Jarrod Borkat

Jarrod Borkat brings 22 years of global sales, marketing and business development experience to CareDx. Prior to joining CareDx in 2021, Jarrod served as vice president of corporate strategy at Emergent BioSolutions, a $1 billion life sciences company focused on developing vaccines and therapeutics for public health threats. While in this role, Jarrod also served on the Maryland Governor’s Life Science Advisory Board and was a board director for BioHealth Innovation and the Maryland Technology Council. Before Emergent, Jarrod held several leadership positions at MedImmune/AstraZeneca, including portfolio management, business development & licensing and government, non-government organizations and academic strategic partnerships. He spent the first half of his career at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, where he started as a pharmaceutical sales representative and rose through the marketing ranks to become the U.S. commercial lead for BI’s HIV franchise and global marketing lead for its CNS franchise. Jarrod is recognized in the life sciences industry for speaking at conferences throughout the nation, including SXSW, AUTM, BIO, and The BioHealth Capital Region Forum. Jarrod graduated from University of Georgia with a bachelor’s in biology and has an MBA from Kennesaw State University.