Puerto Rico Science and Tech Fund

Founder and Chairman of Cascades Technologies, Inc. (CTi), an Inc. 5000 IT services firm delivering governance, data management, agile development, and cybersecurity services to US federal agencies.

Special Assistant to the Governor of Puerto Rico supporting public policy, legislative affairs, and interagency coordination, and a former Legislative Aide in the US House of Representatives. Also directs the Luis A. Ferré Executive Internship Program.

Associate Professor of Cellular Neuroscience at Yale University and co-founder of Ciencia Puerto Rico. His lab studies nervous system development and function, and his work has earned recognitions including a Sloan Fellowship.

Program Manager for Puerto Rico Source Link at the Trust and COO of Codetrotters, previously with the Foundation for Puerto Rico and the Government Development Bank. She worked at Goldman Sachs' Investment Banking Division and is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.

Senior biopharmaceutical advisor and former Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing at Biogen, with over 28 years of R&D-through-commercialization experience. Holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Hawaii.

Director of the Office of Integrated Surveillance and Informatics Services within the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences.

Licensed attorney, CPA, and real estate broker who formerly served as New Jersey's Secretary of Commerce and as co-founder, president, or general counsel of various technology and biotechnology startups.

Former Acting President and Vice President of Research and Technology of the University of Puerto Rico, and a professor in biology, comparative medicine, and neurobiology with extensive postdoctoral training.

CEO of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust. She previously spent 31 years at Hewlett-Packard, retiring as General Manager of HP Puerto Rico's Enterprise Business in 2013. Holds an industrial engineering degree from UPR Mayagüez with executive education at Northwestern's Kellogg School.

Chief Communications & Marketing Officer with 30 years of experience as an editor and reporter at El Nuevo Día, leading editorial redesigns and launching print and digital products. Holds a master's in translation from UPR.

Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Executive Director of the P.R. Public Health Trust, promoting evidence-based public health practice. Formerly Associate Director of the P.R. Vector Control Unit and a grants management specialist at the Trust. Holds a doctorate in environmental sciences and microbiology.

Physician-scientist and President of the City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles. A leading researcher in NK cell immunotherapy and former president of the American Association for Cancer Research, co-founder of several cancer research ventures.

Professor and Chair of the Department of Data Science at Dana-Farber and University Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Associate and Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at UPR Mayagüez and NSF CAREER awardee, specializing in fluid dynamics, transport phenomena, and colloidal physics. Holds a PhD from Caltech.