Richard comes with more than 3 decades of industry experience. He was CEO of Roche consumer Health and member of the executive board (1999 – 2005), CEO of Nestle Nutrition and member of the executive board (2005 – 2010), CEO of Nobel Biocare AG (2011 – 2016), Chairman of Atkins Nutritional’s (2011 – 2017), among others.

Yemi is a world-class award-winning scientist and serial entrepreneur. He has worked with early Startups as well as established late-stage companies where he had responsibilities ranging from IP acquisition and portfolio management to drug launches. Yemi was awarded the 2012 Boston Business Journal 40 under 40 and MIT Tech Review Global Innovators under 35 (TR35 2011). Dr Adesokan earned his PhD from UC Irvine and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Harvard Medical School with George Church.

Prior to co-founding Gnubiotics, Bernardo worked as an investment banker and had an impact as a consultant. Throughout his career, he has gained substantial experience on both buy-and-sell side transactions in a broad range of industries, such as Chemicals, Agribusiness, TMT, Healthcare, Biotech, as well as Food and Beverage across Europe, the US and LatAm, totaling over € 1 billion in transaction and financing value.

Ezra has had an extensive and successful career in private equity. He was a partner at ACI Capital from 2001 to 2007, and then at Atlanta-based Roark Capital from 2007 to 2021, where he served in multiple capacities including Chief Investment Officer.

Dr. Rothman was a recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and the 2002 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research. Award.He is the Sterling Professor of Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Rothman is the Chair of Arsenal Capital Partners’ Healthcare Advisory Board. Previously he was the Chief Scientist of GE Healthcare and has served in senior advisory roles at Genentech, Merck, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, and Eli Lilly. He was previously a professor at Stanford, Princeton, and Columbia Universities and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he served as Vice-Chairman of the Sloan-Kettering Institute.

Dr Baldoni held various positions at GSK including SVP, Preclinical Development; VP, Product Development; Director, Product Development; and Ass. Director, Biopharmaceutical Formulation Development, among others. He has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 42 years. His experience spans new chemical entity design, development & commercialization, and biopharmaceutical development. Dr Baldoni led the innovative drug discovery unit dedicated to exploring and applying in-silico methodology to drug discovery & development at GSK.

Dr. MD. Katharine Knobil has more than 20 years of experience in clinical development, medical affairs, and leading global strategic leadership roles across functions and geographies. Most recently, Dr. Knobil served as the first Chief Medical Officer at Agilent Technologies. Prior to that role, she served as CMO and head of R&D at Kaleido Biosciences, translating the promise of the microbiome into solutions for patients. Prior to Kaleido Biosciences, Dr. Knobil was Chief Medical Officer at GlaxoSmithKline, and represented GSK at multiple health authority presentations including multiple U.S. FDA Advisory Committee Meetings. Dr. Knobil currently serves on the boards of Marker Therapeutics, Pliant Therapeutics, and Nimbus Therapeutics.

George Church is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His pioneering work has contributed to the development of DNA sequencing and genome engineering technologies for which he received multiple awards including the 2011 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from the Franklin Institute and election to the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering. He co-authored over 550 publications, more than 150 patents.