• Responsible for communicating, synergizing, and executing the business and scientific vision for Xylogenics• Initiating and negotiating strategic business relationships to successfully implement Xylogenics technologies• Responsible for building and maintaining Xylogenics business and scientific teams• Direct conceptualization, engineering, validation, and commercial scale trials for Xylogenics technologies• Create and update business plans and direction that correlates with available resources and scientific indications• Manage day to day operations; including budgets, facilities, and personnel• Serve on Xylogenics board of directors

Responsible for directing research and development of Xylogenics proprietary yeast strains for starch and cellulosic biofuels applications.

Responsible for setting up Xylogenics principal research laboratories. Performed proof of concept studies of Xylogenics 1st generation GX1 technology for the starch fuel ethanol industry.

Implementation of Systems Biology tools (i.e. microarrays, LC-MS based proteomics, network analysis) to characterize biological responses to gene perturbation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae