Meredith L. Krannich is an advisor in the Executive Advisory Program of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Resident in the firm’s Salt Lake City office, she focuses on leveraging her nearly 20 years of experience in the life sciences sector as a lawyer and business executive to advise clients on a variety of legal operational and business matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Meredith served as vice president and general counsel (North America operations) at bioMérieux, where she built and led diverse, talented, and collaborative in-house legal teams and advised on key strategic business initiatives, among other matters. Before assuming this role, she was vice president of legal affairs—and previously senior corporate counsel—at BioFire Diagnostics, which was acquired by bioMérieux in 2014. At BioFire Diagnostics, Meredith led the legal team in supporting all of the company’s operational areas, including by managing the compliance program; drafting and negotiating agreements for sales and marketing, distribution, human resources, purchasing, strategic partnerships, and research matters; advising on key data security and privacy initiatives; and more. Earlier in her career, she was an intellectual property and litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Meredith is an adjunct professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, where she has lectured on lawyering skills, arbitration, and advanced negotiation and mediation.