What Happened?
Emeryville, CA-based Zymergen Appointed Joshua Hoffman as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
Founded in 2013 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Zymergen integrates automation, machine learning, and genomics to rapidly accelerate the pace of scientific advancement. We treat the genome as a search space, leveraging machine learning to make discoveries far beyond the bounds of human intuition. In doing so, we deliver economic value, material diversity and performance capabilities not previously possible.
About the Person
Joshua Hoffman was a Partner at Norcob Capital and before that a Managing Director in Merchant Banking at Rothschild, where he was a member of the Management Committee. He began his career at McKinsey & Company where he served industrial and technology clients on matters of strategy, operations and organization. He holds a BA from University of California, Berkeley and an MA and MPPM from Yale University.
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