James Hallinan, Business Development Manager, Synthetic Biology, Cambridge Consultants James Hallinan has been working in innovation management and commercialisation across the life sciences for over 20 years in the UK and Australia. After training and working in molecular biology, he moved into academic technology transfer in university and subsequently clinical settings, latterly [...]
Nishan Degnarain, Special Advisor to World Economic Forum on Oceans. Special Advisor to World Economic Forum on Oceans. Formerly with the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit; then management consultant advising governments and companies in Asia and Africa on strategy and economic growth. Chair, WEF Global Agenda Council on Oceans (2013-16). Economic [...]
Lenny Mendonca, GO‐Biz Lenny Mendonca is the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO‐Biz). He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded [...]
Vince Sewalt, Global Lead, Regulatory Science & Advocacy at DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences. Vince Sewalt leads the Regulatory Science & Advocacy team of DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences, a B2B business that develops bio-based products aimed at improving sustainability of our food chain, fuel supply, and consumer products. Vince deploys his 20+ [...]
Karl Schmieder, founder of messagingLAB Karl Schmieder is the founder of messagingLAB, a strategy and consulting firm that helps biotechnology and synthetic biology companies create and execute strategies to drive the industry forward. Karl is the co-author of What’s Your Bio-Strategy?, a book that describes the massive advances of synthetic biology, [...]
Gabriel Lopez, CEO of Synvivia Gabriel Lopez earned his Ph.D at the UC Berkeley UCSF joint graduate group in bioengineering. He developed a genetically encoded biocontainment technology for controlling engineered organisms. He founded Synvivia to commercialize this work.
Oscar Alvizo, Director of Computational Biology at Codexis Oscar Alvizo is the Director of Computational Biology at Codexis and heads the Structural Biology group and the CodeEvolver software engineering team. In his twelve year tenure at Codexis, he has been listed as an inventor in over eighty granted patents worldwide for [...]
Heather Youngs, Program Officer, Scientific Research at Open Philanthropy Project. Heather joined the Open Philanthropy Project in August 2016. Her goal is to identify philanthropic opportunities in transformative basic and applied research that have important societal impact. Heather was director of the Bakar Fellows Program for faculty entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley, [...]
Aaron Hammons, Director of Business Development, Americas at Codexis Aaron Hammons is responsible for business development activities for the U.S. pharma and global diagnostic markets at Codexis.
Gjalt Huisman, Sr. Vice President Strategic Development at Codexis Dr. Gjalt Huisman is Sr. Vice President Strategic Development at Codexis Inc. In this role he focuses on applying the companies’ technology to the generation of new therapeutic proteins. He received his PhD fromt he University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and was [...]
