Robert Kain

Robert Kain is a Co-Founder and Board Member of LunaPBC, where he serves as Chief Executive Officer. He is an Angel Investor. He joined Illumina pre-IPO in 1999 and retired in 2014, as the Chief Engineering Officer. He is lead inventor on 28 U.S. patents that led to the breakthroughs that have revolutionized genome sequencing. Prior to joining Illumina, he was the Director of the Microarray Business Unit at Molecular Dynamics. He is also on the Scientific Advisory Boards of Dovetail Genomics, Singular Genomics and Edenroc Biosecurity and is the co-founder of Revere Biosensor. Additionally, he is the co-founder and chairman of the board of a successful health and fitness business, Mesa Rim Climbing and Fitness Center, with multiple locations in San Diego and Reno, Nevada. He received a BS in Physics from San Diego State University and an MBA from Saint Mary's College of California.