Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of former Roche Laboratories executive, Tammy Reilly, to Sorrento's board of directors. Ms. Reilly brings more than 30 years of life science, big pharma and operating leadership experience within healthcare therapeutics, consumer merchandising and healthcare diagnostic companies to Sorrento. Ms. Reilly is the managing partner of a life sciences advisory company, TRDx LLC, an independent firm that she founded 15 years ago to advise life science companies on life cycle management and business development solutions, which includes advice on mergers and acquisitions and strategic and capital markets transactions.

Prior to founding TRDx, Ms. Reilly spent nine years as a founder and Managing Partner of Real Life Products LLC, a consumer merchandising and manufacturing company that launched and sold six patented products via e-commerce and major retail chains, including Walmart, Home Depot and Amazon.