Episode 56– Alec Ford & Stacy Solorio - CEO and Chief People Officer at Karius

So welcome back to another episode of the Bio Hub, we were delighted to welcome Alec Ford (CEO of Karius) and Stacy Solorio (Chief people Officer at Karius). Alec is a veteran of the genomics and biotech industries with over 30 years of leadership experience. Alec is leading the charge in transforming infectious disease diagnostics through Karius’s groundbreaking liquid biopsy test, which uses microbial cell-free DNA and AI to detect over 1,000 pathogens from a single blood draw. Before joining Karius, Alec served as COO at Myriad Genetics, where he scaled diagnostics across oncology, women’s health, and prenatal care, and held senior roles at Pfizer, Novartis, Sanofi, and Nektar. His leadership is deeply informed by personal experience—his family’s encounter with severe infections underscored the critical need for faster, more precise diagnostics.Stacy Solorio is the Chief People officer at Karius. Stacy is a strategic people leader with deep expertise in building culture and scaling teams within fast-growing biotech organizations. She’s also the founder of Biocom’s HR Biotech Group and Executive HR Education program, and serves on the board of the Biocom California Institute. At Karius, she’s helping align talent initiatives with the company’s mission to bring cutting-edge diagnostics into clinical practice.