Our Leadership and Board

Molly He, PhD

CEO, Co-Founder & Board Member

Molly co-founded Element Biosciences and has served as Chief Executive Officer since its inception. She has more than 20 years of experience in technology innovation and management...

Nick Scheidler, PhD

Head of Operations

Nick is a passionate leader with extensive experience building operations capabilities to launch groundbreaking genomics platforms. Over his 12 years at Illumina, Nick established...

Bryan E. Roberts, PhD

Board Member

Bryan has served on the Element Biosciences board of directors since September of 2017. He joined Venrock in 1997, and is currently a Partner based in Venrock’s Palo Alto office...

Michael Previte, PhD

CTO & Co-Founder

Michael Previte co-founded Element Biosciences and brings more than 10 years of innovation and discovery in the field of genomics. Previously, Michael was an Associate Principal Scientist...

Charles Lin, PhD

Head of Business Dev & Marketing

Charles joined Element after more than 12 years at Illumina, where he served in a variety of research and development (R&D) and business roles. Most recently, he was Associate Director...

Jim Tananbaum, MD

Board Member

Jim has served on the Element Biosciences board of directors since September of 2017. He is the founder and CEO of Foresite Capital, a US-focused healthcare investment firm with $3 billon...

Matt Kellinger, PhD

Co-Founder

Matt is a co-founder of Element Biosciences and brings a wealth of biotechnology experience to the company. He was previously at Illumina, where he served as a Staff Scientist, working on...

John Stuelpnagel, DVM, MBA

Chairman of the Board

John has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Element Biosciences since September 2017. He’s also Chairman of 10x Genomics, Inscripta, and Fabric Genomics...