Robert Hershberg, M.D., Ph.D., has served as a member of our Board since March 2020. He has served as a Venture Partner at Frazier Healthcare Partners since March 2020. Previously, Dr. Hershberg served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of HilleVax, Inc, from March 2020 to September 2025. Previously, from April 2017 to March 2020, Dr. Hershberg was the executive vice president and head of business development and global alliances at Celgene (acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2019). He was employed in positions of ascending responsibility at Celgene since joining the company in 2014, including his role as Chief Scientific Officer from January 2016 to March 2020. Before Celgene, he served several roles at VentiRx Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company which he co-founded in 2006 and was Chief Executive Officer from September 2012 until the company’s acquisition by Celgene in February 2017. Dr. Hershberg currently serves on the board of directors of Adaptive Biotechnology and AtaiBeckley. He previously served on the boards of directors of Nanostring Technologies, Inc., from 2015 to April 2022, Silverback Therapeutics, from 2017 to November 2022, and Fate Therapeutics, from 2020 to June 2024. He also serves on the scientific advisory board of Danaher. He holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California, San Diego’s Affiliated Ph.D. program with the Salk Institute and an M.D. and a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, completed under the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP).
Zachary Bogue, J.D., has served as a member of our Board since August 2018. Mr. Bogue brings to bear more than two decades of experience in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, attorney, and angel investor. Mr. Bogue co-founded deep tech venture capital firm DCVC in 2010, and he continues to serve as its Co-Managing Partner. Mr. Bogue led DCVC’s significant investments in Freenome, Relation Therapeutics, Planet Labs, Tala and Oklo. Prior to co-founding DCVC, Mr. Bogue was an entrepreneur, founding three companies in Silicon Valley and an angel investor, with early investments in companies like Block and Uber Technologies. The World Economic Forum has named Mr. Bogue as a Young Global Leader in recognition of his leadership at the intersection of transformative technology and urgent global issues, and he is active in the Davos community. Mr. Bogue graduated with honors from Harvard University in Environmental Science and Public Policy and earned his J.D. with honors from Georgetown Law School.
Blake Borgeson, Ph.D., a co-founder of the Company, has served as a member of our Board since the company’s founding in November 2013, and served as our Chief Technical Officer from November 2013 to July 2018. Dr. Borgeson earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rice University. From 2003 to 2004, Dr. Borgeson worked as a software research intern at M.E. Mueller Institute at Bern, Switzerland, researching and building realtime navigation software for surgical procedures. From 2005 to 2016, he co-founded an ecommerce company, BuildASign.com. In August 2016, Dr. Borgeson was awarded a Ph.D. in biology for his bioinformatics work at UT Austin. Dr. Borgeson has served on the board of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley since September 2018, which focuses on doing foundational mathematical research to ensure smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact.
Namandjé Bumpus, Ph.D., has served as a member of our Board since March 2025. Dr. Bumpus currently serves as the Chief Scientific and Innovation Officer of Charles River Laboratories, a position she has held since January 2026. She previously served as the FDA’s Principal Deputy Commissioner from February 2024 until December 2024. She began her career at the FDA as Chief Scientist in August 2022 before being promoted to Principal Deputy Commissioner. As Principal Deputy Commissioner, she oversaw the agency’s operations and worked closely with the FDA Commissioner to develop and implement key public health initiatives. Prior to joining the FDA, Dr. Bumpus was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins from 2010 to 2022, where she rose through the ranks to ultimately serve as the E.K. Marshall and Thomas H. Maren Professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 2020 to 2022. At Hopkins, Dr. Bumpus also served as associate dean for basic research. Her research expertise is in pharmacology, pharmacogenetics, and bioanalytical chemistry. Prior to becoming a faculty member at Hopkins, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Bumpus earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Occidental College. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Zavain Dar has served as a member of our Board since September 2016. Mr. Dar is currently a Founder and Managing Partner of Dimension, a technology and life science investment firm, a position he has held since March 2022. At Dimension, Mr. Dar invests in the union of cutting-edge biotech and software. Prior to founding Dimension, Zavain was a General Partner at Lux Captial, a tech venture firm, from 2014 to 2022, where he invested in companies leveraging machine learning and AI to augment and replace physical-world functions including biology, language, manufacturing, and analysis. Previously, Mr. Dar was a founder and computer scientist. At Discovery Engine (acquired by Twitter) he engineered machine learning and AI systems across a proprietary distributed computing framework to build web-scale ranking algorithms. Mr. Dar has a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and a M.S. in Theoretical Computer Science from Stanford University where he was a researcher in Stanford’s AI Lab and a Lecturer in the Symbolic Systems Department.
