Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc. announced the appointment of Kirk Malloy, Ph.D. as Chair of the Companys Board of Directors . Dr. Malloy will also Chair the Boards Compensation Committee. Jeffrey Schwartz, who previously served as Board Chair, remains a member of the Board and continues to serve as Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Dr. Malloy has more than 25 years of senior management experience in life sciences and in vitro diagnostics with Illumina, Inc., Biosite, Inc. and Qiagen, Inc., and most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Verogen, Inc., until its acquisition in 2023. Throughout his career, Dr. Malloy has led market development and product development initiatives that have driven revenue growth for early-stage, commercial companies. Dr. Malloy is currently the founder and principal of BioAdvisors, LLC, where he provides strategic consulting services to life sciences, diagnostics and genomics companies.

Currently, Dr. Malloy serves on the boards of NanoString Technologies, Inc. and DermTech, Inc. as well as several private genomics tools companies. Dr. Malloy earned a B.S. in Biology &Marine Science from the University of Miami, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Marine Biology/Biochemistry from the University of Delaware. He has held post-doctoral and instructor positions at Boston University and Northeastern University.

The addition of Dr. Malloy brings the total number of directors on the Companys Board to eight.