Rob Brainin is a global life sciences and healthcare executive with over twenty years of industry experience, with a strong focus on genomics and innovation. He currently serves as the CEO of WuXi NextCODE. In prior work experiences, Rob served as a General Manager across a variety of life sciences areas during his roles with Illumina, Life Technologies, Invitrogen, and Thermo Fisher.

His ambition is to optimize genomic technologies and information into real-life solutions, which has current and developing potential applications within healthcare. As health care systems, clinicians, researchers, therapeutic developers, foundations, patient families, and individuals seek to improve areas of genomic understanding, Rob seeks to help them take complex genomic information and make it actionable in a meaningful way.

He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Tumor Foundation, a foundation focused on driving research and seeking cures for Neurofibromatosis, a rare genetic disease that impacts 1 in 3,000 people, including his own daughter. Rob holds an undergraduate degree in Economics (with honors) from Emory University and a J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School.