Andrew J Conrad

Andrew Conrad, PhD, is the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Founder of Verily where he oversees an integrated team of engineers, scientists, designers, and medical experts working on a wide spectrum of healthcare-related projects. Previously, he was Chief Scientific Officer of Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp). Dr. Conrad co-founded the National Genetics Institute, where he served as Chief Scientific Officer. He is a Working Group Member on the Precision Medicine Initiative and a member of the UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI) Scientific Advisory Board. Conrad founded National Genetics Institute (NGI) in the 1990s. After selling that facility for $65 million, Conrad joined Google X — Silicon Valley’s most “secretive research lab” — in 2000. And ever since 2015, when Sergey Brin spun out the life sciences unit of Google X into its own company called Verily, Conrad has served as CEO of the semi-mysterious research firm, which operates under the Alphabet Inc. umbrella and boasts a practically unlimited amount of funding. Now in his mid-50s, Conrad was once married to actress Courtney Thorne-Smith (“Melrose Place,” “Ally McBeal,” “Two and a Half Men”) but is now married to former fashion model Haylynn Cohen, with whom he shares two children.