Marshall R. Peterson is the NEON Chief Technology Officer. He was most recently Director of Information Technology and Software Engineering at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) new Janelia Farm Research Campus. Peterson has more than 25 years of IT experience, with 15 of these focusing on high-performance scientific computing, including designing missile guidance systems, acquiring and processing satellite data, and collecting and analyzing vast quantities of DNA sequences. Before HHMI, he was chief technology officer at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, where he was responsible for the design and construction of a high-throughput sequencing facility. He is also a former vice president for infrastructure technology for Celera Genomics in Rockville, Maryland, where he developed the computing infrastructure used to sequence and assemble the human genome.