We Make an Impact

The General Inception team is your team, taking on most (or even all) of the day-to-day planning and execution activities for building exceptional companies. With a holistic and collaborative approach to company building, everyone is motivated to create impact.

Team

General Inception's team shows what can be achieved collaboratively when you optimize for company development. There are huge challenges to take innovations from the lab to product development and market. General Inception provides an entrepreneurial platform to help with those challenges to facilitate strategic growth and save effort, time, money, and energy.

- Utkan Demirci, PhD

Co-Founder & Inventor, Mercury Biosciences

Standford University School of Medicine

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Meet The Team

Our Executives

Each executive team member has deep functional and industrial expertise to contribute to early company building. Our executives are dedicated to individual companies and are the first executives on the early management teams.

Vicky Arena De Souza

Director, Program Management

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Lizzy Berezovsky, PhD

Executive-in-Residence

Therapeutics Operations

Alice A. Chen, PhD

Executive-in-Residence

Life Science Tools & Diagnostics

Alan Dance

Executive-in-Residence, Life Science Tools & Diagnostics

Paco Cifuentes, PhD

Vice President

Commercial Development

Byron Hewett

Executive-in-Residence, Life Science Tools & Diagnostics

Kevin Hollevoet

Program Director

Chris Hoppe

Vice President, Commercial Development, Synthetic Biology

Liz Kerr, PhD

Executive-in-Residence, Life Science Tools

David Moffat

Vice President

Chemistry

Brad Nelson

Vice President

Commercial Development

Geoff Nosrati, PhD

Strategic Advisor

Venkat Reddy, PhD

Chief Science Officer, Therapeutics Strategy & Development

Sundiep Phanse, PhD

Executive-in-Residence

Commercial Development

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Alain Pluquet

Executive-in-Residence, Life Science Tools & Diagnostics

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Tim Richardson

Vice President, Strategic Business Development

David Uffer

Vice President, Commercial Development, MedTech

Francois Valencony

Chief Business Officer

Our Practice

Our practice leads have deep technical experience in their industries and serve as the first point of contact for scientific innovators. They are instrumental in setting up the essential building blocks for our companies.

Luis Gosálbez

Director, Microbiome & Microbiology

Sara Jones, PhD

Senior Director, Cell Engineering

& Synthetic Biology

Kelly Kaihara, PhD

Director, Life Science

Tools & Diagnostics

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Jayon Wang

Director, MedTech & Digital Health

Our Operations

Our operations team provides all facets of company building infrastructure including system operations, branding, business development and non-dilutive funding to complement the founding teams.