Leadership

Dr. Seeto is an experienced leader and has held executive leadership roles in both biotech and large pharma and across a broad range of functions. Before joining CareDx, Dr. Seeto was Chief Operating Officer at Ardelyx leading pre-launch efforts for tenapanor and corporate development where he completed a series of partnerships. Prior to this, Dr. Seeto worked at AstraZeneca/Medimmune and was a member of the MedImmune Executive Team. His responsibilities included leading corporate development and strategy, global strategic marketing and portfolio management for all therapeutic areas, as well as a country leadership role at AstraZeneca in Thailand. He started his career as a physician, during which time he performed a medical rotation in a renal transplant unit, before joining McKinsey and Company.

Abhishek became CareDx’s Vice President, Corporate Controller in August 2021. Prior to joining the Company, he spent the last 20 years at Agilent Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, in a series of finance and customer-facing roles of progressing responsibility. In his last role at Agilent as an Associate Vice President II, Controller-Sales and Marketing, he drove above market growth for a $5B business. He has extensive knowledge in driving channel strategy, expanding margins, scaling operations, and leading global teams. Mr. Jain is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Alex Johnson brings broad international business experience in pharma and clinical diagnostics. Prior to joining CareDx, Alex was Chief Operating Officer of BioGraph 55, a venture-backed immuno-oncology drug development company that uses advanced imaging analytics and machine learning to capture clinically relevant content from the tumor microenvironment. From 2009 to 2014 he was with Novartis, with roles at Novartis Diagnostics, a global provider of blood screening solutions and Novartis M&A based in Basel, Switzerland where he led acquisitions in oncology and diagnostics. Prior to Novartis Alex was with UBS Investment Bank in the Global Healthcare group. Mr. Johnson studied economics at Union College (NY) and received his M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School.

Abraham Ronai brings over 20 years of experience in the legal, compliance, and intellectual property fields with a focus on the life-science, medical device, and health care space. Before joining CareDx, Abraham spent the past 11 years at Getinge AB, a global medical technology company, holding various leadership roles, including Global General Counsel. Prior to Getinge, Abraham worked at two well-respected law firms in Manhattan and at Datascope Corp., a Nasdaq-listed medical device company. Abraham also served as a professor for patent litigation at Concord Law School. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and his Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. Abraham is Registered In-House Counsel in CA, and admitted to practice law in NY and NJ.

Marica has spent the past two decades building and leading high-performing technology and product development teams. At CareDx, Marica held roles of increasing leadership and management responsibilities and is currently accountable for strategy and operational oversight of the Cell Transplant Therapy business unit and Pharma Partnerships. Earlier in her career, Marica spearheaded the development of AlloSure®, the first analytically and clinically validated cell-free DNA test developed specifically for transplant patients. Prior to CareDx, Marica was a founding scientist at the stem cell-based drug discovery platform technology company iPierian (acquired by BMS), and its spin out True North Therapeutics (acquired by Bioverativ).

Marica completed her post-doctoral fellowship on gene regulation in stem cells at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Mickey brings over 25 years of corporate development, strategy and innovation experience in the health care delivery, health care IT and medical products sectors. Before joining CareDx, Mickey was the Senior Vice President of Research and Commercialization at Inova Health System, where he led all aspects of commercialization activities, and the President of the Inova Translational Medicine Institute, a research and development organization focused on applied genomics. Prior to Inova, he worked at AstraZeneca/MedImmune as a member of MedImmune’s Partnering & Strategy Leadership Team, as a healthcare venture capitalist and as a strategy consultant with McKinsey and Company. Mickey earned his Medical Doctor degree from the Northwestern University Medical School, his Master of Business Administration degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago.

Kashif Rathore has over 22 years of executive management experience in the healthcare and information technology industry. Before joining CareDx, Kashif was Vice President, Interoperability at Cerner Corporation, a global provider of electronic health records and population health solutions. He headed the expansion of the unit with worldwide growth in its interoperability business. Having served on the Board of Directors for CommonWell Health Alliance and Superscripts Advisory Council, he brings industry perspective that enables him to engage leaders across the industry to build alignment. Kashif holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Central Oklahoma, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Punjab. Kashif earned an Executive MBA from University of Missouri, Kansas City.

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