Our Team

Never losing sight of our guiding purpose to empower treatment decisions with greater insight and confidence.

Leadership Team

Roopom Banerjee

Executive Chairman

Brian Dow

Chief Financial Officer

Wendy Levin MD, MS

Chief Clinical Officer

Taryn Cranford, PhD

VP Precision Medicine

Patrick Eimerman, PhD

VP Business Development and Partnering

Brenton Foretich

VP Clinical Operations

Christina Garcia

VP Compliance

Brian Krueger, PhD

VP Technology Development

Board

Roopom Banerjee

Executive Chairman

Carl Barrett

Non-Executive Director

Roger Gunnarsson

Non-Executive Director

Ramez Sousou

Non-Executive Director

Ziad Essa

Non-Executive Director

Linus Weibe

Non-Executive Director

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Roopom Banerjee

Executive Chairman

Roopom Banerjee is Executive Chairman at SAGA Diagnostics.

Roopom has 25+ years of experience in corporate strategy, investment banking, growth equity investments, company formation, and executive/board leadership. Roopom is currently a Senior Advisor at Bain Capital and Operating Partner at CRG Investments, as well as a Board Member for several life science companies. Previously, he was President and CEO at RainDance Technologies, which pioneered the first clinical tests and platforms utilizing Digital PCR, as well as the leading genomic platforms for inherited cancer testing. In his prior Wall Street experience, Roopom worked at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and Leerink. His early career started in cancer genomics at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Whitehead Institute Human Genome Project. Roopom holds three degrees from MIT and Harvard, was a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Scholar, and voted one of Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” award recipients.

Roopom holds degrees from MIT and Harvard.

Brian Dow

Chief Financial Officer

Brian Dow is Chief Financial Officer at SAGA Diagnostics.

Brian joined SAGA Diagnostics in February 2024 as Chief Financial Officer and oversees the Company’s financial operations and serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Brian is a senior financial executive with over 30 years of experience leading financial operations for both U.S. and international organizations. He joined SAGA Diagnostics from ProSomnus Sleep Technologies, a multi-national medical device company, where he held the role of Chief Financial Officer.

Earlier in his career Brian has held executive financial roles at Agendia N.V., Pulse Biosciences, Pacific Biosciences, and Northstar Neuroscience. Prior to this Brian had 14 years of increasing responsibilities in financial management of publicly traded companies and in public accounting as a manager with Ernst and Young. He is recognized as a licensed Certified Public Accountant by the Washington State Board of Accountancy and holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Wendy Levin MD, MS

Chief Clinical Officer

Wendy Levin in Chief Clinical Officer at SAGA Diagnostics.

Dr. Wendy Levin is a Hematologist and Oncologist with more than 15 years of increasing leadership experience in the biotech and diagnostic industries, spanning a broad range of disease indications, diagnostic targets, and early to late phase clinical development.

She has provided strategic and executional support for private pre-IPO start-ups to Fortune 500 publicly traded companies and investment firms, leading regulatory interactions, clinical advisory boards and global clinical and biomarker translational leadership for all phases of therapeutic development.

Wendy’s first role in biopharma was at Pfizer, where she led the translational and clinical development of Daurismo from pre-IND to designing the FDA registration trial in elderly unfit acute myeloid leukemia (AML) at Pfizer. She subsequently served as vice president and acting CMO of two small publicly traded companies, where she led clinical development and Medical Affairs, and served as the Global Clinical Lead for the $250M RP3 immuno-oncology DANUBE trial in 1L urothelial cancer, published in Lancet Oncology.

Most recently, she served as CMO for Biofidelity, a start-up clinical stage diagnostics company based in the UK. Wendy has considerable experience in both the buy and sell sides of VC, where she has conducted clinical due diligence for 10+ VC firms and has secured over $100M in capital, bringing novel therapeutics and practice-changing diagnostics to market.

Taryn Cranford, PhD

VP Precision Medicine

Taryn Cranford is VP Precision Medicine at SAGA Diagnostics.

