December 2018

Dr. Valerie Patrick, President of Fulcrum Connection LLC, is a facilitator, leadership trainer, and professional speaker that has helped a wide variety of technical organizations improve performance through science-based leadership and collaboration since 2014. Dr. Patrick is a PhD chemical engineer with 25 years of corporate experience leading technical and strategic initiatives to identify and deliver new sources of organizational value at Bayer and Monsanto. Her last corporate position was serving 4 years as the first Sustainability Coordinator/Strategist for Bayer North America (BNA)...Read more

Dr. Undey joined Amgen in 2003 and has held positions of increasing responsibility in Process Development which included providing manufacturing support, continuous process improvement of commercial products, and technology transfers. He has formed the Digital Integration and Predictive Technologies in 2013, a corporate group with a mission to transform Amgen business from data rich to decision smart. His group’s aim is to improve process and product understanding, process optimization, reduce process development cycle time hence increasing speed to market with reduced development costs...Read more

Ben Gray is the Technology & Portfolio Management Lead with Benson Hill Biosystems, where he works closely with the company’s R&D group as well as the company’s Intellectual Property functions. He has been heavily involved in Benson Hill’s genome editing platform development since the company began work in that area in 2015. Prior to joining Benson Hill Biosystems in 2012, he worked as a Senior Scientist with Agrivida. He holds a Ph.D from Cornell University and a B.S. from Johns Hopkins University.Read more