Mimi Yen
Dr. Yen is a 2018 MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 and a microbiologist with a global health and program management background. Since co-founding PhagePro, Dr. Yen has received numerous awards and won several startup competitions recognizing her innovative leadership in global health, such as the ASTMH Innovations Pitch Competition and LaunchBio's The Big Pitch. She has been selected for several fellowships, including the MassNextGen Fellowship for women-led early-stage life science businesses, The Capital Network Female Founder Fellowship, and the Henri Termeer Legacy Program. An advocate for DEI in both biotech and global health communities, Dr. Yen strives to center the voices and the needs of the most marginalized.
Franco Costantini
Shawn Frederick
Laura Yecies
Laura Yecies is the CEO of Bone Health Technologies, maker of OsteoBoost, the first effective and safe non-drug treatment for low bone density. Previously she was CEO of SyncThink a medical diagnostic company, Catch, which she sold to Apple and SugarSync which was acquired by J2Global. Earlier she led the Browser division at Netscape, was general manager of Yahoo Mail and VP of Marketing at Check Point. Ms. Yecies has led commercialization and product development programs that have resulted in the use by over 350m customers. She received her MBA from Harvard, has an MSFS from Georgetown and her AB in Government Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth. She has been profiled in the NYTimes and multiple periodicals and is a prolific speaker and writer on health care and technology.
Shivam Bharuka
Shivam is an engineering leader with Meta as part of the AI Infrastructure team for the last three years. During this time, he has helped scale the machine learning training infrastructure at Meta to support large scale ranking and recommendation models, serving more than a billion users. He is responsible for driving performance, reliability, and efficiency-oriented designs across the components of the ML training stack at Meta. Shivam holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
