General Electric-backed and US-based life sciences technology company NanoString Technologies in October made James Johnson chief financial officer.
Johnson joins NanoString from Relypsa, a biopharmaceutical company, where he was CFO.
NanoString Technologies closed its series D funding round in November last year, having raised $20m from a pool of investors including GE Capital, which acts as the private equity investment unit for energy conglomerate General Electric.
The investment was the first made as part of the GE Healthymagination fund’s commitment, made in September, to spend up to $1bn on cancer research.
The round took NanoString’s overall financing to $73.5m since its inception.
Also participating in the round were BioMed Ventures, which operates as the corporate venturing division of realty investment trust BioMed Realty Trust, and Henri Termeer, the ex-chairman of biotechnology company Genzyme, as well as all of NanoString’s previous investors, which include venture capital firms Clarus Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and OVP Venture Partners.