SomaLogic CEO and leadership

Roy Smythe, M.D., is the Chief Executive Officer of SomaLogic, Inc., a leading-edge biotechnology company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. During the course of his career, he has been an internationally recognized surgeon, biomedical scientist, academician, health system administrator and healthcare business entrepreneur. While in medical school at Texas A&M, he was a Charles A. Dana Foundation Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School of Business. Following medical school, Smythe trained in general surgery, surgical oncology and thoracic surgery and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in molecular therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania. His medical and translational research career then began at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he was the recipient of NIH and numerous other funding awards. He subsequently chaired the Department of Surgery at Baylor Scott & White Health System and the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, where he was the Roney Endowed Chair, and later became the Medical Director of Innovation and Executive Vice President for Institute Development before moving into expanded roles in corporate healthcare. Smythe came to SomaLogic from Royal Philips, where he served as Global Chief Medical Officer for Strategy and Partnerships. Before joining Philips, he served as Chief Medical Officer at Valence Health, a Chicago-based healthcare company. He held the same title previously at AVIA, a healthcare technology accelerator. A highly sought-after lecturer and the author of more than 300 papers, abstracts and essays in academic, literary and humanities publications, Smythe is also currently a member of more than 20 U.S. national learned societies.

Jason Cleveland is a CTO at SomaLogic Inc.

Steve Williams joined SomaLogic in 2009 as chief medical officer. Steve trained as a physician at Charing Cross and Westminster medical school, University of London, and following his internships, returned to the same institution for a Ph.D. in medicine and physiology. He subsequently performed three years of residency in diagnostic imaging at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined Pfizer in the U.K. in 1989 in experimental medicine, and worked on a variety of programs including asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, migraine [eletriptan], depression [sertraline] and urinary incontinence [darifenacin]. He moved to the U.S. in 1993 with Pfizer and worked in inflammatory bowel disease, stroke, psychosis [ziprasidone] and head injury. He created the clinical technology group in 1997, which became a worldwide function on five research sites with the objective of validating clinical biomarkers and measurements, and was made vice president in 2006. In process initiatives, he led or co-led initiatives in diagnostics, biomarkers, quality of drug candidates, and guidelines for development teams to make the decision to start Phase III trials.

Roy Smythe, M.D., is the Chief Executive Officer of SomaLogic, Inc., a leading-edge biotechnology company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. During the course of his career, he has been an internationally recognized surgeon, biomedical scientist, academician, health system administrator and healthcare business entrepreneur. While in medical school at Texas A&M, he was a Charles A. Dana Foundation Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School of Business. Following medical school, Smythe trained in general surgery, surgical oncology and thoracic surgery and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in molecular therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania. His medical and translational research career then began at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he was the recipient of NIH and numerous other funding awards. He subsequently chaired the Department of Surgery at Baylor Scott & White Health System and the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, where he was the Roney Endowed Chair, and later became the Medical Director of Innovation and Executive Vice President for Institute Development before moving into expanded roles in corporate healthcare. Smythe came to SomaLogic from Royal Philips, where he served as Global Chief Medical Officer for Strategy and Partnerships. Before joining Philips, he served as Chief Medical Officer at Valence Health, a Chicago-based healthcare company. He held the same title previously at AVIA, a healthcare technology accelerator. A highly sought-after lecturer and the author of more than 300 papers, abstracts and essays in academic, literary and humanities publications, Smythe is also currently a member of more than 20 U.S. national learned societies.

Jason Cleveland is a CTO at SomaLogic Inc.

Steve Williams joined SomaLogic in 2009 as chief medical officer. Steve trained as a physician at Charing Cross and Westminster medical school, University of London, and following his internships, returned to the same institution for a Ph.D. in medicine and physiology. He subsequently performed three years of residency in diagnostic imaging at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined Pfizer in the U.K. in 1989 in experimental medicine, and worked on a variety of programs including asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, migraine [eletriptan], depression [sertraline] and urinary incontinence [darifenacin]. He moved to the U.S. in 1993 with Pfizer and worked in inflammatory bowel disease, stroke, psychosis [ziprasidone] and head injury. He created the clinical technology group in 1997, which became a worldwide function on five research sites with the objective of validating clinical biomarkers and measurements, and was made vice president in 2006. In process initiatives, he led or co-led initiatives in diagnostics, biomarkers, quality of drug candidates, and guidelines for development teams to make the decision to start Phase III trials.