Illumina names new senior vice president of operations

In this newly created role, Mr Bonnar is responsible for overseeing Illumina’s global manufacturing and supply chain efforts, and will report to Joel McComb, senior vice president and general manager of life sciences business.

Mr Bonnar joins Illumina from KLA-Tencor, a semiconductor equipment provider, where he served in several senior operations management positions. His most recent role was vice president of operations for KLA-Tencor’s reticle and photomask inspection, and ebeam divisions.

Prior to KLA-Tencor Mr Bonnar was a member of the engineering center at Pacific Press Technology and conceived, designed and implemented an automatic die-deflection compensation system.

Mr McComb said: “His success in the semiconductor industry will be directly applied to our efforts to scale and automate our global manufacturing and supply chain operations.”