Karius

General Counsel

• Advise the Company and Commercial Leadership team on legal issues related to product development, scientific exchange, pricing, market access, strategic partnerships, and sales and marketing strategies and tactics to mitigate legal risk as the business scales in domestic and international markets.
• Oversee the development, implementation, and documentation of Karius’s healthcare compliance and privacy programs, including identifying areas of risk, developing policies and procedures, deploying appropriate training, conducting periodic monitoring, auditing, and investigations, implementing necessary corrective action programs, providing routine updates to the Company’s Leadership regarding healthcare compliance matters, in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Partner in the development and review of externally facing communications, including marketing materials, press releases, social media engagements, field sales customer engagements (speaker bureaus, launch tactics, pricing discussions), market access materials, medical affairs customer engagement (KOL interactions, publications, advisory boards, medical education, investigator-initiated grants, research collaborations).
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners on the development of communications and responses to healthcare regulatory authorities, related to the Company’s commercial activities, privacy, and healthcare compliance matters.
• Advise and develop compensation plans and policies regarding field sales, and customer targeting.
• Maintain current knowledge of applicable federal and state laws related to the commercialization of diagnostics and operations of healthcare compliance and privacy compliance programs and provide cross-functional education to inform strategic decision-making and mitigate operational legal and compliance risk.
• Advise regarding healthcare regulatory, privacy, and compliance concerns related to various company activities, including financings, joint ventures, clinical research agreements, and commercial collaborations.
• Collaborate with legal team members to support contracting matters for commercial, medical affairs, and business development.

VP – Associate General Counsel