Seer, Inc. announced it has appointed Deep Nishar and Mostafa Ronaghi, Ph.D. to serve on its Board of Directors, effective February 13, 2020. Mr. Nishar is currently a Senior Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA) in Silicon Valley and brings more than 20 years of experience building and growing software and internet companies, including Google and LinkedIn. Dr. Ronaghi is the former Chief Technology Officer at Illumina, a co-founder of Grail, and a current Scientific Advisory Board member of Seer with decades of experience founding breakthrough technology companies. Mr. Nishar has more than 20 years of experience in helping build and grow software and internet businesses. Prior to joining SoftBank, Deep served as Senior Vice President of Products and User Experience at LinkedIn. He also held senior executive roles at Google and was previously the Founder of enterprise software company Patkai Networks. He currently sits on the board of directors of a number of different companies, including Relay Therapeutics and Vir Bio. Dr. Ronaghi served as Senior Vice President of Entrepreneurial Development, Senior Vice President and CTO during his decade-plus time at Illumina, where he was responsible for leading Illumina's internal research and technology, co-founded GRAIL and the Illumina Accelerator. Dr. Ronaghi has also co-founded multiple companies, including Avantome, NextBio, ParAllele Bioscience, and Pyrosequencing.
Seer, Inc. is a life sciences company. The Company is engaged in developing transformative products that open a new gateway to the proteome. Its product, the Proteograph Product Suite (Proteograph), leverages its proprietary engineered nanoparticle (NP) technology to provide unbiased, deep, rapid and large-scale access to the proteome. The Proteograph Product Suite is an integrated solution that includes consumables, an automation instrument and software. Its proprietary engineered NPs provide unbiased sampling of intact proteins across the dynamic range of the proteome, capturing molecular information at the peptide-level, including protein variants. It is focused on driving the adoption of the Proteograph by customers in the proteomics and genomics markets. The Proteograph Product Suite is an integrated solution consisting of consumables, an automation instrument, and software to perform biased, deep proteomic analysis at scale in a matter of hours.