TWST - Leadership updates

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST), a core mid-cap growth equity, today announced the appointment of Trynka Shineman Blake to its board of directors. She will also serve as a member of the audit committee. Ms. Shineman Blake most recently served as chief executive officer of Vistaprint, a Cimpress company, and brings nearly three decades of experience across multiple strategic areas including corporate governance, customer experience, digital transformation and global marketing. "Trynka is an accomplished global leader with a proven track record of driving profitable growth and innovation of custom products at scale," said Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist Bios

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced the appointment of Mike Fero, Ph.D., as chief information officer. Dr. Fero brings more than 30 years of experience leading startups, developing commercial software, researching biology and physics and working in fast-paced deep-tech businesses. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241008118663/en/Mike Fero, Ph.D., CIO of Twist Bioscience (Photo: Business Wire) "Mike's extensive background in building and configuring scalable enterprise softwar

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced the appointment of Adam Laponis as chief financial officer. Mr. Laponis brings experience across small cap and Fortune 50 companies along with a track record of collaborating across teams to drive profitable growth. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240105333128/en/Adam Laponis, chief financial officer of Twist Bioscience (Photo: Business Wire) "Adam's deep financial acumen and strategic planning expertise across diverse businesses make him

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced the appointment of Mark Buck as senior vice president, operations. Mr. Buck brings experience improving manufacturing efficiency and driving revenue and margin through managing supply chain and operations, including planning, quality, procurement and logistics. "Building on the foundation of his time serving in the United State Marine Corps and drawing from military efficiency, Mark has established a career in industry developing and optimizing operational processes and requirements that enable scale for multiple

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced the appointment of Chet Gandhi as chief information officer. Mr. Gandhi brings a wealth of experience in leading and executing software and information technology strategies to enable the growth of global public and private companies. "With a strong track record of success, Chet's expertise will play a crucial role in driving automation and supporting Twist's expansion efforts as we strive to grow our customer base from over three thousand to over one hundred thousand," said Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-f

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced the appointment of Robert Werner as chief accounting officer. "Rob has a proven track record of leading corporate and technical accounting, including for global companies as they grow in revenue," said Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience. "He will be an invaluable addition as Twist continues to gain market share and execute against our plan to achieve adjusted EBITDA breakeven for the core and biopharma businesses at the close of the fiscal fourth quarter of 2024." "I have spent the

BigHat Biosciences, a biotechnology company designing safer, more effective next-generation antibody therapies for patients using machine learning and synthetic biology, today announced that Rob Chess has been elected to BigHat's board of directors. Rob brings valuable experience in corporate biotech leadership and business strategy, from having led innovative and diverse teams from inception to successful exits to serving on the boards of multiple private and public life sciences companies. "We look forward to leveraging Rob's deep expertise in drug discovery and development to accelerate our work creating better antibody therapies for patients," said Mark DePristo, PhD., BigHat's CEO and

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced the appointment of Steffen Hellmold to the newly created position of senior vice president, business development, data storage. "We have made significant technological advances in our DNA data storage division and are now focused on laying the foundation for commercialization of this disruptive and important storage solution. The addition of Steffen to the team will help to define our commercialization strategy and build important relationships as we move towards more accessible DNA data storage solutions," commen

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced the appointment of Dennis Cho as senior vice president, general counsel and chief ethics and compliance officer. Mr. Cho brings more than 25 years of corporate legal experience, most of which has been in the biotech industry. "Dennis is a giant of biopharma deals with a proven track record in, and commitment to, the biotech industry. He has provided counsel on all types of transactions and collaborations, which makes him ideal for the role at Twist," commented Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced it appointed Melissa Starovasnik, Ph.D. to its board of directors. Dr. Starovasnik most recently served as Senior Scientific Advisor, Research at Genentech, Inc. and brings nearly three decades of experience in protein and antibody drug discovery and development. "Melissa's extensive leadership and scientific experience will be valuable to Twist as we leverage our DNA platform to support our broad base of customers across the synthetic biology and biopharmaceutical industries," said Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO a