Subject: Reference request
From: Anna Soellner <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta M <[email-masked]>
Cc: Eryn Sepp <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:10:00 -0700

Hello John - Hope all is well and that life is not getting too silly in the midst of the issues du jour. 

I am currently negotiating an offer from a cancer genomics start up based in San Francisco. This is a shift from my current work but I am very excited by the opportunity - in many ways the place feels a lot like CAP in the early days. I will initially run partnerships and then after we come out of "stealth mode," do broader communications. 

I'd be grateful if you are willing to give me a reference and perhaps highlight my capacity for relationship development and management?

The CEO is a dynamic guy named Will Polkinghorn. He's an oncologist previously with Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York before migrating to San Francisco. The firm has a relationship with UCSF and the state of California and it is my belief that it will become an great case study of public private partnerships between novel, cutting edge patient care and public institutions. 

Please let me know if you'd like further background from me and I'll get it to you. 

Thank you for this and hope to see you soon!
Anna