Alex has over 20 years of experience in directing new product, process development, and scale-up in the food, nutraceutical, biochemical & biofuels industries. Since 2017, he took on the role of VP of Process Development at Bolt Threads, managing fermentation, recovery, fibers and Mylo(TM) development, scale-up and tech transfer.Read more
Dr. Berka is an experienced molecular biologist and research director whose career spans more than 35 years of microbial strain development for the application of enzymes in industrial biotechnology. He currently manages ADM’s enzyme development laboratory in Davis, CA.Read more
An experienced biotechnology innovator, Kelly Smith returned to the entrepreneurial community in 2014. She formed the fermentation and formulation research team at AgBiome, after serving as Head of Pasteuria Bioscience for Syngenta Crop Protection.Read more
Dylan Misslin is an Account Director at Provenance Consulting and holds a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University. Since joining Provenance Consulting in 2014, he has served clients in the oil and gas, specialty chemical, and nutritional industries.
Mr. Misslin manages various PSM-related projects specific to OSHA and EPA compliance audits, Management of Change (MOC) facilitation and implementation, Process Safety Information (PSI) verification, Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and Mechanical Integrity (MI) initiatives.Read more
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Arun Tholudur is an Executive Director of Process Development at Amgen where he leads the Drug Substance Technologies and Engineering organization that is accountable for ensuring successful implementation of multi-modality drug substance processes in the GMP environment from first-in-human clinical to commercial manufacturing across Amgen's internal and external manufacturing network. The team’s responsibilities span technology transfer, process validation, process monitoring, regulatory submission authoring and inspection support, continued process optimization for yield and...Read more
