Billy Hagstrom previously served as Executive Vice President of Strategy & Development for Green Plains, Inc.. Prior to moving to Omaha in 2021, Billy served as Chief Executive Officer of Cannalysis. Previously, Billy was a Managing Director at Highbridge Capital Management. Billy started in investment banking at J.P. Morgan focused on Natural Resources & Infrastructure. Billy earned his BA in Economics from Northwestern University.

A multi-disciplinary entrepreneur  with leadership experience across science, technology, operations. Most recently, Tyler served as SVP of Science & Technology at Green Plains and prior to that co-founded Cannalysis Labs. Tyler graduated from San Diego State with a BS in Biology.

Jared Wenger has spent over 10 years in the biotech industry, most recently leading Technical Operations for a vaccine startup in Nebraska.  Prior to moving to Nebraska, Jared spent 4 years at Zymergen, initially developing genetic tools for bacterial and yeast strain manufacturing pipelines, and ultimately leading process engineering and continuous improvement efforts across Build and Test capabilities. Jared started his career as a strain engineer at Amyris, after receiving his Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford and B.S. in Biological Sciences from Carnegie Mellon.

Jed was a co-founder Zymergen where he built and led high-throughput Build, Test, and Fermentation operations. Previously, he was key in building Amyris’ strain engineering platform, and is a thought leader in industrial SynBio.

Ton is a world renowned bioprocess engineer, microbial physiologist, and visionary in anaerobic fermentation. He is department head for Industrial Biotechnology at KTH (Stockholm). He was formerly at TUDelft and Tate & Lyle.

Kristy has 20 years of experience in the field of synthetic biology focusing on yeast metabolic engineering for the production of small molecules while earning a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Caltech. She is currently a co-founder and CSO at Antheia.