Name | Position | Notes |
George Church | Co-founder and Lead Genetics Advisor | Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Wyss Institute |
Ben Lamm | Co-founder and CEO | Hypergiant, Conversable, Chaotic Moon, Team Chaos, Explorer’s Club, Planetary Society, Arch Mission |
Adam Milne | Chief Operating Officer | BioLabs, Pfizer, Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI), Horizons, Hope in Focus |
Eriona Hysolli | Head of Biological Sciences - Mammoth Lead | Harvard Medical School (Church Lab), Yale University |
Leyi Li | Head of Embryology | Hunan Medical University, Louisiana State University, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, University of Missouri College of Medicine, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Brian Beard | Chief Legal Officer | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati |
Beth Shapiro | Lead Paleogeneticist | University of California Santa Cruz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MacArthur Fellowship |
Sara Ord | Director of Species Restoration - Thylacine Lead | Johns Hopkins University, Hypergiant, St. David’s Hospital |
Evan Appleton | Head of Stem Cell Biology / Reprogramming | Harvard Medical School (Church Lab) |
Brandi Cantarel | Director of Bioinformatics | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Institute for Genome Sciences |
Sam Singer | Chief Financial Officer | Totus Medicines, Granahan Investment Management, Mistral Venture Partners, Lehman Brothers, Wellington Management |
Kent Wakeford | Special Executive Advisor to the CEO | Skillz, Gen.G Esports, Kabam, Integral Ad Science |
Sarah Grant | Chief of Staff | Chaotic Moon, Conversable, Hypergiant |
Sven Bocklandt | Species Director | Bionano Genomics, Felix Pets |
Matt James | Head of Animal Operations | Dallas Zoo, Zoo Miami, Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) |
Wendy Kiso | Principal Scientist of Assisted Reproduction | White Oak Conservation, Center for Elephant Conservation, Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, Moorpark College |
Peter Phillips | Chief Business Officer | Cameo, Giphy, Marvel Entertainment, Weight Watchers International, Fandango, Paramount Pictures, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
Justin Quinn | Species Director | Moderna, TCR2 Therapeutics, Harvard Medical School (Church Lab) |
Josh Kupke | Senior Director, Device Engineering | Smith & Nephew |
Jillian McCall | Marketing Director | Warner Bros. Discovery |
Alexander Titus | VP of Strategy & Head of Computational Sciences | In Vivo Group, Bioeconomy.XYZ, Google Cloud, United States Department of Defense (DoD), Amazon Alexa, In-Q-Tel, Georgetown University, University of New Hampshire |
Amanda Bastawros | Head of HR | University of Miami |
Andrew Busey | Chief Product Officer | Challenge Games, Conversable, Aceable, Cratejoy, FlashParking, ZenBusiness, Waterloo Water |
Scientific Advisory Board |
Carolyn Bertozzi | Advisor | University of California Berkeley, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Sarafan ChEM-H, MacArthur Fellowship, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bertozzi Group, Redwood Bioscience, Enable Biosciences, Palleon Pharmaceuticals, InterVenn Bio, OliLux Bio, Grace Science, Lycia Therapeutics, Eli Lilly |
Andrew Pask | Advisor | University of Melbourne, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Connecticut, Thylacine Integrated Genomic Restoration Research Lab (TIGRR) |
Austin Gallagher | Advisor | Beneath the Waves, Endangered Species Research, Blueprint, National Geographic Society, Explorer's Club, Fulbright Program, University of Exeter, Northeastern University |
Kenneth Lacovara | Advisor | Explorer's Club, Rowan University, Edelman Fossil Park & Museum |
Doris Taylor | Advisor | Miromatrix Medical, RegenMedix Consulting, Organamet Bio, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), American Association of Blood Banks, Alliance for Regenerative Medicine, Alliance for Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande, American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, European Society for Cardiology, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, National Academy of Inventors, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering |
Paul Ling | Advisor | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Zoo, EBV Association, American Cancer Society, EEHV Advisory Group, PLOS Pathogens |
Thomas Hildebrandt | Advisor | Free University of Berlin, European College of Zoological Medicine (ECZM), University of Melbourne, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research |
Love Dalén | Advisor | Stockholm University, Swedish Centre for Palaeogenetics, Conservation Genetics Specialist Group (CGSG), International Commission on Missing Persons, Swedish Research Council, European Research Council (ERC) |
Beth Shapiro | Advisor | See above |
Christopher Mason | Advisor | Weill Cornell Medicine, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Biotia, Onegevity, Tempus Labs, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Pershing Square Foundation - Sohn Cancer Research Alliance, WorldQuant Foundation |
Helen Hobbs | Advisor | Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Heart Study, National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Institut de France, Pfizer, The Column Group (TCG) |
David Haussler | Advisor | Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, Human Genome Project, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, International Society for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University |
Mike McGrew | Advisor | Roslin Institute, Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies |
Fritz Vollrath | Advisor | University of Oxford |
Rachel O'Neill | Advisor | University of Connecticut, UConn Health, Institute for Systems Genomics, Center for Genome Innovation, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, Earth BioGenome Project, KanGo, Koala Genome Consortium, Deep-Ocean Genome Project |
Matthew Wooller | Advisor | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Stable Isotope Facility (ASIF), University of Alaska Museum of the North |
Alta Charo | Advisor | University of Wisconsin, Nuclear Threat Intelligence (NTI), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Medicine (AAAS), National Academy of Medicine, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), United States Agency for International Development USAID, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, World Health Organization (WHO) |
