Grail taps Genen­tech vet Jen­nifer Cook as CEO, build­ing ex­pec­ta­tions for 2018

Af­ter a cu­ri­ous se­ries of C-suite de­par­tures, Sil­i­con Val­ley’s Grail has locked in on some­one whom it trusts to lead the can­cer de­tec­tion biotech in­to com­mer­cial op­er­a­tions: Jen­nifer Cook. Cook re­places in­ter­im CEO Bill Rastet­ter, the Il­lu­mi­na ad­vi­sor who stepped in af­ter found­ing CEO Jeff Hu­ber re­signed in Au­gust.

If her re­sume is any in­di­ca­tion, Cook is here to stay. An ear­ly devo­tee to biotech, she has worked at Genen­tech pret­ty much her whole ca­reer (mi­nus a four-year stint at a start­up ear­ly on), join­ing in 1987 and mov­ing to Roche in 2013, af­ter Genen­tech had be­come a sub­sidiary.

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