Daniel Sipes

Mr. Sipes joined Plexium as Senior Vice President, Head of Technology in August 2022.

Prior to joining Plexium, Mr. Sipes served as SVP, Strategy and Operations, Site Head San Diego at Strateos (formerly Transcriptic), where he was responsible for building and operating remotely controlled cloud labs for automated chemistry and biology. Prior to Strateos, he was Director, Advanced Automation Technologies at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF). While at GNF, Mr. Sipes developed and implemented new technologies for drug discovery, assay development, high throughput screening, automated cell culture and protein production. Before that, he held positions focused on high throughput screening and compound management at Kalypsys, Inc. and he began his industry career at Ligand Pharmaceuticals as an associate scientist. Mr. Sipes holds a B.S. in Molecular Biology from California State University, Sacramento, and a Master of Science, Immunology from the University of California, Davis.