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Murali Venkatesan

Vice President and Head of Danaher Ventures, Americas and Europe

Murali Venkatesan brings a strong innovation mindset and diverse leadership experience from healthcare and semiconductor industries. Throughout his career, Murali has built teams at the forefront of science & technology, research & development, strategy, venture capital, and M&A.

Biography

As Head of Danaher Ventures, Americas & Europe and Vice President of Science, Technology and Innovation, Murali leads Danaher’s investments, strategy, and partnerships across the early innovation ecosystem. Since joining Danaher in 2019, Murali has held roles of increasing responsibility across Danaher Ventures and M&A and serves as board director for multiple private companies.

Prior to joining Danaher, Murali held key roles at Lam Research across business development and strategy (NASDAQ: LRCX) and at Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) where he led technology teams that were instrumental in delivering the $1000 genome.

Murali holds a Ph.D. in electrical & computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. He also holds Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Engineering degrees in computer science, pure mathematics and electrical engineering from the University of Western Australia. 

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