Johnny Ek

Johnny has more than 20 years of financial leadership experience across the diagnostics and life sciences tools industries. He joins Akoya from Specific Diagnostics, a developer of rapid antibiotic susceptibility tests where he served as Chief Financial Officer and facilitated the Company's sale to bioMérieux in May 2022. Prior to that, he served as Chief Financial Officer at GenMark Diagnostics, a provider of multiplex molecular diagnostic solutions, and oversaw the sale to Roche Diagnostics in March 2021. Johnny served as the Vice President, Finance and Controller of eBioscience and completed it's sale to Affymetrix, when he became Vice President, Finance and International Controller. Johnny began his career at Ernst & Young and is a licensed CPA (inactive) in the state of California. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Brigham Young University and a Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame.