Jason Ryder is a bioprocess engineer, entrepreneur, and educator with experience in process and product development, engineering design, scale up, and commercialization in the industrial biotech and food tech sectors. His professional work has ranged from small molecules to proteins with applications spanning sustainable chemicals, fuels, materials, and foods.
Jason is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Oobli, a food technology company building a new category of food and beverages based on naturally sweet plant proteins. Prior to Oobli, Jason spent time in senior technical leadership roles at Amyris, Bolt Threads, and Hampton Creek / Eat JUST.
Jason earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2018 he joined the UC Berkeley faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, where he currently serves as Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of the Master of Bioprocess Engineering (MBPE) program.