Darryl A. Leon

DARRYL LEÓN, Ph.D., director, Software Portfolio Strategy at Agilent Technologies, has over 10 years of experience leading product management teams, launching customer-focused products, and partnering with R&D groups to deliver high-quality software, hardware, and cloud-based solutions that support academic, biopharma, and clinical research markets. He has worked at Illumina, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and several small bioinformatics companies. He has taught at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC San Diego Extension, several local community colleges, and UCSC Silicon Valley Extension. He earned his doctorate in Chemistry from UC San Diego and has authored technical books and several scientific papers. He has served as chair of the Bioinformatics Advisory Committee since 2025.