Our Team

Alex Kotlar

Alex Kotlar

Founder & CEO

Boston-based scientist and AI startup founder with a PhD in genetics. Postdoctoral research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and led bioinformatics at a Timothy Springer-funded startup. Now building Bystro AI to bring grounded agentic AI to large-scale genetic analysis.

Thomas Wingo

Thomas Wingo

CSO

Dr. Wingo is a Professor of Neurology at UC Davis School of Medicine and Associate Director of the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. He is a cognitive neurologist, geneticist, and bioinformatician with training in population genetics, functional genomics, and large-scale data analysis.

Yue Ke

Yue Ke

CTO

Entrepreneur and technology leader. Physics PhD from Univ. of Pittsburgh. Support software development and production. Contribute to technical strategy and business development. Brings deep expertise in AI, bioinformatics, and large-scale software systems. Yue also serves as Vice President of Informatics & AI at Pillar Biosciences, where he leads regulated AI-driven bioinformatics NGS software solution and enterprise IT systems.

Mason Alban

Mason Alban

CRO

Serial entrepreneur with a track record of building, scaling, and successfully exiting startups. Combining strategic vision with deep industry connections to drive innovation and turn complex ideas into high-growth businesses.

Cristina Trevino

Cristina Trevino

Head of Product

Computational biologist and human geneticist, PhD from Emory University. Working to enable bench scientists, doctors, and others to access the insights that have been locked behind difficult workflows to see personalized medicine become a reality.

Austin Talbot

Austin Talbot

Head of ML

PhD in Statistics from Duke University. Postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Detecting copy number variation for liquid biopsy and adapting ML methods for proteomic and genomic analyses powered by AI.

Advisors

Becky Kusko

Becky Kusko

Advisor

Biopharma leader with two exits. Extensive scientific knowledge in AI, Genomics, oncology, Neuroscience, Rare diseases drug discovery and development spanning from small molecule to cell therapy. Successful track record of private and public investor relations, global strategic planning, corporate strategy, revenue growth, various business development sourcing and transactions, buy&sell side diligence, alliance management, scientific project management, leadership through transformational change. PhD in Genomics.

Anna Marie Wagner

Anna Marie Wagner

Advisor

Founder and CEO of a stealth biotechnology company, leveraging artificial intelligence to drive more efficient experimentation. Her career has spanned investing and operating roles in both hypergrowth and mature companies. She brings a unique breadth of experience, having served as a hands-on executive leading multiple strategic functions across industries, particularly technology and life sciences. She currently advises companies across both the public and private sectors. Previously, Anna Marie was on the executive team at Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE:DNA), where over the years she built and led numerous functions including finance, corporate development, and AI.

Gary Magnant

Gary Magnant

Advisor

Co-founder and General Partner at Formation Venture Engineering funds and FVE Foundry. He previously served as the founding CEO of Sage Science, Thrive Bioscience, and Owl Scientific (now ThermoFisher). FVE Foundry and its related VE Funds are focused on life science startups with game-changing technology platforms. FVE’s portfolio includes Akston Biosciences, NeuroDex, Cell IDx (acquired by Danaher), LeviSense Medical, Adeptrix, NonExomics and Twilight Biosciences. Gary is an advisor and board member of several life science companies, including Asymmetrex and Vakston. He guides strategy, builds positive synergistic mission-critical relationships, and raises capital for companies with world-worthy technologies and teams.

Todd Rothenhaus

Todd Rothenhaus

Advisor

Dr. Rothenhaus is former SVP and Chief Medical Officer of Athenahealth. He is a nationally recognized expert on the use of information technology in support of emerging delivery models and the provision of safe and effective patient-centered care. Dr. Rothenhaus has served on a several national health information technology committees. He has authored over 30 publications, and has participated in the development of a number of health care IT standards.

Zach Carter

Zach Carter

Advisor

Zach has over fifteen years of investment management industry experience, spent in fiduciary service to the world's largest institutional investors. Before founding Alpha Due Diligence, he held senior roles on the Portfolio Management, Investment Analytics, and Trading teams at Arrowstreet Capital, LP, a leading quantitative asset management firm. Zach holds a BA from Oberlin College with a double major in Mathematics and Economics.

Richard Friedberg

Richard Friedberg

Advisor

Richard C. Friedberg, MD, PhD, MHCM, FCAP is an award-winning Senior Executive with 30+ years of worldwide success in medicine, academics, biotechnology, and diagnostics. His direct experience in health care delivery, compliance, strategic planning, and risk mitigation includes key leadership positions throughout his career in diverse private, public, and academic sectors.

Michael Bailin

Michael Bailin

Advisor

Experienced Anesthesiologist with executive and leadership roles within the hospital & health care industry. Dr. Bailin is a skilled clinician and expert anesthesiologist, providing medical and business insights, clinical and strategic support to entities ranging from device developers, pharmaceutical companies, physician practices and individual physicians. He has extensive experience as an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Michael has held leadership positions within several academic and private hospitals and boards and graduated from MIT and Harvard Medical School.