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Verily has seen 24 departures by top talent in the past year.
2020 brought hiccups like repurposing Verily for the pandemic, which employees said was exhausting.
Now the upstart has restructured its leadership team as it plots a major expansion.
Verily, an Alphabet life sciences company, has had a string of exits among top brass in recent months.
Thomas Stanis, one of Verily s cofounders, and Ashraf Hanna, the chief operations officer, left in February 2020 and November 2020, respectively. Hanna joined testing company Genalyte as CEO, and Stanis founded a startup with a Verily colleague, Nikhil Roy, that s focused on fixing disconnected speciality care.
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Verily, Alphabet s secretive healthcare moonshot, is overhauling its leadership structure and cutting down on CEO Andy Conrad s direct reports.
A new chief operating officer took over a lot of Conrad s responsibilities. There s also a new tech chief, and the company is looking for chief marketing, revenue, and information officers.
Meanwhile, Verily in December raised $700 million in a new round of funding that it said would be used to expand its star commercial businesses.
During an all-hands meeting in November, Verily Life Sciences CEO Andy Conrad announced that the company would be run differently.