Austin Che, Co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks Austin is a co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks, the organism company, where he currently focuses on strategy and partnerships. Prior to Ginkgo, he received his PhD from MIT and BS from Stanford.
Erika Wagner, Payload Sales Director at Blue Origin Erika Wagner serves as Payload Sales Director for Blue Origin, LLC, a developer of vehicles and technologies to enable human space transportation. Prior to joining Blue Origin, Erika worked with the X PRIZE Foundation as Senior Director of Exploration Prize Development and founding [...]
Linda Molnar, SBIR/STTR Program Director at America's Seed Fund Linda Molnar has more than 20 years of experience in the life science and chemical industries, integrating her scientific research and engineering background with commercialization for startups, and international, government, and business environments. She joined NSF as an SBIR/STTR Program Director in [...]
Peter Brooks, Principal and Co-founder at Sylmar Group Peter Brooks is Principal and Co-founder at Sylmar Group, a private firm exploring transformative technologies and businesses in water and wastewater. Peter has experience across the water and wastewater industry where he has worked on disaster response and remediation, treatment plant operations, advanced [...]
Fyodor Urnov, Director for Technology and Translation at Innovative Genomics Institute Fyodor Urnov was the first geneticist to publicly call for a moratorium on human embryo editing in 2015. Working at Sangamo Therapeutics, he co-invented the term "gene editing" and was key to its first-in-human use to treat HIV, beta-thalassemia, and [...]
Ena Cratsenburg, Chief Business Officer at Ginkgo Bioworks Ena Cratsenburg is the Chief Business Officer at Ginkgo Bioworks and has more than a decade of experience working in the industry with companies like Amyris, Evolva, Intrexon and Pixar. She oversees new business partnerships and the commercialization of Ginkgo’s technology and products. [...]
Cedric Wu, VP of Research and Development, Reagent Service Business Unit, GenScript Dr. Cedric Wu obtained a PhD degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from University of Wisconsin - Madison where he also received post-doc training in nucleic acid, surface and analytical chemistry. Dr. Wu possesses more than twenty years of combined experience [...]
Yuima Nakazato, Fashion Designer Born in 1985, Yuima Nakazato graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2008, as the youngest Japanese student to do so. Yuima went on to found YUIMA NAKAZATO Co., Ltd. in 2015. In July 2016, he followed Hanae Mori to become the second Japanese national to be formally selected as [...]
Nandini Krishnamurthy, Senior Director Microbial Applications at Inscripta Dr. Krishnamurthy leads microbial genome engineering applications for Inscripta. She has >15 years of research experience in genetics, computational biology and genome editing with positions in DuPont Pioneer, Genentech, and University of California Berkeley.
Richard Fox, Executive Director of Data Science at Inscripta Richard Fox is a veteran of protein engineering, directed evolution, and systems biology and author of the widely used protein engineering tool ProSAR. As Executive Director of Data Science at Inscripta, Dr. Fox manages a team responsible for data mining, applications development, [...]
