Betsy Yates
Senior Director, Media Relations and Corporate Communications
Complete Genomics
Betsy Yates, Senior Director, Media Relations and Corporate Communications, Complete Genomics
Betsy has worked in healthcare communications for 20 years, specializing in strategic communications, media relations, crisis communications and reputation management for healthcare and technology companies. After a stint as an education reporter, she led PR and communications at a hospital system, a federal contractor for the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as at health tech and biotech startups. Agency-side, as SVP of Health Tech Media at Edelman, she advised national health tech clients including Google Health, YouTube Health and Roche. At Complete Genomics, she manages internal and external communications as well as government relations.
Originally from Appalachian Ohio, after living in Phoenix, Boston and Pittsburgh, she recently returned to Savannah with her husband, son and two extremely loud huskies.