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Robin Grimwood

Chief Executive Officer

Robin has over 25 years of experience in the Life Science market including product innovation, biobanking, sample storage and tracking, 2D Coded Tubes, compound management, -20°C to -80°C automated robotics, high throughput screening, consumer genomics, liquid handling and robotics.

Previous positions include VP & GM of Brooks Life Sciences, Owner and Co-Founder of FLUIDX, and senior commercial roles in both Thermo Fisher Scientific and Integra Biosciences. Robin previously served as President & COO and is also a Co-founder of Sampled.

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Amit Bhalla

Chief Financial Officer

Amit has more than 25 years of Wall Street and healthcare industry experience. His background in finance, strategy and business development includes experience in equity investing as well as sourcing, negotiating, and integrating transformational & tuck-in M&A. Most recently he served as Senior Healthcare Analyst at Lord, Abbett & Co. where he was responsible for active healthcare investments across all market caps and healthcare verticals in seven Lord Abbett funds.

His previous experience also includes senior management responsibilities at Becton Dickinson where he sat on the Executive Management team and ran Global Strategy & Business Development. Prior to Becton Dickinson, he held senior roles at Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Johnson & Johnson.

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Mary Storella

Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

Mary has over 20 years of legal and business development experience in the healthcare industry. Most recently, she served as Vice President, Senior Counsel of Corporate Transactions at Celgene Corporation, where she was lead counsel on key strategic transactions, including Celgene’s acquisition of Juno Therapeutics and merger with Bristol-Myers Squibb. Prior to joining Celgene, Mary served on both the business development and legal teams at Merck & Co., Inc. as Executive Director, Business Development and Director, Corporate Transactions.

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Shareef Nahas

Chief Scientific Officer

Shareef was previously with Rady Children’s Institute Genomic Medicine in San Diego, CA where he served as Senior Director of Operations. Before that, he held a number of senior laboratory roles at Genoptix (Novartis), and Ambry Genetics. Shareef received his Ph.D. in Molecular Toxicology from UCLA and his Clinical Molecular Genetics Fellowship from the UCLA Intercampus Laboratory Genetics, Genomics, and Medical Training Program in 2011. He has authored or co-authored greater than 40 peer-reviewed scientific publications.

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Isabella Britton

Chief People Officer

Isabella is a Human Resources Leader with over 20 years of experience primarily focused in the Life Sciences industry. Most recently she was the Executive Director of Human Resources at Celgene. In her role, she provided HR expertise to the Chief Medical Officer, the President of Global Clinical Development and the Chief Information Officer and their organizations. Prior to Celgene, Isabella held various HR roles at Merck and Schering-Plough providing HR expertise to multiple organizations including Global Marketing, Global Market Access, and Global Information Technology.

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Aaron Venables

Chief Commercial Officer

Aaron has over 23 years of experience in the Life Science and Biotechnology industries. He most recently served as Chief Commercial Officer for Fluidic Analytics (a University of Cambridge start-up specializing in protein interactions). Before that he worked as General Manager of Weatherbys Scientific, an agricultural genomics service provider.

Prior to that he held commercial leadership roles at Illumina (Head of Inside Sales and Lead Generation), Thermo Fisher Scientific (Chief of Staff to the President of EMEA, Global Marketing Director, Senior District Sales Manager) and was part of the team that built one of the UK’s first personalized medicine companies; the Precision Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre.

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Benedict Roylance

VP & GM Strategic Commercial Operations

With over 12 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically in stability storage services Ben brings a wealth of knowledge and contacts.

What he doesn’t know about stability storage isn’t worth knowing!

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Stephen Wang

Chief Information Officer

Steve was the Head of Global IT for Cambrex where he focused on IT Transformation and Digitization to ensure the company’s information assets and operations are secure, stable and accessible. 

Throughout his experiences in global pharmaceuticals, technology and communications companies, Steve focused on strategically delivering IT capabilities to enable companies to achieve their business goals. Prior to Cambrex, Steve held various leadership positions with Merck Company, Bristol-Myer Squibb, HP and AT&T.   He holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from New York University, and a Masters of Science in Computer Science from NJIT.