Pavel leads the Bioanalytics team at Antheia. He has 20 years of experience in analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, chromatography, and metabolomics. Before joining Antheia, Pavel built and managed the Chemistry and Analytics team at Impossible Foods, leading method development and analytics operations to support strain development, fermentation, DSP, regulatory, QC, and scale-up of leghemoglobin biomanufacturing. He also oversaw the characterization and improvement of meat flavor generation, resulting in the successful development and commercial launch of Impossible Burger and other products.

Farrah leads program and project management at Antheia. She has over 20 years of experience leading program and project management, operations, and engineering for companies across the CPG, aerospace, and automotive industries. Prior to joining Antheia, Farrah implemented and led the sustaining program management team at Impossible Foods. She also led product operations, project management, and cost optimization at Blue Bottle Coffee and Tyson Foods to develop and commercialize new products. As a certified project management professional (PMP), Farrah has a proven record of successful project delivery, improving project management practices, and building collaborative teams.

Kristin is Antheia’s General Counsel and Director of Intellectual Property. With over a dozen years of law firm experience, Kristin has a well-established reputation of advising high-impact companies and has been ranked as a Rising Star of Northern California Attorneys by Super Lawyers numerous times. Kristin is also known for her contributions to social justice efforts, receiving a 2022 Infinite Mile Award for her volunteer work to advance MIT’s mission. In 2022, Kristin was also recognized as a Senior Executive Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Heidi is a results-driven human resources executive and HR business partner who leverages decades of experience in empowering, motivating and inspiring to drive transformation within high performing workforces. A certified executive coach and passionate advocate for people-oriented solutions, Pucel serves as a key thought partner in generating scalable, adaptable solutions. Pucel most recently served as Chief People Officer for Countsy, where she worked as an interim HR executive for clients in the biotechnology and software industries, such as Ceribell and Harness.

As Head of Data Science at Antheia, Ben manages in-house software development and external partnerships for storing and interpreting research data, executing bioinformatics analyses, and streamlining business processes. Prior to Antheia, Ben worked as an academic researcher at the intersection of machine learning, bioinformatics, and synthetic biology. Following this, as an entrepreneur and consultant, he developed and deployed data science solutions for biotechnology applications ranging from metabolomics-driven compound discovery to MRI segmentation.