Julie Garlikov
Julie Garlikov is the Chief Commercial Officer at Sherlock Biosciences. A global marketing and sales expert, Julie joins Sherlock with more than 20 years of experience in consumer product commercialization, accelerating growth for digital consumer health, wellness and beauty brands.
Prior to Sherlock, Julie was vice president of marketing at Grail, where she helped define the market for the first multi-cancer early detection blood screening test, Galleri®, and transformed the digital product experience for employer and patient-initiated telemedicine channels. Over her career, Julie has held leadership roles at organizations including Rodan + Fields, Allergan, PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble, where she honed her expertise scaling brands through a disciplined approach to marketing, sales, product and commercialization to drive long-term growth.
Julie earned her MBA in Marketing from Columbia School of Business and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Karen Davies
Karen Davies is the Chief Development Officer at Sherlock Biosciences. A medical diagnostic and device development veteran, Karen joins Sherlock with more than 30 years of experience driving innovation across a broad spectrum of diagnostic platforms.
Prior to Sherlock, Karen was at Quidel, where she served as vice president of instrument systems and was responsible for product architecture and development, as well as vice president of business transformation, where she was responsible for internal process improvement and global commercial communications associated with M&A transactions. Over her career, Karen has held key leadership roles at organizations including Gen-Probe, Abbott and Dura Pharmaceuticals, serving as part of the launch team for multiple diagnostic platforms, from the central lab to point-of-care and over the counter to consumers.
Karen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
James Scavone
James Scavone is the vice president of finance and controller at Sherlock Biosciences. James brings more than 20 years of experience in finance and operations, focused on scaling the financial operations for emerging and established life sciences companies. Overseeing Sherlock’s finance and accounting operations, James provides critical financial analysis to support Sherlock’s strategic goals, while also providing results-driven leadership to build company infrastructure and systems to support growth across all departments.
James joins Sherlock from bluebird bio, where he led financial operations and oversaw system setups and integrations. Prior to bluebird bio, Jim served in accounting roles of increasing responsibility at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, where he ascended to the position of manufacturing controller, overseeing production system setups and ongoing operations for the launch of commercially approved products.
James holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from University of New Hampshire Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics.
Bryan Dechairo
Dr. Bryan Dechairo is the chief executive officer of Sherlock Biosciences and also serves on the company’s Board of Directors. Bryan joins Sherlock with more than 20 years of experience developing and commercializing revenue generating clinical innovations that improve patient lives.
Prior to Sherlock, Bryan served as executive vice president of clinical development at Myriad Genetics, where he oversaw the development portfolio, delivering business-critical evidentiary data for value-based reimbursement and market acceptance of commercial and novel diagnostic products across six business units globally. Before joining Myriad, he was chief medical officer, chief scientific officer and senior vice president of research and development at Assurex Health, which was acquired by Myriad in 2016. During his extensive career, Bryan held roles of increasing responsibility at Medco, Pfizer, Oxagen, Sequana and Roche, where he established a proven track record of funding and scaling business from venture backed start-ups to profitable fortune 50 public companies.
Bryan has authored more than 50 academic and research-based publications, and earned a Ph.D. in Common Complex Human Genetics from the Institute of Child Health at University College London and a B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Kristin Riley
Kristin Riley comes to Sherlock with over 15 years of experience in diagnostics with functional expertise ranging from R&D and operations to global product management. While at IDEXX Laboratories, she led the analytical chemistry, technology transfer and manufacturing scale-up lab, which brought more than 40 products to the veterinary and environmental diagnostics markets, earning her the technical achievement award for her work in high-throughput process development automation. As a global product leader, Kristin also drove the strategic direction and operational execution for the preclinical biomarkers business. Prior to IDEXX, Kristin managed the proteomics and lipidomics core services at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute.
Kristin graduated summa cum laude with a BS in chemistry from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, an MS in biophysical chemistry from Yale University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.She has served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President for the Cape Elizabeth Education Foundation, supporting innovative grants for student curricula. Kristin also served as co-chair of the Women’s Executive Leadership Group while at MIT and most recently, she became a founding member of the Boston chapter of Chief, a network focused on supporting women in executive leadership roles.