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The board’s resignation letter was signed by all seven independent directors, including Sequoia’s Botha, as well as Patrick Chung, head of Xfund, who was among 23andMe’s earliest investors ...
All of 23andMe's independent directors resigned from its board this week, a rare move that marks the latest challenge for the genetic-testing company. The resignations follow drawn-out ...
(Reuters) - Genetic testing firm 23andMe Chief Executive Officer Anne Wojcicki would no longer be open to considering third-party takeover proposals for the company, a regulatory filing showed on ...
Anne E. Wojcicki (/ w uː ˈ tʃ ɪ t s k i / woo-CHITS-kee; [2] born July 28, 1973) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe.She founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza.
In October 2023, Wired reported that a sample of data points from 23andMe accounts were exposed on BreachForums, a black-hat hacking crime forum. [1]23andMe confirmed to TechCrunch that because of an opt-in feature that allows DNA-related relatives to contact each other, the true number of people exposed was 6.9 million, nearly half of 23andMe’s 14 million reported customers.
He is a member of the Global CEO Council (GCC) of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, [23] and a member of the Business Council in the USA. [24] He was a board member of the Business Council of Australia from November 2019 [25] until his resignation in September 2020. [26]
Genetic testing firm 23andMe said on Monday it is reducing about 40%, or 200 employees, from its workforce and discontinuing further development of all its therapies as part of a restructuring ...
23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki co-founded the company in 2006 with biologist Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza, who previously worked at the now-defunct Perlegen Sciences, which was a biotech startup that ...