Jarrod Borkat
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, HEAD OF MARKETING & PORTFOLIO OPERATIONS
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, HEAD OF MARKETING & PORTFOLIO OPERATIONS
Jarrod Borkat brings 22 years of global sales, marketing and business development experience to CareDx. Prior to joining CareDx in 2021, Jarrod served as vice president of corporate strategy at Emergent BioSolutions, a $1 billion life sciences company focused on developing vaccines and therapeutics for public health threats. While in this role, Jarrod also served on the Maryland Governor’s Life Science Advisory Board and was a board director for BioHealth Innovation and the Maryland Technology Council. Before Emergent, Jarrod held several leadership positions at MedImmune/AstraZeneca, including portfolio management, business development & licensing and government, non-government organizations and academic strategic partnerships. He spent the first half of his career at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, where he started as a pharmaceutical sales representative and rose through the marketing ranks to become the U.S. commercial lead for BI’s HIV franchise and global marketing lead for its CNS franchise. Jarrod is recognized in the life sciences industry for speaking at conferences throughout the nation, including SXSW, AUTM, BIO, and The BioHealth Capital Region Forum. Jarrod graduated from University of Georgia with a bachelor’s in biology and has an MBA from Kennesaw State University.
Pauline Callinan, PhD
VICE PRESIDENT, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
VICE PRESIDENT, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Pauline brings over 15 years of business development and licensing experience in the biopharmaceutical and academic tech transfer sectors. Before joining CareDx, Pauline was the Vice President of Business Development & Strategy for Sensei Biotherapeutics. Prior to Sensei Bio, she worked for AstraZeneca/MedImmune in the Partnering and Strategy Group, and Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer, as Portfolio Director, Life Sciences. Before that, Pauline was a post-doc at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she studied the epigenetics of human disease. She has published a book chapter, review articles, and first-authored publications in peer reviewed journals.
Pauline holds a PhD degree in biochemistry from Louisiana State University, and a BSc in human biology with honors from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom.
Hal Gibson
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC PARTNERING
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC PARTNERING
Hal Gibson brings 22 years of sales, marketing, and business development experience in transplant diagnostics to CareDx. Prior to CareDx, Hal was at One Lambda, Inc., where he was a leader in launching and driving early clinical research and commercial adoption of single antigen bead technology for detection of anti-HLA donor specific antibodies. Post-acquisition of One Lambda by Thermo Fisher Diagnostics, he served as a senior leader in its Transplant Diagnostics business, where he helped drive clinical strategy and business development. Hal received a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Tampa.
Julian Husbands, MD
VICE PRESIDENT, COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS - TESTING SERVICES
VICE PRESIDENT, COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS - TESTING SERVICES
Julian has more than two decades of experience spanning the healthcare spectrum, as both a clinician and through his work in multiple corporate functions with different types of companies. At Apria Healthcare, he led the creation and execution of the most successful initiative ever at Apria — a COPD clinical management program that grew to over $200M annually in five years with a 60% reduction in readmissions. At Edwards Life sciences, he had strategic and line management responsibilities within the Critical Care and Surgical Heart Valve businesses. Julian’s background also includes management consulting with McKinsey and Company, and he trained as a general surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania. Julian received his Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ashish Kothari, MD
VICE PRESIDENT, MEDICAL AFFAIRS
VICE PRESIDENT, MEDICAL AFFAIRS
Ashish Kothari has more than 20 years of experience in clinical development, medical affairs, strategy and business development that spans across academia, industry, and investment management. Ashish started his academic career as a spine surgeon and managed patients and taught medical students for 10 years. Following that, he held multiple leadership roles in strategy, medical affairs, and clinical development across cell therapy, oncology, neurology, infectious disease, autoimmunity, and transplant, including roles at CareDx, Genentech/Roche, McKinsey, and Royalty Pharma. He cites CareDx’s commitment to transplant patients, focus on innovation, can-do attitude, and singular focus on improving transplant patient outcomes as the elements that fuel his passion to work with his amazing team to drive the science, enhance the standards of medical practice, and ultimately, improve patients’ lives.
Ashish conducted research in tissue engineering and cell therapy at the Harvard Medical School and MIT’s Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program. He earned an MBA from the MIT-Sloan School of Management, where his thesis focused on the impact of research, innovation, and regulatory strategy on the global launch of medical technologies. He is also a CFA charter holder from the Chartered Financial Analysts’ Institute.
Marco Scheller
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CLINICAL OPERATIONS
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CLINICAL OPERATIONS
Marco brings over 30 years of global experience in therapeutics and diagnostics with mid- and large-cap pharma companies in roles spanning strategy, new product development, marketing, analytics, business development and operations, both commercial and clinical. Most recently at CareDx, Marco led the R&D Program Management Office, supporting the development of various new products and services, including AlloMap Kidney and KidneyCare. Prior to joining CareDx, Marco led the strategy and new products function at Ferring. Earlier in his career, Marco worked at McKinsey & Co., advising healthcare clients around the world. Besides transplantation, Marco’s therapeutic area experience includes cardiovascular, CNS, women’s health and oncology. Marco holds a master’s in pharmaceutical process engineering from ETH Zurich and an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School.