485 employees as of 2025/FY (-15.7% YoY). Revenue per employee is total revenue divided by headcount — a rough productivity gauge, not a per-worker pay figure.
Christian O. Henry became our President and Chief Executive Officer in September 2020. He also served as our interim Chief Financial Officer from December 2024 until March 2025. He has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2018 and was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors on March 2, 2020. Mr. Henry served as Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer of Illumina, Inc. (Illumina) from 2015 through January 2017, and previously served as Senior Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer from 2014 to 2015, Senior Vice President & General Manager Genomic Solutions from 2012 to 2014, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & General Manager Life Sciences from 2010 to 2012, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Chief Financial Officer from 2009 to 2010, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer from 2007 to 2009, and Vice President & Chief Financial Officer from 2005 to 2006. Prior to joining Illumina, Mr. Henry served as the Chief Financial Officer of Tickets.com, Inc. from 2003 to 2005. From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Henry served as Vice President, Finance & Corporate Controller of Affymetrix, Inc. (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2016). In 1997, Mr. Henry joined Nektar Therapeutics (formerly Inhale Therapeutic Systems, Inc.), as Corporate Controller, and later as its Chief Accounting Officer from 1997 to 1999. In 1996, Mr. Henry served as General Accounting Manager of Sugen, Inc. Mr. Henry began his career in 1992 at Ernst & Young LLP, where he was a Senior Accountant through 1996. Mr. Henry currently serves as a director and Chairman of the board of WAVE Life Sciences Ltd. (NASDAQ: WVE) and serves as Chairman of its compensation committee and a member of its audit committee. Mr. Henry serves as a director of Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. (NYSE: DNA) and serves as Chairman of its audit committee and a member of its compensation committee, and was also a director of CM Life Sciences III LLC from April 2021 to December 2021. Mr. Henry holds a B.A. in biochemistry and cell biology from the University of California, San Diego and an M.B.A., with a concentration in finance, from the University of California, Irvine. Mr. Christian O. Henry stepped down as President and Chief Executive Officer effective August 5, 2026.
On March 24, 2025, Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc entered into an offer letter with Jim R. Gibson to serve as its Chief Financial Officer on March 31, 2025. Mr. Gibson previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Sequoia Benefits and Insurance Services, LLC since 2023. From 2021 to 2022, Mr. Gibson served as Chief Financial Officer of Willow Innovations, Inc. and from 2019 to 2021, he was the Vice President of Finance Transformation at GoDaddy, Inc. Mr. Gibson holds a B.A. in Business Economics with Honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a licensed CPA in California (inactive). Jim R. Gibson, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, will serve as the Company's principal accounting officer, effective as of March 21, 2026.
On July 30, 2026, the Board appointed Mark Van Oene as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board, effective August 5, 2026. Mark Van Oene joined us in January 2021 as our Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Van Oene previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of Illumina, a provider of DNA sequencing systems, since 2017. After joining Illumina in 2006, Mr. Van Oene held various positions, including Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas Commercial Operations, and Vice President, Global Sales. Mr. Van Oene currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Dante Labs Inc., a global leader in genomics and precision medicine. Mr. Van Oene holds a B.S. in biochemistry from Western University.
John F. Milligan, Ph.D. has been a member of our Board of Directors since 2013 and became Chairman in September 2020. Dr. Milligan joined Gilead Sciences Inc. (Gilead) in 1990 as a research scientist and was appointed Director of Project Management and Project Team Leader for the Gilead Hoffmann-La Roche Tamiflu collaboration in 1996. In 2002, Dr. Milligan was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Gilead. He was named Gilead's Chief Operating Officer in 2007 and President in 2008. Dr. Milligan was appointed Chief Executive Officer and elected to the board of directors of Gilead in 2016. On December 31, 2018, Dr. Milligan retired as Chief Executive Officer of Gilead and resigned from the board of directors. Dr. Milligan is currently the Executive Chair of 4D Molecular Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FDMT). Dr. Milligan is the Chair of Kailera Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLRA), serves on the board of directors of TurnCare, Inc., and is the past Chair of the board of trustees of Ohio Wesleyan University. Dr. Milligan received his B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University, his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Illinois and was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Francisco.
