Our team
Founder and CEO
Ben Kamens
Founding engineer and VP Engineering at Khan Academy. Early engineer and VP Engineering at Fog Creek Software.
CTO
Ben Komalo
Senior engineer and technical lead at Khan Academy. Senior engineer at Google. Member of rescue team that helped fix healthcare.gov.
VP, Sales and Marketing
Maggie Vantangoli Policelli, PhD
Director of Marketing and product visionary at Araceli Biosciences. Field Application Scientist at GE Healthcare. PhD in Pathobiology from Brown University.
VP, Engineering
Aaron Archer Waterman
Director of Engineering for ML at Quora. Head of Data Science and 11th employee at Lyra Health. Software Engineer at various early stage startups.
VP, Strategy & Ops
An Nguyen, PhD, MMed
Founder of Innovatively, a tech-enabled strategy partner for life science co.'s. Head of Product at Capital One. PhD from Columbia and MMed from Stanford focusing on orthopedics & tissue biomechanics.
Head of R&D
Rachel Jacobson, PhD
Senior Principal Scientist at Kodiak Sciences, led and managed multiple pipeline projects for retinal diseases. Senior Scientist at Pfizer-Rinat Laboratories. PhD Graduate Researcher at UC Davis focused on mitochondrial dynamics.
Head of Lab Operations
William Van Trump, PhD
Manager of Process Engineering at Myriad Women’s Health, Director of Process Engineering at EpiBiome, Senior Manager of Engineering at Illumina. PhD from UC Irvine with a focus on Sensory Biomechanics.
Principal Scientist
Daniel Chen, PhD
Postdoc researcher at Stanford investigating epigenetic memory and aging. Graduate work at UCSD investigating DNA methylation aging clock genes.
Staff Software Engineer
Colin Fuller, PhD
Data and Infrastructure Engineer at Khan Academy. PhD work at Stanford focused on quantitative imaging and computational analysis of an in vitro system for centromere assembly.
Associate Scientist, Data Scientist
Tempest Plott
Research Associate at Freenome and Crescendo Bioscience. Graduate work at UC Davis focused on shotgun proteomics and exome sequencing.
Senior Data Scientist
Michael Wiest
Data scientist at Trace Genomics. Graduate work at UCSD focusing on deep learning approaches for characterizing the human gut microbiome. Terrible surfer.
Senior Manager, Strategy & Ops
Kelly Reynolds
Deputy Director, Administrative Operations & Planning at The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. Assistant General Manager at The TwinEagles Club.
Senior Machine Learning Scientist
Zach Barry, PhD
Data Scientist at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) focused on deep learning-based analysis of preclinical microscopy/imaging data. PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT.
Staff Machine Learning Scientist
Aaditya (Adi) Prakash, PhD
Manager of Machine Learning Research at Path AI. Research Scientist at Philips. Ph.D. from Brandeis in Deep Learning. Hiker, climber, and wanderer.
Staff Software Engineer
David Sharff
Software Engineer at Investortools focused on fixed-income security and credit analysis. Sim builder and Director of Technology at Abilitie. Once an aspiring aerial videographer for fun and profit.
Principal Scientist
Hope O’Donnell, PhD
Senior Scientist, Adaptive Biotech. Postdoc in plague immunopathology, Institut Pasteur. PhD in Th1 response to ID, UMN.
Associate Scientist
Kenneth Zhang
Senior Cell Engineering Specialist at Synthego. Research Associate at Arbor Vita. BS in Biomedical engineering and MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Senior Software Engineer
Sarah Trisorus
Senior engineer and technical lead at Airtable and Zipline. BS in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College.
Staff Software Engineer
Daniel LeCheminant
Engineer at Trello and Fog Creek Software.
Lab Manager
Drake West
Lab Manager at Alibi Ale Works, Research Associate at Octant Bio and Tacit Tx. BS in Biomedical Microbiology at UW-La Crosse.
Board
Founder and CEO
Ben Kamens
Founding engineer and VP Engineering at Khan Academy. Early engineer and VP Engineering at Fog Creek Software.
Chairman
Elad Gil
Cofounder of Color Genomics. Previously VP Corporate Strategy at Twitter and early PM at Google. Investor or advisor to AirBnB, Square, Stripe, Pinterest, Gusto, and more. PhD Biology from MIT.
Board member
Paul Sekhri
President and CEO of eGenesis. Previously president and CEO of Lycera, group executive vice president and chief strategy officer of Teva, and operating partner at TPG Biotech. Board member at Veeva, Pharming, and more.
Board member
Elena Viboch
Partner at General Catalyst. Previously at SoftBank. Portfolio includes Deep Genomics, Dewpoint Therapeutics, ElevateBio, Encoded Therapeutics, Karius, insitro, Seer, Variant Bio, Vividion Therapeutics, Eikon, Maze.
Board observer
Josh Kopelman
Co-founder and Managing Director of First Round Capital. Active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. Founded Half.com (sold to Ebay) and TurnTide (sold to Symantec).
Board observer
Hemant Taneja
Managing Director of General Catalyst. Portfolio ranges across medicine, energy, education, media, and finance, and includes Livongo Health, Stripe, Snapchat, Gusto, and more. Five degrees from MIT.
Advisors
Advisor
Sasha Kamb, PhD
Senior Vice President of Research, Head of Neuroscience Discovery at Amgen. President/CSO A2 Biotherapeutics.
Advisor
Bob Abraham, PhD
Senior Vice President and Group Leader at Pfizer. Chief Scientific Officer at Vividion Therapeutics. Co-discoverer of mTOR.
Advisor
Howard Chang, PhD
Head of Chang Lab, Professor of Dermatology, and Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Genomics and Genetics at Stanford. Scientific cofounder of Epinomics.
Advisor
Saul Villeda, PhD
Head of Villeda Lab for aging research at UCSF. PhD from Stanford with focus on reversing aging in the brain.
Advisor
Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI. Former president of Y Combinator.
Advisor
Steve Young, PhD
Vice President, Arcus Bio. Previously Executive Director and head of first automated screening lab at Amgen.
Advisor
Thomas Hughes, PhD
CEO of Navitor Pharma. Previous CSO and CEO at Zafgen, as well as Global Head of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases at Novartis.
Advisor
Daniel Delubac, PhD
VP Lab Tech and Operations at Freenome. Previous Head of Process Engineering and Automation at Guardant and Engineering Lead at Counsyl.
Investors
Elad Gil
Sam Altman
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