Charles Arntzen—President and CEO Emeritus, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research; Regent’s Professor, Arizona Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University; member of President George W. Bush’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

Dennis Purcell—Senior Managing Director, Aisling Capital and Perseus-Soros Management, LLC; former Managing Director of Life Sciences Investment Banking, Chase Hambrecht & Quist

Marc Zabeau—CEO Methexis Genomics; Scientific Advisor, Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flemish Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology