Nicholas Naclerio

Nick is Founding Partner of Illumina Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm strategically aligned with Illumina. From 2010 to April 2016, Nick served as Illumina’s Senior Vice President of Corporate and Venture Development. In April 2016, Nick left to found Illumina Ventures, where he manages investments and participates on company boards. From 2014 to 2015, Nick also served as the founding General Manager of Illumina’s Enterprise Informatics Business Unit. Before joining Illumina, Nick co-founded and was the Executive Chairman of Quanterix, an emerging diagnostics company based on a novel single-molecule detection platform. Previously, he was Executive Chairman of True Materials and CEO of ParAllele BioScience, life science tools firms that were both acquired by Affymetrix. He was also the founding Vice President and General Manager of Motorola Life Sciences. He also held leadership roles at Zyomyx Inc., Motorola Ventures, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force. Additionally, Nick has served on a number of corporate and institutional boards, including Twist Bioscience, Boreal Genomics, the SNP Consortium, Genometrix, Clinical Microsensors, Orchid Bioscience and SEMATECH. Nick received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University, a Winston Churchill Fellowship in Materials Science to Cambridge University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.