Lisa Xu

Dr Lisa (Licen) Xu, Venture Partner @Tailwinds Venture, Chief Commercial Officer of FlashDx Inc, a syndromic molecular Dx platform company (US/China), independent Board Member for Ribbon BioLab (Austria) & Burning Rock Biotech (US/China). She was Vice President at Roche Diagnostics for NGS Sequencing systems, VP of Enterprise Informatics at Illumina, and General Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Lisa is a multi-disciplined leader with extensive experience in managing businesses and product development, including business operations, strategic marketing, product and P&L management. Her current focus is in product strategy and commercialization effort, leveraging her over 20 years experience in life science/MedTech and her technical expertise in instrument, software, consumable and reagent. She is also coaching entrepreneurs the product development process from concept to commercialization.

Lisa earned her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Master’s Degree of Biophysics from Tsinghua University, Beijing. She obtained her Ph.D of Molecular Biology at University of Zurich, Switzerland. She earned Aresty Scholar at Wharton School.