Luis Fernando Tamassia

Global Innovation Ruminants Lead

DSM Nutritional Products

Dr Flavia Saad

Professor in Pet Nutrition

Universidade Federal de Lavras

Francisco Jardim

Co-Founder and Managing Director

SP Ventures

Marcelo Ceccim

Advisor

CowMed

Daniel Ibri

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Mindset Ventures

Cristina Jorge

Director

CMJ Consultoria & Assessoria

Ricardo Negri

Professor

ITBA

Josue Caride

CEO & Co-Founder

Sampp.co

Daniel Hato

Owner

Dr Hato Veterinary Hospital

John McIntosh

Biocatalytic synthesis of nucleotide therapeutics

Merck

For his PhD, John studied in Eric Schmidt’s laboratory at the University of Utah, where he studied the biosynthesis of the cyanobactin family of cyclic peptide natural products.

After finishing graduate school John was a postdoc in Frances Arnold’s laboratory at Caltech where he studied non-natural reactions of cytochrome P450s and other heme proteins.

John have been with Merck’s Small-Molecule Process Research and Development Department since 2015 where he has worked in the Biocatalysis and Protein Engineering groups. He is presently an associate principal scientist.