Team

Martha Trela
Vice President Marketing

Ms. Trela has over 16 years of marketing experience in the life science industry. She joined Pacific Biosciences in 2006 to build and lead the Marketing department. Previously, as VP Commercial Marketing at Affymetrix, she built and led the commercial marketing department, which included strategic marketing, competitive intelligence, marketing programs and regional marketing. Ms. Trela worked at Applied Biosystems (AB) for 13 years with experience in positions of increasing responsibility. As AB's VP of Worldwide Marketing Programs, Ms. Trela built and led a global marketing organization. Earlier at AB she was the director of North American Field Marketing and held various leadership roles in product management of the company's DNA sequencing product line. She started her career as a life science research assistant at Stanford Medical Center sequencing human lymphomas. Ms. Trela holds a MBA from U.C. Berkeley and a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University.