Twist Bioscience Corporation announced the promotion of Patrick Finn, Ph.D. to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer. Dr. Finn previously served as chief commercial officer of Twist Bioscience. Dr. Finn will continue to oversee the commercial team, headed by strong sales leaders in the Americas, Europe and APAC, and will now extend his scope to include operations.

Dr. Finn joined Twist in 2015 to build the company's sales force in advance of the launch of its commercial synthetic DNA products. In 2019 he was promoted to chief commercial officer, responsible for global commercialization of all products in addition to commercial development activities. He joined Twist from Enzymatics (now QIAGEN), where he was vice president of sales, leading commercial activities for North America and Europe.

Prior to Enzymatics, he held positions of increasing responsibility, including director of business development at Agilent Technologies, director of product development for Beckman Coulter, and multiple technical roles in product development within Invitrogen and GE Healthcare/Amersham International. Dr. Finn serves on the Board of Directors at ONI and previously served on the scientific advisory boards of Lasergen and Enzymatics. He holds a Ph.D. in nucleic acid chemistry from Southampton University and a BSc Hons in Chemistry from Heriot-Watt University.