Amy is a Co-Founder of Pearl Bio, Inc., and serves as the company’s COO, CBO & General Counsel. In these roles, Amy manages operations, workflows, financials, business development, dealmaking, strategy and legal matters for the company. Amy has led intellectual property licensing negotiations across premier academic institutions, dealmaking with pharmaceutical leaders in biologics, advanced market research to advise on scientific direction at Pearl and leads recruitment efforts.Amy’s career began 20 years ago practicing corporate law on Wall Street where her clients included Fortune 500 companies. Following big firm practice and prior to launching Pearl Bio, Amy served as the President and General Counsel of Genome Project-write (GP-write), an international non-profit formed as the sequel to the Human Genome Project to advance large-scale genome synthesis science and technologies. At GP-write, Amy managed all legal matters, ran 9 working groups spanning technical, scientific, educational, ethical & intellectual property, and launched an industrial advisory board recruiting leading companies in genome engineering technologies and genome synthesis to the board. As part of this effort, Amy led the development of a next-generation computer aided design software for re-design of any species’ genome resulting in a number of publications; the project is ongoing and hopes to be a widely used tool for the broader community.In this role, Amy also forged a partnership with SOSV-Indie Bio to provide resources to genome engineering ventures spawning from the GP-write consortium.Amy is on the board of CMT-4B3, serves as a Venture Partner at Cymba X and conducts interviews for her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Political Science & Philosophy. Amy also studied at the London School of Economics (L.S.E.), holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Fordham School of Law and has a Certification in Biomanufacturing from M.I.T where she studied with Chris Love.Additional professional memberships include: -Wharton Alumni Founders & Funders-New York City Builds Bio, Leadership & Life Science Committee-BioBreak, Executive Member