Phil Perez serves as Senior Vice President, Commercial Life Sciences. In this role, he is responsible for Tempus’ commercial strategy and structuring relationships with its biopharma partners. Phil has more than 20 years of commercial leadership experience in the fields of oncology genomics, enterprise software, and clinical research operations in both large healthcare companies and startups. Most recently, he served as Chief Commercial Officer of Verily Life Sciences, SignalPath. Prior to Verily, Phil led the commercial strategy at SignalPath, an enterprise-level research operations SaaS tool for both health systems and life sciences companies, from pre-revenue, until its acquisition by Verily. Phil holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.