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Alec Nielsen

Founder & CEO at Asimov, Venture Partner at Pillar

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Andras Forgacs

Co-Founder & Board Director at Modern Meadow, Fork & Goode, Organovo

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Andy Beck

Co-Founder & CEO at PathAI

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Ash Ashutosh

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Bernhard van Lengerich

Founder and CEO at Seeding The Future Foundation. Board Member at Beyond Meat and CSO at General Mills

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Bill Brady

CEO at Kula Bio, Monolith Materials, Mascoma Corporation

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Brian Baynes

Co-Founder at Petri

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Chad Laurans

Founder & Chairman at SimpliSafe

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Chris Voigt

Professor at MIT

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Corey Thomas

Founder & CEO at Rapid7

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Daphne Koller

Founder & CEO at Insitro

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Dave Husak

Founder & CTO at Plexxi

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Deepak Taneja

Co-Founder & CEO at Netegrity / Aveska / RSA

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Doug Cameron

Apeel, Geltor, Nature's Fynd

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Ellen Rubin

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Emily Leproust

CEO at Twist Bioscience

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Gail Goodman

Co-Founder & Board Member at Constant Contact

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Jason Robins

CEO at DraftKings

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Jeff Binder

CEO at Layer3TV

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Jennifer Holmgren

CEO at LanzaTech

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Jeremy Allaire

Co-Founder & CEO at Circle

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Jeremy Hitchcock

CEO at Dyn / Minim

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Jit Saxena

Board Member at Netezza / Cazena

JP Mangeolle

Danaher, Sciex, Phenomenex

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Lisa Dyson

Founder & CEO at Air Protein

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Matt Kalish

Co-Founder at DraftKings

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Niraj Shah

Co-Founder & CEO at Wayfair

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Pam Silver

Professor at Harvard Medical School

Paul Bleicher

Executive Partner at Optum, Humedica, Phase Forward

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Paul Liberman

Co-Founder & President at DraftKings

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Reshma Shetty

Co-Founder at Ginkgo Bioworks

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Rich Napolitano

CEO at Plexxi / Advisor360

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Rushika Fernandopulle

CEO at Iora Health

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Stan Lapidus

Cytyc, Exact Sciences

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Steve Conine

Co-Founder at Wayfair

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Steve Kaufer

CEO at Tripadvisor

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Steve Kokinos

CEO at Fuze / Algorand

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Tom Ebling

Former CEO at Demandware

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Tom Erickson

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Yvonne Hao

Former COO & CFO at PillPack