Primary Job Title CEO and Co-Founder Primary Organization Solarea Bio
Location Greater Boston Area, United States, North America Regions East Coast, New England Gender Male
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Gerardo leads microbial discovery at DermBiont.
Prior to joining the company, he served as VP of Discovery at Indigo Agriculture, Inc. alongside David Perry and Geoff von Maltzahn, building lab infrastructure, IP, and experimental validations.
Enabled Indigo’s growth from seed stage to commercial launch of agriculture products based on the plant
microbiome and a $100M Series C round of funding.
Before Indigo, Gerardo spent eight years as Sr. Director with J. Craig Venter at Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), where he established the microbial discovery platform.
He came to SGI from 6 years as a scientist at Diversa Corp. (now Verenium-BASF). Gerardo holds a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD) in La Jolla, CA.
