Primary Job Title Entrepreneur In Residence Primary Organization 
Illumina Ventures
Location Danville, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Suresh Pisharody brings to Picarro a unique combination of proven marketing leadership experience in the technology industry and broad engineering expertise honed in multiple industries. Suresh was most recently the director of product marketing at Illumina Inc., the market leader in genetic analysis instrumentation, and one of the fastest growing
technology companies in the U.S. At Illumina, Suresh played a leadership role in growing the company’s genome sequencing business from virtually no presence at all in the multi-billion dollar sequencing industry to its becoming a market leader within five years. While at Illumina, Suresh launched some of the most commercially successful genetic analysis instruments in the history of the life sciences industry. Prior to Illumina, Suresh held marketing roles of increasing responsibility at Applied Biosystems (now Life Technologies), engineering positions at NASA’s Ames Research Center and management positions in the chemicals industry. Suresh has a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business.
