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Igor Khandros, Ph.D.
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Board Member, Co-Founder Berkeley Lights

Igor Khandros, Ph.D.

Igor Khandros has served on our board of directors since he co-founded the company in April 2011. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Berkeley Lights, Inc. until 2017. Prior to founding Berkeley Lights, Dr. Khandros founded FormFactor Inc. in 1993 and served as Chief Executive Officer and executive chair. He led the company from a private start-up to a publicly traded company, with one of the leading intellectual property portfolios within the semiconductor manufacturing sector. He continued to serve as an advisor to FormFactor following his retirement in 2009. He also co-founded Tessera Technologies Inc. and served as the Vice President of Development. Dr. Khandros holds an M.S. equivalent degree in metallurgical engineering from Kiev Polytechnic Institute in Kiev, Russia and a Ph.D. in metallurgy from Stevens Institute of Technology.