We are scientists.
We are engineers.
We are drug hunters. We are insitro.

Allison Lai, SVP of Accounting & Financial Operations

Allison Lai is the SVP of Accounting & Financial Operations at insitro. She brings with her 18 years of experience in accounting and finance operations with most of her experience in the life sciences industry.

Prior to joining insitro, Allison served as VP, Finance & Controller at Adicet Bio, a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company engaged in the design and development of immunotherapies for cancer and other diseases, where she helped build and scale the accounting team. Before then, Allison was at Genomic Health, a global provider of genomic-based diagnostic tests, where she was most recently the Senior Director of Accounting and supported the organization’s increasing headcount and international growth. Allison has also held increasing roles at Affymax, a publicly-traded biotechnology company, and she started her career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP in their audit and assurance practice.

Allison received her BA in Business Management Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and she is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California.

Outside of the office, Allison is constantly chasing after her two sons and cheering on the Golden State Warriors.

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Daphne Koller, Founder & CEO, Board Member

Daphne Koller is the CEO and Founder of insitro.

Daphne was the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she served on the faculty for 18 years. She was the co-founder, co-CEO and President of Coursera for 5 years, and the Chief Computing Officer of Calico, an Alphabet company in the healthcare space. She is the author of over 200 refereed publications appearing in venues such as Science, Cell, and Nature Genetics, and has an h-index of 130. Daphne was one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people and is a MacArthur Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the International Society of Computational Biology.

In her spare time, Daphne enjoys spending time with her family, especially while traveling to exotic destinations (62 countries so far and counting), where they enjoy hiking, sailing, scuba diving, and eating fresh local food.

Dylan Hecker

Dylan is a talent acquisition professional who is passionate about human capital trends and solutions. Recruiting is a very broad and unique industry, but Dylan enjoys the challenges and rewards that come with helping others find their dream careers. Prior to joining Insitro, Dylan joined and worked for a staffing firm right out of college that specializes in healthcare and life sciences, partnering with organizations of all sizes across the United States.

Dylan graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh with a Bachelor of Science in Human Services & Leadership degree. In his spare time, Dylan enjoys hiking, going to the beach, reading, listening to podcasts, and hanging out with friends/family.

He prides himself on his strong work ethic, and is very eager to continue growing both personally and professionally.

Eric McKeeby, Director of Communications

As Director of Communications, Eric leads communications for insitro, designing strategies and inclusive programs and content to ensure all audiences and stakeholders are a part of insitro’s transformative journey in healthcare.

Eric has more than 15 years of communications and marketing experience across healthcare, where he has focused on innovations that improve patient outcomes. Recently, he served as Head of Marketing & Communications at the Regeneron Genetics Center, building a branded communications program for one of the world’s largest genomic research and development initiatives. He has also served as Director of Health Communications at Ancestry, where he led programs to help advance understanding of genomic health, drive product affinity and purchase, and increase engagement with genetic health screenings and research.

His experience includes working with companies like Abbott Diagnostics and Abbott Molecular, Cancer Treatment Centers of America and Merck, as well as launching communications and engagement programs for a Medicaid health plan, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and Virginia Tech. Eric has deep relationships and expertise honed from working with diverse partners, from patients to physicians to biopharma industry to advocacy partners to governmental organizations, that enable collaboration throughout the healthcare ecosystem. A veteran of the US Army, Eric served as a public affairs officer in the Horn of Africa during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Eric enjoys a variety of activities including creative writing, browsing used bookstores, volunteering at community-based literacy programs, hiking, stargazing, and singing 70’s love songs to Huxley, his English Springer Spaniel.

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Jevan Soo Lenox, Chief People Officer

“I am so inspired by insitro’s mission to transform drug discovery through machine learning and biological data at scale, and by the talented insitrocytes united in pursuit. My career has shown me over and over again that the most powerful innovation comes from diverse, multi-disciplinary, collaborative teams, and the possibilities created through insitro’s approach feel unbounded.”

As Chief People Officer, Jevan ensures that insitro attracts the best and brightest, inspires and supports them to do their best work together, and grows and develops them beyond what they thought possible.

Jevan brings to insitro more than 15 years of experience building transformative, high-growth companies and making their talent and culture a strategic advantage. He was most recently the Chief People & Culture Officer at Stitch Fix, an apparel e-commerce company combining data science and human stylists, that he helped grow to 10,000 employees globally and successfully launch multiple new businesses which quickly reached hundreds of $ millions in sales. Prior to Stitch Fix, Jevan was Chief People Officer at Blue Bottle Coffee where he put in place a new retail talent model and service culture to drive global expansion. He also held multiple leadership roles at Square including building their first sales team to move the company upmarket and expand revenue streams ahead of a successful IPO. Jevan began his career at McKinsey & Company in Boston, New York, and Shanghai as a management consultant serving technology and healthcare clients as well as leading McKinsey’s Asia-Pacific recruiting strategy across twelve countries.

Jevan received his MBA from Harvard Business School, his Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and Bachelors in East Asian Studies from Harvard College. He was named a First Mover Fellow by the Aspen Institute in recognition of his leadership within organizations to align business impact with the long-term health of society and the planet.

In his free time, Jevan can typically be found with his husband chasing after their two young sons and their large Airedale terrier. He enjoys complicated recipes, running and fitness, and binge reading novels and back issues of The New Yorker.

Mary Rozenman, CFO / CBO

Mary Rozenman has 20 years of scientific expertise, company building and transactions leadership in the biotechnology industry. Since 2019, she has been CFO/CBO of insitro, a company applying machine learning and data at scale to transform drug discovery and development. At insitro, she leads strategic and operational functions, including finance and accounting, strategy, business development, investor relations and corporate communications. Mary serves as an independent director on the board of Tessera Therapeutics, a company pioneering gene writing. Mary has been recognized on Endpoints’ top 20 under 40 in biopharma list and the Business Insider top 30 under 40 transforming healthcare. Prior to insitro, she was SVP of corporate development and strategy at Aimmune Therapeutics (acquired by Nestlé Health Sciences for $2.6B), where she was a founding team member and led collaborations with companies including Regeneron, Sanofi and Nestlé. Mary has raised over $1B in capital through a range of private and public transactions, including co-leading Aimmune’s 2015 IPO. Before Aimmune, Mary was a biotechnology investor at Longitude Capital and a junior partner at McKinsey & Company focused on pharmaceuticals and corporate finance. Mary holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and chemical biology from Harvard University where she worked with David R. Liu and a B.A. in biochemistry and Russian literature from Columbia University where she was a John Jay Scholar. Her academic work has been published in premier journals including Nature and she is a named inventor on several patents. In her free time, Mary enjoys cooking, travel, golf, and spending time with her husband and two children.

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Stanley Leung, Associate Director

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