Priti Pharkya

Priti has led our Strategy and Corporate Development function since November 2018, initially as Senior Director, and promoted to Vice President in August 2020. In 2016, she helped form the Bioengineering Solutions business, and was named its director in 2017. Within this role Priti developed multiple product opportunities and helped build commercial partnerships. Priti joined Genomatica in 2006 as a research scientist. Her work has earned several patents related to feedstock utilization, pathways for bio-synthesis of chemicals and metabolic engineering of microbes for achieving high product yields. Priti earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.