Paige Announces Executive Leadership Appointments
January 12 2022 - 10:05AM
Business Wire
Andy Moye, Ph.D., to serve as Chief Executive
Officer and Jill Stefanelli, Ph.D., to serve as President and Chief
Business Officer
Paige, the global leader in AI-based diagnostic
software in pathology, today announced that it has appointed Andy
Moye, Ph.D., as Chief Executive Officer and Jill Stefanelli, Ph.D.,
as President and Chief Business Officer.
Dr. Moye most recently served as Chief Commercial Officer at
Paige, where he led the company’s clinical sales and commercial
strategy, including the U.S. launch of Paige Prostate, the first
and only AI-based pathology product to receive FDA approval for in
vitro diagnostic (IVD) use in detecting cancer in prostate
biopsies. Previously, Dr. Moye served as Head of Commercial
Operations in North America and Latin America for the Digital and
Computational Pathology division of Philips, delivering significant
growth in both markets for the emerging business. Dr. Moye has also
served in executive roles at leading healthcare companies including
Ontada, a division of McKesson, Caris Life Sciences, and WaferGen
Bio-systems, now part of Takara Bio.
“As we continue to deliver on the promise of AI in cancer
diagnostics and drug development, I am driven by Paige’s unwavering
commitment to bring products that can ultimately result in better
patient care,” said Dr. Moye. “I look forward to working with our
founders Dr. Thomas Fuchs and Dr. David Klimstra and our stellar
team to support our purpose and mission as Paige enters its next
phase of commercial growth.”
Dr. Stefanelli served most recently as Chief Precision Medicine
Officer at Paige where she led the company’s strategic partnerships
with life science companies and biomarker development strategy.
Combined, these efforts are pioneering the potential of building
upon diagnostic AI to potentially predict improved response to drug
mechanisms. Prior to joining Paige, she served as Senior Vice
President of Partnerships at Invitae by way of acquisition of
ArcherDX, where she led global Companion Diagnostic partnerships
with pharmaceutical companies to improve how cancer and genetically
driven diseases are diagnosed and treated. Previously, she was at
Thermo Fisher Scientific establishing the first of many Companion
Diagnostic programs for solid tumors including lung cancer
following business roles at Roche Diagnostics and Pacific
Biosciences. Prior to joining industry, Dr. Stefanelli was Senior
Scientist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Animal
Disease Laboratory.
“Following on our landmark FDA approval last year, Paige’s
AI-enabled technologies have the potential to transform digital
pathology and drug development approaches,” said Dr. Stefanelli.
“This is an exciting moment in Paige’s history and I am excited to
lead and work alongside our team to position Paige as a leading
partner for biopharmaceutical companies in pursuit of better
understanding of drug mechanisms driving towards more targeted
therapies for patients.”
“We are excited to welcome Andy and Jill into their new roles on
the executive leadership team,” said Kenan Turnacioglu, Ph.D.,
Chair of the Board of Directors at Paige. “Andy and Jill have been
integral in all facets of our business from the global deployment
of our class-leading diagnostic software to helping
biopharmaceutical companies harness computational pathology to
enable the progression and success of their pipeline programs.
Their leadership experience and know-how across the diagnostics and
life science industries will be instrumental as Paige looks to
expand its business in building technology that can ultimately save
lives.”
The leadership appointments build upon a year of record growth
for Paige. In 2021, Paige completed a $125 million Series C
financing round to accelerate the transformation of digital
pathology, announced several new partnerships with leading
laboratories and scanner companies and deployed its digital
pathology in global markets.
“Andy and Jill are proven business leaders who have been central
to Paige’s commercial growth and corporate strategy,” said Jim
Breyer, CEO of Breyer Capital, Founding Investor and Board Member
at Paige. “We are confident that they will propel Paige to new
heights and look forward to working closely with them as Paige
advances its world-class AI technology to address cancers and other
applications.”
About Paige Paige was founded in 2017 by Thomas Fuchs,
Dr.Sc., David Klimstra, M.D., and colleagues from Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). The company builds computational
pathology products designed so patients and their care teams can
make effective, more informed treatment decisions. With this new
class of AI-based technologies positioned to drive the future of
diagnostics, Paige created a platform to deliver this novel
technology to pathologists to transform their workflow and increase
diagnostic confidence and productivity. Paige’s products deliver
insights to pathologists and oncologists so they can arrive
efficiently at more precise diagnoses for patients. Paige is the
first company to receive FDA approval for an AI-based digital
pathology product.
For additional information, please visit: https://www.paige.ai,
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