Twist Bioscience Corporation announced the appointment of Robert Werner as chief accounting officer. Mr. Werner was most recently chief accounting officer at Invitae Inc., where his responsibilities included revenue accounting, corporate accounting, payroll, equity administration, treasury, cost accounting, external reporting, technical accounting and internal audit. He also built out the accounting function to support the growth of the company.

During his time at Invitae, the company grew from $68 million in revenue to $516 million in revenue. Prior to Invitae, Mr. Werner served as vice president of finance and corporate controller at Proteus Digital Health. He previously served as corporate controller and principal accounting officer at CardioDx and as Corporate Controller at Bloom Energy.

He held a series of roles of increasing responsibility at Spansion Inc. (a spinoff of Advanced Micro Devices). Mr. Werner is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Master's of accountancy in professional accounting and a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management.