Marshall Mohr has been a member of our Board of Directors since 2012. Mr. Mohr joined Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Intuitive Surgical), a provider of surgical robotics, in March 2006 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in July 2018. Beginning January 1, 2022, Mr. Mohr assumed the role of Executive Vice President, Global Business Services. Mr. Mohr retired from Intuitive Surgical in August 2024. Prior to joining Intuitive Surgical, Mr. Mohr served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Adaptec, Inc. Before 2003, Mr. Mohr was an audit partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he was most recently the managing partner of the firm's West Region Technology Industry Group and led its Silicon Valley accounting and audit advisory practice. In January 2026, Mr. Mohr was appointed to the board of directors of Capstan Medical Inc., a private, early-stage company. In January 2025, Mr. Mohr was appointed to the board of directors of SRI International, a nonprofit scientific research institute. In January of 2022, Mr. Mohr was appointed to the board of directors of Veeva Systems Inc. (NYSE: VEEV) and serves as its Chairman of the audit committee. Mr. Mohr served as a member of the board of directors and Chairman of the audit committee of Plantronics, Inc. (Plantronics), a global outfitter of professional-grade audio and video technology, from 2005 to 2022 when Plantronics was sold to HP Inc., and also served as a member of the board of directors and Chairman of the audit committee of Atheros Communications, Inc. (Atheros), a developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless communications products, from November 2003 to May 2011 when Atheros was sold to Qualcomm, Inc. Mr. Mohr holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance from Western Michigan University.
William Ericson has been a member of our Board of Directors since 2004. Mr. Ericson has been the Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners since 2016 where he focuses on investments in Digital Health. He has also been a Managing Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) since 2000. Mr. Ericson has also served as a director of Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2005 to 2021. Mr. Ericson holds a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.
Ms. Kathy P. Ordonez has been a member of our Board of Directors since December 2014. She served as our Chief Commercial Officer and Executive Vice President from October 2017 to October 2018. Ms. Ordonez brings more than 30 years of experience in the life sciences and diagnostics industries. From January 2012 until June 2013, Ms. Ordonez was a Senior Vice President at Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, a leading provider of diagnostic information services, where she was initially responsible for leading their R&D effort and later provided oversight to multiple businesses commercializing diagnostic products and testing services. Ms. Ordonez joined Quest Diagnostics as part of its acquisition in 2011 of Celera Corporation, a leading provider of genetic testing products for HIV resistance, cystic fibrosis and high complexity tissue transplantation. From April 2002 until May 2011, Ms. Ordonez was the Chief Executive Officer at Celera, and she founded Celera Diagnostics in December 2000. From 1985 until 2000, Ms. Ordonez held several senior positions at Hoffmann-La Roche, overseeing the formation of Roche Molecular Systems, where she served as President and Chief Executive Officer, and led the wide-scale commercial application of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology to the research, diagnostic and forensic fields. Ms. Ordonez served as a member of the board of directors of Science Mill from August 2022 to December 2025. Ms. Ordonez served as a member of the board of directors of Quidel Corporation from July 2019 to May 2022 and served on its compensation committee. Ms. Ordonez also served as a director, non-executive Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of RainDance Technologies, Inc., which was sold to Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. in February 2017. Ms. Ordonez holds a B.A. in Chemistry and honorary Doctorate of Science from Hartwick College.
Randy Livingston has been a member of our Board of Directors since 2009. He served as Vice President for Business Affairs of Stanford University from March 2001 until December 2025 and Chief Financial Officer of Stanford University from March 2001 until September 2025. In October 2017, he was also named University Liaison for Stanford Medicine and a director of Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and served in these roles until September 2025. Before joining Stanford University, Mr. Livingston served as chief financial officer for multiple technology and life science companies in Silicon Valley. Mr. Livingston also served as a director of eHealth, Inc. from 2008 to 2023 and as a director of Genomic Health, Inc. from 2004 to 2016. Mr. Livingston holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Hannah A. Valantine, M.D. has been a member of our Board of Directors since June 2021. Dr. Valantine currently serves as Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she has been a faculty member since 1987. From April 2014 to September 2020, Dr. Valantine served as Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at the National Institutes of Health, and as a Senior Investigator in the Intramural Research Program at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. From November 2004 to April 2014, Dr. Valantine was Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Leadership at Stanford. In collaboration with her colleagues at Stanford, Dr. Valantine co-invented the technology for donor derived cell-free DNA for diagnosis of transplant rejection, which is currently licensed and used to monitor patients for early detection of acute rejection. Dr. Valantine also serves as Principal and Founder of HAV LLC, a consulting company for diversity, equity and inclusion that she founded in January 2021, and as a director on the boards of BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBIO), a company that finds, develops, and delivers breakthrough medicines for genetic diseases, and CareDX (NASDAQ: CDNA), a leading precision medicine company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value healthcare solutions for transplant patients and caregivers
Effective on March 3, 2026, the Board of Directors of Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. appointed Christopher Gibson, Ph.D. to serve as a Class I director. Dr. Gibson is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company that has built one of the industry's most advanced AI-driven drug discovery platforms. Under his leadership, Recursion integrated large-scale biological data generation with machine learning to industrialize the discovery process, building a vertically integrated technology stack spanning automation, high-dimensional biology, and artificial intelligence. He led the company from inception through significant capital formation, strategic partnerships, and a successful public listing, establishing Recursion as a leader at the intersection of computation and biology.
From SEC filings, via Futu. Compensation is total reported pay for the most recent fiscal year on file, not base salary alone.
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