Securing a seat on the Board for a Life Sciences, Pharma, or Biotech company is a logical next-step for many executives, but what does it take to be “Boardroom Ready?”

The Boardroom Ready Program through Women in Bio was created in 2016 to assist executive women in the life sciences secure their first director role. The program is designed to enhance a woman’s opportunities of finding a board appointment through classroom education and applied learning sessions as well as networking, ongoing programming, and development opportunities to give participants every advantage in achieving their goal of board service. Our Host, Dr. Lesley Northrop, was a participant in the WIB 2025 Boardroom Ready cohort.

Being around such accomplished women over the course of the Program was equally inspiring and intimidating. Implementing the DG mindset, Lesley saw an opportunity to share the stories of these women and their career journeys - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and to highlight the superpowers that got them here. In Episodes 22 and 23 of Diagnostic Guru, we hear from an array of members of the 2025 WIB Boardroom ready cohort, women who are ready to lead because of what they’ve learned along the way.

Securing a seat on the Board for a Life Sciences, Pharma, or Biotech company is a logical next-step for many executives, but what does it take to be “Boardroom Ready?”

The Boardroom Ready Program through Women in Bio was created in 2016 to assist executive women in the life sciences secure their first director role. The program is designed to enhance a woman’s opportunities of finding a board appointment through classroom education and applied learning sessions as well as networking, ongoing programming, and development opportunities to give participants every advantage in achieving their goal of board service. Our Host, Dr. Lesley Northrop, was a participant in the WIB 2025 Boardroom Ready cohort.

Being around such accomplished women over the course of the Program was equally inspiring and intimidating. Implementing the DG mindset, Lesley saw an opportunity to share the stories of these women and their career journeys - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and to highlight the superpowers that got them here. In Episodes 22 and 23 of Diagnostic Guru, we hear from an array of members of the 2025 WIB Boardroom ready cohort, women who are ready to lead because of what they’ve learned along the way.

Guest Title: Moran Snir, Founder and CEO, Nest Genomics

When you reflect on your work over decades, do you ask “Am I doing the same thing?” or do you look for where the problem has evolved, and where you, and the work, has evolved to meet that new challenge?

That mentality, and faith in the freedom of thought that drives imagination and innovation have shaped the success of our guest today. Moran Snir is the Founder and CEO of Nest Genomics, an AI-native platform designed to implement genomics at scale, but she is also a serial entrepreneur, the daughter of a medical geneticist, and the mom of three boys for whom she is modeling the normalcy of women in the C-seat. Her humility and thoughtful nature bely her mammoth success, and she is the first to tout her team and her community as the real rockstars.

Moran has devoted her career to one mission— using technology to make genomic health and precision medicine accessible to all. Prior to Nest, she founded Clear Genetics, including the GIA™ chatbot platform, which was acquired by Invitae (NVTA) in 2019. At Invitae, she led the Software and Data organization. Her first company was MorNetware, which developed Genometer—a platform that supported ethnicity-based carrier screening for more than 90% of pregnancies in Israel for over two decades. Moran served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces’ elite software unit and holds a B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, as well as an MBA from the Wharton School. She is a two-time Y Combinator alum.