Chris Achar

Chris Achar has served as a member of the board of directors since May 2018 and was appointed as the Chief Strategy Officer in June 2021. Chris is the founder of Genzum Life Sciences, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, and has served as its chief executive officer since 2010. Prior, Chris founded Synergy Ventures, a venture capital company where he serves as a general partner, whose investments include seed-stage funding to several medical technology companies including Cue BioPharma Inc. and Provention Bio Inc.

Chris has served as a member of the board of directors of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship since 2018. Chris holds a B.S. in business marketing from California State University and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University School of Business.