Jesse Dill

Jesse Dill is senior director of business development at Ginkgo Bioworks. He has over a decade experience in industrial R&D in startups and public companies, as well as in public and private sector R&D funding. After graduate school, he first worked on high-throughput screening at Bolt Threads and food science for new product development at Beyond Meat. He then spent several years as a SETA at DARPA BTO, then in venture capital at Northpond Ventures, before coming to his current role at Ginkgo. In his current role, Jesse's work has spanned corporate strategy as well as government, nonprofit, and commercial partnerships. He completed a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in biophysics and an MBA from UMass Amherst.