GE’s chief innovation officer and GE Ventures’ CEO, Sue Siegel, has been appointed by Illumina to sit on its board of directors.

Sue Siegel, chief innovation officer (CIO) at industrial conglomerate General Electric (GE) and chief executive of its corporate venturing unit, GE Ventures, joined genetic technology provider Illumina’s board of directors last week.

Siegel, who ranked second in Global Corporate Venturing 2018 Powerlist, has been CEO of GE’s healthtech scheme, Healthymagination, since 2012, ascending to CEO of GE Ventures in 2013 to help the unit evolve from predecessor GE Capital, before eventually being promoted to CIO at its parent…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.