Neil Ward is PacBio’s VP and General Manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Neil joined PacBio in 2021 from Illumina, where he was senior sales director for Northern Europe and responsible for some of the World’s largest genomics projects including UK Biobank, Genomics England, deCODE genetics, and the Estonian Biobank. Prior to his 13 years at Illumina, he held bioinformatics and sales roles at Agilent Technologies, Silicon Genetics, Oxford Biomedica, and Celltech. Neil holds a master’s degree in bioinformatics, and a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Manchester. 

Comprehensive variant detection with HiFi sequencing