Twist Bioscience, a company focused on synthetic DNA, today announced the appointment of Solange Glaize, former corporate controller and chief accounting officer for Agilent Technologies, to the newly created position of chief financial officer.
“We are thrilled to welcome Solange to our executive team, as she will be instrumental in helping us build a world-renowned organization and execute on our commercial and operational goals,” said Emily Leproust, Ph.D., chief executive officer of Twist Bioscience. “With the successful completion of our recent Series C financing, we are poised to scale our synthetic DNA manufacturing capability, expand our customer base and evaluate strategic opportunities, driving toward a full commercial launch in 2016.”
Ms. Glaize brings more than 25 years of finance leadership to Twist Bioscience. Most recently, she served as vice president, corporate controller and chief accounting officer for Agilent Technologies, where she was responsible for the entire accounting function, international country controllership, external financial reporting, the Enterprise Sarbanes Oxley program, and financial policies, processes and solutions. Prior to that Ms. Glaize served as the life sciences group (LSG) operational CFO and also headed the LSG’s business development organization. She joined Agilent with the spinoff from Hewlett-Packard and served as managing director of European financial services in Brussels, Belgium. She transferred in 2001 to the Bay Area and subsequently held several finance controller roles, including commercial controller of the semi-conductor products group and manufacturing controller for the life sciences and chemical analysis group.