with external inventors, providing capital and expertise to originate early-stage ventures in the life sciences field. Prior to Danaher Corporation, Dr. Brawer held several positions at life sciences companies including as vice president, Corporate Development, at Exact Sciences Corporate Development and Genomic Health. Dr. Brawer's experience also includes leading Thermo Fisher Scientific's global strategy for out-licensing and commercial supply for the company's Life Science Solutions Group.

He was responsible for more than $300 million of annual worldwide licensing revenue, growing 10-15% annually. Dr. Brawer started his corporate development career at Invitrogen/Life Technologies. Dr. Brawer earned a B.S. and M.S. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of Buenos Aires, Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology from the University of Buenos Aires -Medical School, and MBA from the University of Florida.