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Meet
the Team

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Leadership
Team

Leadership
Team

Sean-McClain-Absci-Chief-Executive-Officer@2x

Sean McClain

Founder, CEO & Director

Zach Jonasson, PhD

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Business Officer

Andreas Busch, PhD

Chief Innovation Officer

Karin Wierinck

Chief People Officer

Penelope

Chief Morale Officer

Amaro

Amaro Taylor-Weiner, Ph.D.

Chief AI Officer

Wen Sha

Chief of Staff

Jens Plassmeier, PhD

SVP, Biologics Discovery Technology

Christine Lemke, PhD, DVM, MBA

SVP, Portfolio and Growth Strategy

Christian Stegmann, PhD, MBA

SVP, Drug Creation

Todd Bedrick, CPA

SVP, Chief Accounting Officer

Daniele Biasci, PhD

SVP, Immunology

Imad Ajjawi, PhD, MBA

VP, Business Development

Tom Cordaro

VP, Business Development

Alexander Khan, CPA

VP, Finance & Investor Relations

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Byron Olsen

VP, Intellectual Property

Greg Schiffman, CPA

Senior Advisor

Executive
Leadership

Executive
Leadership

Sean-McClain-Absci-Chief-Executive-Officer@2x

Sean McClain

Founder, CEO & Director

Zachariah-Jonasson@2x

Zach Jonasson, PhD

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Business Officer

Andreas Busch, PhD

Chief Innovation Officer

Karin Wierinck

Chief People Officer

Penelope

Chief Morale Officer

Board
of Directors

Board of
Directors

Sean-McClain-Absci-Chief-Executive-Officer@2x

Sean McClain

Founder, CEO & Director

Karen McGinnis, CPA

Former Chief Accounting Officer, Illumina

Amrit Nagpal

Managing Director, Redmile Group

Dan Rabinovitsj

Vice President, Meta

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Frans van Houten, MSc

Former CEO of Royal Philips

Joseph Sirosh, PhD

Vice President, Alexa Shopping, Amazon

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Mene Pangalos, PhD

Former Executive Vice President of BioPharmaceuticals R&D at AstraZeneca

Scientific
Advisory Board

Scientific
Advisory Board

Andreas Busch, PhD

Chief Innovation Officer

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Mene Pangalos, PhD

Executive Vice President, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca

Timothy Lu, MD, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO, Senti Biosciences

Hubert Truebel MD, PhD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer, AiCuris

Victor Greiff, PhD

Associate Professor, University of Oslo

Dog
Pack

Dog
Pack

Penelope

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Polly

Bono

Tucker

Zorro

Zorro

Beatrix

Mary Poppins

Sachi

Torbin

Freya

Ove

Coco

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Creating new drugs at the speed of AI

Absci is a generative AI drug creation company.
Our mission is simple: create better biologics for patients, faster.