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.

Rachel Redman
Research Assoc., Analytics
Jon Kuchenreuther,
Co-Founder & CSO
Ankur Sarkar
Metabolic Engineering Scientist II
Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez
Assoc. Director
Sara Gushgari-Doyle
Sr. Scientist, Strain Dev.
Yurong Zhu
Research Assoc. II, Biology
Vincent Angelo
Enzyme Dev. Research Assoc. II
Michael Wang
Scientist II
Don Trimbur
Technical Consultant
Rhontelle Amiling
Scientist II, Analytics

R&D

Shandion Santoso
Research Assoc. II, Biology
Benjamin Sproul
Research Assoc. II, Strain Dev
Taylor Shimono
Research Assoc. II, Enzyme Dev.
Rudy Sithirath
DSP Engineer
Daniel Hu
Sr. Research Assoc., Biology

Not Pictured:
Jeff Colbeck
Data Scientist
Vanessa Munoz-Gutierrez
Strain Engineering Scientist
Nico Blanco
Research Assoc. III, Analytics
Julio Amaya
Research Assoc. I, Analytics

Edward Turk
Quality Associate II
Ritu Bansal-Mutalik
VP of BioProcess Dev.
Christopher Sola
Material Dev. Engineer

Not Pictured:
Jeroen Visjager
Sr. Dir. of Materials Dev.
Eugenio Soriano
Senior Process Development Technician

Materials Development

Thomas Mand
Technical Program Mgr.
Sripathi Dev Sharma Kopparthy
Materials Dev. Engineer II
Sanchita Biswas
Materials Process Dev. Lead
Noah Walther
Materials Research Assoc. I

Thomas Mand
Technical Program Manager
Neel Shah
Engineer II, DSP
Akash Narini
Principal Engineer,
Fermentation
Greg Bontemps
Fermentation Engineer III
Josh Schmidt
Fermentation Lead,
C2 Platform
Ritu Bansal-Mutalik
VP of Bioprocess Dev.
Srikanth Bellur
Assoc. Dir., DSP & Tech Transfer
German Pereira
Research Assoc. II, Fermentation


Process Development

Rachel Redman
Research Assoc., Analytics
Rhontelle Amiling
Scientist II, Analytics
Jeremy Gruber
Fermentation Engineer I
John Green
Research Assoc. II, Fermentation

Not Pictured:
Jemma Thorpe
Research Assoc. II,
Fermentation
Mansoor Adina
Lab Ops Lead
Nico Blanca
Research Assoc. III,
Analytics
Julia Khandurina
Sr. Dir. of Analytics

Human
Resources

Saraa Batdorj
HR Generalist/Recruiter

Annette Janczura
Head of People

Not Pictured:
Tami Norgrove
Office Manager

Business
Development

Tim Dummer
Vice President, Business Dev. Consultant

Harshal Chokhawala
Co-Founder & CEO

Greg Gerhardt
Vice President, Business Dev.

Branded Consumer
Products

Louis Chapdelaine
Dir. of Consumer Product Dev.

Joe Giallanella
Vice President & General Manager

Alaina Kunkle
Art Director

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

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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.