Guardant Health, Inc. announced the expansion of its leadership team with the addition of Ines Dahne-Steuber as chief operating officer and the promotion of Darya Chudova to chief technology officer. Ines Dahne-Steuber brings over 20 years of leadership and strategic expertise in healthcare operations. Prior to joining Guardant Health, she served as senior vice president of operational excellence and president of Spectra Laboratories at Fresenius Medical Care North America.

Spectra Laboratories performs 100 million clinical and environmental tests serving over 200,000 dialysis patients per year. Prior to Fresenius Medical Care, she served in various leadership roles at Quest Diagnostics, most recently as general manager for oncology and vice president of healthcare IT solutions. Ms. Dahne-Steuber earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master's degrees at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Darya Chudova has been with Guardant Health for eight years, most recently serving as the senior vice president of technology. In this role, she initially focused on leading technical development of Guardant360 LDT and CDx products improving the precision, robustness and accessibility of Guardant's liquid biopsy tests. Most recently, she has led the development of Guardant's ShieldTM technology for blood-based colorectal cancer screening, which is currently under review with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Prior to Guardant, Darya successfully developed tools for clinical diagnostics and interpretation of genomic expression and sequencing data in the context of molecular cytology at Veracyte, Inc. and non-invasive prenatal testing at Illumina, Inc. Ms. Chudova holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from UC Irvine.