Clifford Reid

Biography
Dr. Clifford Reid has over 30 years of experience in leading start-up and growth companies that commercialize important new technologies. Dr. Reid was the founding CEO of Travera, a spinout of MIT that developed a novel live-cell cancer therapy selection test. Prior to founding Travera, he was the founding Executive Chairman of Genos Research, a consumer genomics company that developed a marketplace for genomics research data. Dr. Reid was the founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Complete Genomics (CGI), a leading developer of whole human genome DNA sequencing technologies. He took the company public (GNOM: NASDAQ) and led it through its acquisition by BGI. Prior to CGI he founded two enterprise software companies, Eloquent (ELOQ: NASDAQ, an internet video company) which was acquired by Open Text, and Verity (VRTY: NASDAQ, an enterprise search engine company) which was ultimately acquired by Hewlett-Packard. Dr. Reid is on the Visiting Committee of the Biological Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is a member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee. He is a scientific advisor to NGD, a bacterial genomics company. He earned a BS in Physics from MIT, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.