Tom Gilbert | Advisor | University of Copenhagen, NTNU University Museum, Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH), [:European Research Council]], Horizon 2020, Carlsberg Foundation, Danish National Research Foundation |
Matthew Liao | Advisor | New York University, University of Oxford, University Center for Human Values, Johns Hopkins University, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Journal of Moral Philosophy |
Elazer Edelman | Advisor | Institute of Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, [:[National Academy of Medicine]], National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Inventors, Science Translational Medicine, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) |
Claire Aldridge | Advisor | Taysha Gene Therapies, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Remeditex Ventures |
Shane Campbell | Advisor | Princeton University, Biology of Superheroes |
Michael Hofreiter | Advisor | University of Potsdam, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, University of York |
Joseph DeSimone | Advisor | Stanford University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Bioabsorbable Vascular Solutions (BVS), Liquidia Technologies, Blue Current, Advanced Chemotherapy Technologies, Carbon 3D, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Engineering |
Vagheesh Narasimhan | Advisor | University of Texas at Austin, University of Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Harvard Medical School |
Erez Lieberman Aiden | Advisor | Harvard Society of Fellows, Google, Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, ShanghaiTech University, Google Ngram Viewer |
Executive Advisory Board |
Kevin Mayer | Advisor | Candle Media, Smash Capital, DAZN Group, Forest Road Company, TikTok, ByteDance, Walt Disney Company, Salesforce, Tinuiti, Beachbody |
John McKinley | Advisor | General Electric, Merrill Lynch, AOL, News Corporation, Postini, MessageLabs, DigitalOcean, Workspot, Powerset, Conversable, Hypergiant, Proxicom, Equifax, MYRO International, rnst & Young |
Nick Uhas | Advisor | Team Rollerblade USA, DreamworksTV, AwesomenessTV, Discovery Channel |
Richard Garriott de Cayeux | Advisor | Explorers Club, Space Adventures, XPRIZE Foundation, SpaceX, Zero-G |
Wyman Howard | Advisor | United States Navy, United States Naval Academy, Naval Special Warfare Development Group, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) |
Victor Vescovo | Advisor | Insight Equity, Bain & Company, Lehman Brothers, United States Navy Reserve, Blue Origin |
Linda Avey | Advisor | Precise.ly, 23andMe, Verily Life Sciences, Stanford Medical School, Rock Health |
Peter Diamandis | Advisor | XPRIZE Foundation, Singularity University, BOLD Capital Partners, Celularity, Vaxxinity |
Lauren Knausenberger | Advisor | United States Department of the Air Force, Department of Defense, Accellint, NextGen Angels, American Management Systems, CACI, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
David Szekeres | Advisor | Heron Therapeutics |
Dave Copps | Advisor | Brainspace, Aspen Institute, XPRIZE Foundation, Capital Factory, Worlds |
Julian Holguin | Advisor | Billboard, Media Rights Capital |
Nyalleng Moorosi | Advisor | Google, South African Council for Scientific and Industrial, South African Broadcasting Corporation, Deep Learning Indaba, <A+> Alliance |
Tom Gruber | Advisor | Siri, Apple, Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society, Center for Humane Technology, Stanford Knowledge Systems Lab |
Michael Ireland | Advisor | MTV, Appian Way, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Company, Paramount Pictures, Science & Entertainment Exchange, National Academy of Sciences |
Conservation Advisory Board |
Forrest Galante | Advisor | Phantasticus Pictures, Animal Planet |
Mead Treadwell | Advisor | Prince William Sound Science Center, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Arctic Council, Institute of the North, United States Arctic Research Commission, Immersive Media, Iridium, Qilak LNG, Ryan Air, Pt Capital, Digimarc, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Arctic Circle, Arctic Encounter, Polar Research and Policy Institute, Arctic Today, Explorers Club, Order of the Rising Sun, Alaska SeaLife Center, Alaska Outdoor Council |
Aurelia Skipwith | Advisor | AVC Global, International Order of T. Roosevelt, Monsanto, Alltech, United States Department of the Interior, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Ramaco Resources, Steamboat Institute, Rubicon Institute, Ducks Unlimited |
Iain Douglas-Hamilton | Advisor | Save the Elephants (STE), Elephant Crisis Fund, Chicago Zoological Society, San Diego Zoological Society, Tanzanian Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) |
Doug Vincent-Lang | Advisor | Alaska Department of Fish and Game |
Virginia Riddle Pearson | Advisor | Fox Chase Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Princeton University, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Zoological Society of Philadelphia |
Wells Howe | Advisor | Beneath the Waves, University of the Bahamas |
Peter Knights | Advisor | WildAid, Environmental Investigation Agency |
Dennis Schmitt | Advisor | William H. Darr College of Agriculture, White Oak Conservation, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Center for Elephant Conservation, International Elephant Foundation, IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group |
Michael Kreger | Advisor | Columbus Zoo, Partners in Conservation (PIC), Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Animal Welfare Information Center, Peace Corps, Bronx Zoo, Patuxent Research Refuge |
Linda Penfold | Advisor | South-East Zoo Alliance for Reproduction & Conservation (SEZARC), White Oak Conservation, Zoological Society of London (ZSL), United States Department of Agriculture, National Zoo and Conservation Research Institute, IUCN Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group, Vikela Earth, Nature’s SAFE, Association of Zoos and Aquariums |
Jim Coates | Advisor | Kryotek Arctic Innovation, Yukon Geological Survey, Parks Canada, EarthScope, National Geographic Society |
Charlie Gray | Advisor | Elephant Managers Association, International Elephant Foundation, Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), EEHV Advisory Group |
John Lukas | Advisor | Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Okapi Conservation Project, International Rhino Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Network, New York Zoological Society, White Oak Plantation, White Oak Conservation, Anna Mertz Rhino Trust, Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center, South East Zoo Alliance for Conservation and Research |