Experience

Lygos

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO & Co-founder

  • Jul 2014 - Present

  Emeryville, CA Founding member of Lygos' team responsible for establishing the vision, culture and strategic direction; financed the company with over $210MM in capital from multiple partners including the US DOE, USDA, NSF and other institutional & strategic investors. Established business planning processes for organic and inorganic growth, including strategic M&A. Built and led the team responsible for process development and pilot scale demonstration for the production of Lygos' products.

• CSO & Founder

  • Apr 2010 - Jul 2014



Joint Bioenergy Institute, Department of Energy / Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

• Post-doctoral Researcher

  • May 2010 - Apr 2012

  Engineering the metabolism of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli for the production of fuels and chemicals.



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Synthetic Biologist, Metabolic Engineer

  • Aug 2005 - Oct 2010

  Engineering the metabolism of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli for the production of fuels and chemicals.