Leadership Team

Meet our Cutting-Edge Team

ZymoChem has extensive expertise in metabolic engineering, bioprocess scale-up, and commercialization of high-performance materials, chemicals, and consumer products.

Jon Kuchenreuther,
Co-Founder & CSO
Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez
Assoc. Director
Sara Gushgari-Doyle
Sr. Scientist, Strain Dev.
Michael Wang
Scientist, Enzyme Dev.
Don Trimbur
Technical Consultant
Rhontelle Amiling
Scientist, Analytics
Benjamin Sproul
Research Assoc., Strain Dev.
Taylor Shimono
Research Assoc., Enzyme Dev.
Daniel Hu
Sr. Research Assoc., Biology

Not Currently Pictured:
Saad Abdullah
Research Assoc., Biology
Scott Akers
Technical Program Mgr.

R&D

Julio Amaya
Research Assoc., Analytics
Shawn Bachan
Sr. Scientist, Strain Dev.
Jeff Colbeck
Data Scientist
Mathew Ellenberger
Sr. Research Assoc., Analytics
Angela Gordillo
Scientist, Biology
Ana Ibanez
Sr. Scientist, Analytics
Julia Khandarina
Sr. Director, Analytics
Kelly Miller
Scientist, Strain Dev.
Vanessa Munoz-Gutierrez
Scientist, Strain Engineering
Gionata Scalcinati
Director, Strain Dev.
Kylie Watanabe
Research Assoc., Biology
Linda Zhong-Johnson
Scientist, Enzyme Dev.

Not Currently Pictured:
Maxime Boulet-Audet
Principal Scientist, Polymer Chemistry
Jenny Hoang
Quality Lead, Materials
Emma Scaff
Technician, Materials
Eugenio Soriano
Sr. Technician, Materials
Kumkum Tirumalasetty
Project Manager
Jeroen Visjager
Sr. Director, Materials Dev.

Materials Development

Thomas Mand
Technical Program Mgr.
Sripathi Dev Sharma Kopparthy
Engineer, Materials Dev.
Sanchita Biswas
Material Process Dev. Lead
Noah Walther
Research Assoc., Materials
Edward Turk
Quality Assoc., Materials
Ritu Bansal-Mutalik
Vice President, BioProcess Dev.
Christopher Sola
Engineer, Materials

Thomas Mand
Technical Program Mgr.
Neel Shah
Engineer, BioProcess
Akash Narani
Principal Engineer
Greg Bontemps
Engineer, Fermentation
Josh Schmidt
Fermentation Lead
Ritu Bansal-Mutalik
Vice President, BioProcess Dev.
Srikanth Bellur
Assoc. Dir., BioProcess
German Pereira
Engineer, Fermentation
Rhontelle Amiling
Scientist, Analytics
Jeremy Gruber
Engineer, Fermentation


Process Development

Not Currently Pictured:
Marisa Cepeda
Research Assoc., Ferm.
Marian Corpus
Operations Lead, BioProcess
Isabel Gelatti
Engineer, BioProcess
Ivan Johnson
Technician, BioProcess
Julia Khandurina
Sr. Director, Analytics
Steve Lok
Sr. Scientist, BioProcess
Jemma Thorpe
Research Assoc., Ferm.

Human Resources
& Operations

Saraa Batdorj
People & Talent Partner

Annette Janczura
Head of People

Not Currently Pictured:
Tami Norgrove
Office Manager
Jack Wong
Lab Operations Lead
Sam Kim
Lab Assistant
Raphael Hernandez
Lab Assistant

Business
Development

Tim Dummer
Vice President, Strategy & Business Dev.

Harshal Chokhawala
Co-Founder & CEO

Greg Gerhardt
Vice President, Business Dev.

Branded
Products

Louis Chapdelaine
Director, Consumer Product Dev.

Joe Giallanella
Vice President, Marketing &
General Mgr., Branded Products

We’re Hiring

ZymoChem has extensive expertise in metabolic engineering, bioprocess scale-up, and commercialization of high-performance materials, chemicals, and consumer products.

We couldn’t do this without our investor partners.

Our Advisors

Our Board

Harshal Chokhawala
Co-Founder & CEO at ZymoChem

Tim Dummer
VP Strategy & Business Development
at ZymoChem

Phil Grayeski
Partner at KdT Ventures

Jon Kuchenreuther
Co-Founder & CSO at ZymoChem

Lindy Fishburne
Managing Partner at Breakout Ventures

Brett Morris
(Board Observer), Managing Director
at Cavallo Ventures

Our Culture & Values

Careers

Team Events

Founded in 2015, ZymoChem is proudly based in San Leandro, California and in 2022 opened a satellite office on the east coast in Burlington, Vermont.