Najat Khan, Ph.D., is an accomplished biopharma leader at the forefront of driving bold innovation to bring transformative therapies to patients. Building on a track record of integrating science, AI/data science, and business leadership across both large pharma and emerging TechBio, she serves as CEO, President, and Board Member at Recursion, where she is leading the next chapter of growth for one of the industry’s most advanced AI-native biopharma companies.
At Recursion, Dr. Khan has combined bold vision with disciplined leadership to advance value and impact. She has sharpened the company’s portfolio and optimized resource allocation across its pipeline and operations – prioritizing and progressing multiple first-in-class and best-in-class clinical programs in oncology, rare disease, neuroscience, and inflammation & immunology, both internally and with partners such as Sanofi and Roche/Genentech.
Dr. Khan also helped lead Recursion’s combination with Exscientia – the largest TechBio deal of 2024 – and has expanded the Recursion OS 2.0 platform into an end-to-end engine for drug discovery and development, spanning biology, chemistry, and ClinTech. She has helped build a world-class “bilingual” team fluent in both science and data science and engages deeply with analysts, investors, and other stakeholders to strengthen understanding of Recursion’s model and shape broader conversations about the future of biopharma and TechBio.
Previously, Dr. Khan was Chief Data Science Officer and Senior Vice President, Global Head of Strategy, Portfolio & Operations for R&D at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine. There, she helped triple pipeline value and advance 10 potential blockbusters, while leading J&J’s efforts to become one of the first major pharma companies to strategically embed AI and digital health across the R&D value chain. She also co-chaired the enterprise-wide Data Science Council, helping to accelerate adoption of data science across the company.
Dr. Khan has also been instrumental in founding industry consortia, including DISRUPT and the AI in Structural Biology Consortium; serves on the board of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare; and is a member of Chief, a network for women in senior leadership. She holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dean Y. Li, M.D., Ph.D., a co-founder of the Company, has served as a member of our Board since its founding in November 2013. Dr. Li has served as Executive Vice President and President, Merck Research Laboratories since January 2021. Dr. Li previously served as Senior Vice President of Discovery Sciences and Translational Medicine, Merck Research Laboratories from November 2018 to December 2020. He joined Merck in February 2017 as Vice President and Head of Translational Medicine. Before joining Merck, Dr. Li was conducting medical research at the University of Utah from July 1994 to March 2017. During his time at the university, he co-founded multiple biotech companies stemming from research from his laboratory, including Recursion, Hydra Biosciences and Navigen Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Li served as the H.A. & Edna Benning Professor of Medicine and Cardiology, the vicedean of research at the University of Utah Health Science Center, and as the chief scientific officer of University of Utah Health Care. Dr. Li also served as interim chief executive officer of Associated Regional University Pathologists, the nation’s third-largest clinical reference laboratory, from June 2015 to August 2016. Dr. Li trained at Washington University in Saint Louis before moving to the University of Utah to work as a post-doctoral scientist in the laboratory of Mark Keating. Dr. Li holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a B.S. in Chemistry from The University of Chicago.
Franziska Michor, Ph.D., has served as a member of our Board since November 2024. Dr. Michor is the Charles A. Dana Chair in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a Professor of Computational Biology and of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. Dr. Michor obtained her undergraduate training in mathematics and molecular biology from the University of Vienna, Austria, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Afterwards, she was awarded a fellowship from the Harvard Society of Fellows. From 2007 until 2010, she was an Assistant Professor in the Computational Biology Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Michor is the director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Evolution. She has been the recipient of the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Alice Hamilton Award, the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, the 36th Annual AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research, and others. Dr. Michor’s laboratory investigates the evolutionary dynamics of cancer initiation, progression, response to therapy, and emergence of resistance.
Elaine Sun, M.B.A., has served as a member of our Board since March 2025. Ms. Sun has served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Mammoth Biosciences, Inc., a CRISPR gene editing company, since March 2022. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc., a public commercialstage biotechnology company, from March 2020 to February 2022. Prior to joining Halozyme, Ms. Sun served in senior management positions at SutroVax, Inc. (now known as Vaxcyte, Inc., a publicly traded life sciences company specializing in developing novel vaccines) from January 2017 to December 2019, most recently serving as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. Previously, Ms. Sun served as Managing Director and Head of West Coast Healthcare for Evercore Partners and Managing Director at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., advising pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies on M&A and corporate finance transactions. She previously served on the board of directors of Dynavax Technologies Corporation from December 2021 to January 2026. Ms. Sun received her M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School and her B.A. degree from Wellesley College.