Biography
Jacob Thaysen is Chief Executive Officer of Illumina. Prior to joining the company in 2023, Thaysen served as president of the Life Sciences and Applied Markets Group and Diagnostic and Genomics Group at Agilent; corporate vice president of RD at Dako; and management consultant at Copenhagen Consultancy Company (now Bain Co). Early in his career, he was founder and chief technology officer of Cantion, a research and defense application development company based in Denmark. Thaysen is Chairman of the ALDA Board (Analytical, Life Science and Diagnostic Association) and is a San Diego Chapter member of the American Cancer Societys CEOs Against Cancer. Thaysen holds an MSc and PhD in physics from the Technical University of Denmark.