Our Team

  • Barry Olafson, Ph.D.

    Co-Founder & CEO

    He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of North Dakota, his Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech, and did postdoctoral work at Harvard University.

  • Stephen Mayo, Ph.D.

    Stephen Mayo, Ph.D.

    Co-Founder

    Stephen L. Mayo, Ph.D. is the Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry and Merkin Institute Professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California.

    He has been a member of the Caltech faculty since 1992 and served as Vice Provost for Research from 2007 to 2010 and Chair of the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering from 2010 to 2020.

    He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University, his Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech, and did postdoctoral work at both UC Berkeley and Stanford University School of Medicine in chemistry and biochemistry, respectively.

  • Justin Chartron, Ph.D.

    Justin Chartron, Ph.D.

    Co-Founder & Experimental Protein Engineering Lead

    He received his Ph.D. from Caltech and did postdoctoral work at Stanford University.

  • Paul Chang, M.Eng

    Co-Founder & Computational Lead

    M.Eng - MIT/Princeton

  • Taylor Dennis, Ph.D.

    Taylor Dennis, Ph.D.

    Scientist & Protein Engineer

    PhD – UC Riverside

    Postdoc – City of Hope

  • Frederick Lee

    Scientist & Protein Engineer