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Timothy Gardner, Riffyn’s Founder and CEO, is a scientist who pioneered the field of synthetic biology. He was previously Vice President of R&D at Amyris, where he led the engineering of yeast strain and process technology for bio-manufacturing of renewable chemicals. Tim has been recognized for his pioneering work by Scientific American, the New Scientist, Nature, Technology Review, and the New York Times. He also serves as an advisor to the European Union Scientific Committees, Imperial College London, and the Boston University Engineering Alumni Advisory Board. He holds a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University.

Loren is Vice President of Science at Riffyn, focused on providing customers with the best experience they can have in implementation, training, and utilization of Riffyn Nexus. Prior to Riffyn, he was Director of Quality, Analytics, and Manufacturing at Bolt Threads. He also worked as a Senior Scientist at Amyris in Quality and Analytical Chemistry, and as a Scientist at Nitto Denko Technical Corporation where he led Analytical Chemistry within the pharmaceutical CMC group. Loren has a PhD. in Materials Science from the University of California, San Diego, and a Bachelors is in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College.

Natalie has focused her career on the intersection of people, process and software. Prior to joining Riffyn, she held roles in strategy, operations, and client service at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Core Informatics, and Deloitte Consulting. Natalie led the definition and implementation of the global operating structure for Thermo Fisher’s corporate-level digital science transformation initiative, and the creation and implementation of the marketing strategy for Core Informatics. Natalie holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Jean-Claude is Vice President of Finance and Operations at Riffyn. Previously, Jean-Claude was the VP of Finance at Womply, a 160 person SAAS financial technology company that served small and medium sized businesses. Prior to that, he headed supply chain operations at Amyris, where he built the company’s contract manufacturing footprint in the US and Europe, managed global supply chain operations, and led strategic planning and M&A due diligence. He is also the Founder and co-owner of Skuut, the leading balance bike company for kids ages 3 to 5. Jean-Claude holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, a Bachelors in Sociology from Harvard University, and is a CPA.

Jan Schiffman is the VP of Engineering at Riffyn. Jan has spent his career leading engineering and technology teams at both startups and established enterprise software firms, focused on advanced analytics, business intelligence, real time market data and trading systems. In addition to the US, Jan has lived and worked in both the UK and Japan and most recently he served as VP of Engineering for TIBCO Data Science, based in San Francisco. Jan studied Computer Science at Rutgers University and when he’s not in front of a computer, you can find him behind a drum kit.

Lili Nader is a Strategic Technical Advisor to Riffyn, providing guidance and direction on product architecture, system architecture and scalable cloud infrastructure. Lili served as Riffyn's founding CTO for more than 5 years. Previously, Lili served as a software architect at Red Hat and Makara (acquired by Red Hat). At Red Hat she developed Openshift – a platform as a service (PaaS) providing high availability web application monitoring and management. At Makara, she built a container system for scalable lifecycle management, performance monitoring, and clustered deployment of web applications. Prior to Makara, Lili worked at Timestock (sold to Wiley Technology), OnDemand (sold to Chordiant Software), and National Semiconductor. Lili has a Masters in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Salford and a Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.