Taryn comes to SAGA with more than 13 years of experience in the oncology research and clinical testing space, originating as a cellular and molecular scientist studying the immune response in hormone positive and triple negative breast cancer. After a postdoctoral fellowship in breast cancer genetics, she transitioned to industry working to optimize anatomical pathology and histology workflows to increase diagnostic efficiencies for Leica Biosystems. Realizing she could leverage this technical experience in sales, she achieved great success selling entire workflow solutions to clinical pathology labs with the aim to decrease diagnostic timelines.

Approached by Caris Life Sciences when they were creating a precision medicine team, Taryn pioneered a pathology focused sales approach that brought together clinicians from across the cancer care continuum. Her work aligned oncology, tissue acquisition, and pathology on clinical molecular testing workflows to decrease the overall time to patient treatment. Her elaborate understanding of complex systems and ability to drive collaboration drove industry changes in comprehensive molecular profiling. As the VP of Strategic Accounts at Caris, Taryn used her scientific and clinical expertise to drive systemic changes at top academic and community provider sites across the country.

Taryn serves as the VP of Precision Medicine at SAGA Diagnostics focusing to harmonize the commercial sales initiatives and SAGA’s clinical lab operations. This leverages her technical knowledge and precision medicine understanding with her strategic sales experience allowing for key customer expansion.

Patrick Eimerman, PhD

VP Business Development and Partnering

Patrick Eimerman is VP Business Development and Partnering at SAGA Diagnostics.

Patrick has proven and deep experience in genomics, liquid biopsy, and molecular diagnostics product development, commercialization, and partnering from his roles at Exact Sciences, Guardant Health, Illumina, and Roche Diagnostics. Prior to joining SAGA, Patrick helped create and lead the BioPharma partnership team at Exact Sciences, which focused on their Oncotype DX, OncoExtra, MRD, and MCED franchises. Patrick was also a key member of the Guardant Health BioPharma partnerships and Guardant Reveal product teams, leading early MRD partnership efforts and defining the market and stakeholder requirements for the first blood-only MRD test.

Patrick has a BS in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Brenton Foretich

VP Clinical Operations

Brenton Foretich is VP Clinical Operations at SAGA Diagnostics.

Prior to joining, he worked in senior clinical operations, regulatory affairs and quality roles at Guardant Health, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Response Genetics. He also worked as a Clinical Operations and Quality Assurance consultant specialising in oncology clinical trials.

Brenton has expertise in companion diagnostics (CDx) for IVD manufacturing and CLIA labs.

Brenton has a BS, Chemical Engineering, Business Administration from University of Southern California.

Christina Garcia

VP Compliance

Christina Garcia is VP Compliance at SAGA Diagnostics.

With over 18 years of experience in the life sciences industry, Christina has led compliance and privacy programs for medical device and laboratory companies, ensuring alignment with applicable laws, regulations, and industry guidance. Christina holds certifications in healthcare compliance, privacy, and ethics, and has a strong track record in program implementation, risk mitigation, auditing, and investigation. Her focus is on enhancing operational efficiency and maintaining regulatory alignment while fostering a culture of integrity and accountability that supports ethical innovation and patient trust throughout the healthcare ecosystem.

Brian Krueger, PhD

VP Technology Development

Brian Krueger is VP of Technology Development and oversees SAGA’s Bioinformatics, Assay R&D, Applications and High-Throughput Automation groups.

Brian has extensive experience in high-throughput genomics, molecular diagnostics, and laboratory automation from his roles at Labcorp, Everly Health, Columbia University, Duke University, and the University of Florida. At Labcorp, he led the development and national deployment of the company’s COVID-19 RT-PCR test and created the NGS CORE platform to support highly scalable high-throughput sequencing assays. Earlier in his career, Brian established a viral genetics core facility at UF, modernized genome sequencing operations at Duke and at Columbia he built their biobanking, sequencing, informatics, and IT infrastructure from the ground up, enabling large-scale clinical genomics and research programs. Brian holds a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Iowa.