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Founder · Engineer · Executive
Pieter van Rooyen and the useful art of changing the subject
Wireless chips. Cash for old phones. Faster ways to process data. Pleno founder Pieter van Rooyen has built a career by carrying an engineer’s questions into unfamiliar rooms.
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Executive · Operator · Scientist
Vik Vaz
Vik Vaz is a physician-turned-executive who became CEO and President of San Diego multi-omics biotech Pleno Inc. in December 2024, arriving the same day the company closed a $25M Series B. Trained as a surgeon and interventional oncologist, he later ran strategy and companion diagnostics at Illumina and was a partner at both McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group. At Pleno he is commercializing the RAPTOR platform, which uses proprietary Hypercoding technology to detect DNA, RNA and protein targets in a single sample at high speed and low cost.
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