People in the News: Tony Serafini-Lamanna, Martin Chavez, Su

Meridian Bioscience: Tony Serafini-Lamanna

Meridian Bioscience promoted Tony Serafini-Lamanna to executive VP of diagnostics, passing responsibility of the diagnostics division from CEO Jack Kenny and making Serafini-Lamanna an officer of the company. He was previously the global VP and general manager of diagnostics, a position he held since April 2018. The promotion became effective May 18. 

Before joining Meridian, Serafini-Lamanna worked at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics as general manager for diagnostics Canada and VP of marketing for North America.

Sema4: Martin Chavez

Sema4 has appointed Martin Chavez to its board of directors. Chavez served in several senior roles at the investment bank Goldman Sachs, including chief information officer, CFO, and global cohead of the firm's securities division. He was also a member of the firm's management committee.

Chavez cofounded Kiodex and Quorum Software Systems, which provide software for the finance and oil and gas industries, respectively.In addition to Sema4, Chavez serves on the boards of Paige, an AI biomedical tech startup, and Recursion, a software-based drug discovery company. This month he was named president of the Harvard Board of Overseers and serves on the Stanford Medicine board of fellows and the Institute for Advanced Study's board of trustees.

Chavez holds a master's degree in computer science from Harvard and a doctorate in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford University.

Centogene: Sun Kim, Oved Amitay

Sun Kim will become interim chief business officer of Centogene, effective June 1. He will replace Oved Amitay, who will leave the company on May 31, until a permanent chief business officer has been appointed. Kim is currently Centogene's chief strategy and investor relations officer. Prior to that, he was head of corporate strategy at Shire, and before that, he held multiple roles in the Alcon division of Novartis. Kim holds PhD and MS degrees in chemical engineering from Stanford University.