Google's sister company Verily Life Sciences has named Preston Simons as its chief information officer.
As Verily's CIO, Simons will build out the Alphabet subsidiary's information-technology systems and strategies.
Simons mostly recently worked as a consultant as president and managing partner of Simons & Associates, a role he started in 2018.
He previously served as executive vice president and CIO at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, before the system's 2018 merger with Advocate Health Care. Before joining Aurora Health Care, Simons had served as vice president of IT and CIO of medical-device and pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott Laboratories for a decade.
Verily also in January named Andreas "Drew" Panayiotou as chief marketing officer.
Verily, Alphabet's life sciences research subsidiary, raised $700 million in an investment round announced last month.
At the time, Verily CEO and founder Andrew Conrad said the funding would be used to scale the company's products and services. "2021 will be a year of significant and focused growth for Verily's operations as we continue to drive innovation in our core programs," he said in a statement in December.
Alphabet, which reported $46.2 billion in revenue and $11.2 billion in operating income for 2020's third quarter, doesn't break out Verily's earnings. But while Google posted $12.6 billion in operating income for the quarter, Alphabet's dozen or so other subsidiaries—which include Verily—reported a collective $1.1 billion operating loss.
Alphabet will post its earnings results for 2020's fourth quarter in February.
Verily in 2020 launched an online screener designed to assess users for COVID-19 risk that sparked privacy concerns—including from a group of Democratic senators—largely on account of its connection with Google. The company last year also launched COVID-19 back-to-work and back-to-school programs and a subsidiary that sells employer stop-loss health insurance.
