Kellogg Healthcare Deep Dive
Evanston Alumni Networking Event
Maneesh Arora ’01 MBA
Founder and CEO, Elephas
Friday, January 17, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Central Time
Kellogg Global Hub, White Auditorium
2211 Campus Drive
Evanston, Illinois
Please join us for our Healthcare at Kellogg Evanston Deep Dive Alumni Networking event, featuring Maneesh Arora ’01 MBA, founder and CEO, Elephas. Arora will discuss his career building and leading medical technology diagnostic companies.
This alumni event coordinates with the Healthcare at Kellogg Deep Dive, an immersive program bringing together Full-time, Evening & Weekend and Executive MBA students to take classes and network together over three weekends in Miami, Evanston, and San Francisco.
Maneesh Arora is the founder and CEO of Elephas, an advanced imaging company focused on immunotherapy. Prior to founding Elephas in 2020, Arora was CEO of Farcast Biosciences, a venture-backed cancer diagnostics company focused on improving treatment outcomes for cancer patients. Before joining Farcast, Arora served as chief operating officer of Exact Sciences Corporation for ten years where he helped lead the growth of the company from 3 employees to over 3,000 at the end of his tenure there. Exact Sciences’ focus is the early detection and prevention of colon cancer. Exact’s lead product, Cologuard, was developed in collaboration with Mayo Clinic and is now widely available in the US as a front-line screening method for colorectal cancer, reimbursed by both Medicare and all major insurers. Prior to joining Exact, Arora worked for Third Wave Technologies, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, from 2003 until its acquisition by Hologic, Inc. in July 2008. Third Wave Technologies developed an HPV product for cervical cancer screening. During his time at Third Wave, he was responsible for business strategy and commercial operations before being promoted to chief financial officer in January 2006. Arora earned a BA in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.