Absci 公司 ABSI

Sean McClain is our Founder and has served as our Chief Executive Officer since August 2011, as a member of our board of directors since the formation of Absci Corporation in October 2020, and a managing member of our predecessor, Absci LLC, since inception. Mr. McClain previously served as a board member for the Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute (OTRADI), a non-profit biosciences-focused incubator, and Life Science Washington, a non-profit trade association. Mr. McClain holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Arizona.

Zachariah Jonasson, Ph.D. has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer since August 31, 2023. Prior to serving in these roles, Dr. Jonasson served as an independent member of our board of directors from October 2020 to December 2023 and on the board of directors of Absci LLC, the Company's predecessor, from April 2016 to October 2020. Previously, Dr. Jonasson served as Managing General Partner of Phoenix Venture Partners LLC (PVP), a venture capital firm based in San Mateo, CA that he co-founded in August 2010 and as Managing General Partner of Convergent Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA that he co-founded in April 2023. He currently serves as an Advisor to Convergent Ventures. Dr. Jonasson previously served as a director on the boards of L7 Informatics, Inc., Micropore, Inc., Xandar Kardian, Inc., Green Theme Technologies, Inc., and Crop Enhancement, Inc. until his departure from PVP on August 31, 2023. He previously served on the board of the Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute (OTRADI) and Oregon Bioscience Incubator (OBI) and has previously served on the Commercialization Council of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI), the Advisory Board for the Oregon Innovation Cluster (OIC), and the Advisory Board of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of British Columbia. Previously, Dr. Jonasson was a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Comera Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMRA, previously named ReForm Biologics, LLC) and a co-founder and VP of Business Development of Crop Enhancement, LLC. Earlier in his career, Dr. Jonasson was a General Partner and Kauffman Fellow at Seaflower Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the biotechnology sector. Dr. Jonasson earned a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University in the Honors Program in 1995 and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000 and 2003, respectively, where he was a Sackler Scholar. He has cotaught a marketing course at Harvard Business School as well as served as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Jonasson was a Research Associate at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Mary Szela has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2025. Ms. Szela has served as CEO and President of TriSalus Life Sciences since January 2018. Prior to joining TriSalus, Ms. Szela served as CEO of Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., from 2016 through Aegerion's merger with QLT Inc. to form Novelion Therapeutics Inc., where, until 2017, she served as CEO. Prior to Novelion, she was CEO of Melinta Therapeutics, leading the company's revitalization effort and accelerating clinical development of its lead asset for treatment of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Previously, Ms. Szela held progressive leadership roles at Abbott Laboratories including President of the company's $8 billion U.S. pharmaceutical business. She developed global brands such as Humira and served as Senior Vice President for global strategic marketing and services. Ms. Szela currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Kura Oncology, Prometheus Biosciences, Omega Therapeutics and Senda Biosciences. She received both her B.S. in Nursing and her MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Frans van Houten has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2023. Mr. van Houten has also served as an independent director of Novartis AG since February 2017, Castor EDC since May 2023, Synthesis Health Inc. since May 2023 and Affidea Group since January 2024. Mr. van Houten also currently serves as Chair of Graduate Entrepreneur, a start-up venture fund and ecosystem which he co-founded in January 2020. Previously, Mr. van Houten was the Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Management and Executive Committee of Royal Philips NV from March 2011 until October 2022. Mr. van Houten served as Chief Executive Officer for NXP Semiconductors NV from October 2004 until December 2008 and in various managerial positions at Royal Philips from 1986 until 2004. Mr. van Houten also served as Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum in 2017 and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE). Mr. van Houten received MSc and bachelor's degrees in economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

Daniel Rabinovitsj has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2022. Mr. Rabinovitsj has served as a Vice President of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, and Facebook since August 2018. Previously, Mr. Rabinovitsj served as Chief Operating Officer of Ruckus Wireless, Inc., a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the mobile Internet infrastructure market, from October 2014 until its acquisition by ARRIS International plc in December 2017. From 2011 to September 2014, Mr. Rabinovitsj served as Senior Vice President of Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.'s wired and wireless networking and small cell infrastructure business. Prior to Qualcomm Atheros, Mr. Rabinovitsj served in a number of executive management positions at companies including Atheros Communications, NXP Semiconductors, ST Ericsson, and Silicon Labs. Mr. Rabinovitsj previously served as a board member of QuickLogic Corporation and a private company developing intellectual property based upon machine learning to improve communication and other systems. Mr. Rabinovitsj received an M.A. in Asian Studies and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.

Joseph Sirosh, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2022. Dr. Sirosh is currently the CEO and President of CreatorsAGI Inc, and recently served as Vice President of Amazon's Alexa Shopping group from October 2022 to November 2023. Previously, Dr. Sirosh served as the Chief Technology Officer of Compass, Inc. from December 2018 to August 2022 and held various positions at the Microsoft Corporation from July 2013 to December 2018, including Chief Technology Officer of Artificial Intelligence. During his tenure at Microsoft, Dr. Sirosh led product and engineering teams with responsibility for the enterprise database, Big Data, and machine learning products. Prior to Microsoft, Dr. Sirosh served as a Vice President of Technology at Amazon.Com, Inc., from December 2004 to July 2013, where he built the machine learning and Transaction Risk Management teams. Dr. Sirosh holds a B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and an M.S. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Neural Networks from the University of Texas at Austin.

Shelby Walker, JD, has served as our Chief Legal Officer since June 2024. She leads our legal team and oversees our legal affairs, business transactions, intellectual property, risk management, and compliance. Prior to joining us, Ms. Walker served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Korro Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: KRRO) from May 2023 to June 2024. Previously, she held senior leadership roles as Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property at CRISPR Therapeutics (Nasdaq: CRSP) from March 2018 to April 2023 and General Counsel at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. from May 2016 to March 2018. Ms. Walker holds a JD and LLM from UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law, dual MS degrees in Bioscience Regulatory Affairs and Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS degree in Biotechnology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.