Josh Israel

Josh Israel serves as an Advisory Board Member at Keck Graduate Institute and holds the position of Director of Operations Excellence at Twist Bioscience since June 2022. Previously, Israel was the Director of Operational Effectiveness at Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. from March 2020 to May 2022 and worked as a Senior Manager of Operational Excellence at Allergan, where responsibilities included managing the continuous improvement program and strategic site planning. Prior roles include Supervisor at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where initiatives in Lean Transformation were facilitated, and Team Lead at Life Technologies, noted for executing a significant capacity scale-up project. Israel also has a background as a Process Engineer, leading projects that achieved notable improvements in yield and productivity. Educationally, Israel earned an MBA from the University of California, Davis, and a degree in Biotechnology with an emphasis in bioinformatics from the same institution.