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Svilen Tzonev

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Sr Director, Technology Management at Roche Diagnostics, Chief Technology Office
📍 Pleasanton, California, United States

Svilen is a senior director at Roches Chief Technology Office, focused on identifying and integrating technologies that will drive the future of healthcare. With a Ph. D. and an MBA, his career spans technology scouting, business development, and bioinformatics. Colleagues describe him as creative, focused, and hard-working.

He has deep roots in both academia and the corporate world, with a Ph. D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and significant career milestones in the San Francisco Bay Areas biotech industry.

Unique fact: Svilen was involved in the development and FDA 510k clearance of a pioneering droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) platform.

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Experience
30 Years
Current Role
Sr Director, Technology Management
Job Level
Senior
Location
Pleasanton, California, United States
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AI in Healthcare
His current role explicitly involves harnessing artificial intelligence and pervasive networks to innovate within healthcare and diagnostics.
Technology Commercialization
His career demonstrates a consistent focus on bridging the gap between scientific research and clinical deployment, from startups to large corporations.
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Career

Work history

2018
Sr Director, Technology Management
Roche Diagnostics, Chief Technology Office
2014 - 2018
Director Business Development
Bio-Rad Laboratories
10-2011 - 2014
Head of Computational Biology
Bio-Rad Laboratories
2011 - 2011
Sr Director of Bioinformatics
QuantaLife, Inc.
2009 - 2011
Sr Director of Operations
Complete Genomics Inc.
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Education
2008 - 2009
MBA
Saint Mary's College of California
1991 - 1996
Ph.D.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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