VENKATESH SRINIVASAN, Ph.D.

Chief Technical Operations Officer

Venkatesh Srinivasan, Ph.D. has served as our Chief Technical Operations Officer since May 2023. From April 2022 to May 2023, Dr. Srinivasan served as our Senior Vice President, Process, Analytical and Formulation Development. Prior to that, from March 2011 to March 2022, Dr. Srinivasan worked at Bayer AG, where he was most recently, the Vice President of Global Manufacturing Sciences and Technology. Dr. Srinivasan also co-founded GlycoRx Partners, LLC, a company focused on developing novel, half-life extended pharmaceutical proteins and peptides based on a unique glycoengineering platform, where he was a partner from 2009 to 2011. Prior to that, Dr. Srinivasan worked for Phyton Biotech, LLC where he served as Senior Director, Bioprocess Development and Director, Business Development. Dr. Srinivasan received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the State University of New York. He also held post-doctoral appointments at the School of Engineering, Cornell University, and at the Antibody Engineering Laboratory, University of California, Davis.

Venkatesh started his career at Phyton Biotech, where he successfully developed, scaled-up and commercialized a novel plant cell culture technology platform. At Phyton, Venkatesh held leadership roles in Bioprocess Development, Business Development and in managing Phyton’s intellectual property portfolio. Venkatesh also cofounded GlycoRx, a company focused on developing novel, half-life extended pharmaceutical proteins and peptides based on a unique glycoengineering platform. Venkatesh received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the State University of New York. He also held post-doctoral appointments at the School of Engineering, Cornell University, and at the Antibody Engineering Laboratory, UC Davis.