Justine Conway
John W. Dombrosky
John W. Dombrosky serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Agtech Accelerator. Launched in 2016 with a consortium of leading venture and industry strategic investors, Agtech Accelerator identifies, forms, capitalizes, and builds from scratch the most promising early-stage agricultural technology companies. The Agtech Accelerator team exclusively focuses on series seed to series a company creation across the ag and food tech economic value system.
Prior to joining Agtech Accelerator, Mr. Dombrosky spent eight years at Syngenta, where his responsibilities spanned licensing, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, and business unit leadership roles. In addition to his experience in the agriculture sector, Mr. Dombrosky developed a deep understanding of software and value-added information platforms at Thomson Reuters while serving in finance, business development, and mergers & acquisition roles. Fostering his lifelong fascination with speed and flight, Mr. Dombrosky’s first professional job was as a corporate planning analyst at northwest airlines.
Mr. Dombrosky earned a Bachelor of Arts in financial management from the University of St. Thomas and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
Chris Robillard
Chris has spent the last 3 years in business development at Karyopharm helping to advance clinical stage products to commercialization in both the human and animal oncology settings. Karyopharm has tested multiple products in canine oncology, both to inform clinical design in humans and to seek partners to advance products in canine oncology. Chris has spent the over 10 years in pharma/biotech in various business development and financial roles.
Sharon Chase
Dr. Sharon Chase is a small animal veterinarian with over a decade of clinical practice experience gained from working in general and emergency hospitals in Massachusetts and Washington, DC. In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Chase served as a reviewer with the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) for over seven years. She currently works as a regulatory consultant for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry with Schafer Veterinary Consultants, based in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Jed Hubbs
George Colberg
Lewis Gruber
Lewis Gruber is Chief Executive Officer and a founder of SIWA Therapeutics, Inc. (“SIWA”). SIWA is a pre-clinical stage biopharmaceutical company with a first-in-class humanized monoclonal antibody (“mAb”) that binds to a SIWA-identified advanced glycation endproduct target antigen on senescent cells (“SCs”) and removes them. SCs accumulate with aging or exposure to stress and have a causative role in age-related dysfunction and degenerative diseases including. by way of example, many cancers, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, ALS, and Alzheimer’s Disease, SIWA has the complete sequence of SIWA 318H, which provides the basis for senescent cell clearance in any mammalian species. Prior to founding SIWA, Mr. Gruber was a founder of Arryx, Inc., and served as its CEO from 2000 through 2005 (acquired by a publicly-held company). While Mr. Gruber was at Arryx, it received numerous awards including ones for World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer (2005) and Red Herring Top 100 Innovator for 2004. Prior to Arryx, he was a founder of Hyseq, Inc, a publicly-held genomics company (subsequently merged). He served as Hyseq’s CEO from 1994 through 2000. While CEO, Hyseq completed the largest IPO of a biotechnology company in 1997 (underwritten by Salomon Smith Barney and others) and obtained collaborations for Hyseq totaling over $10 million. The technology was sold to Beijing Genomics Institute.