Tom is a leading Scientific and Statistical Consultant who shaped the culture of R&D Quality at Amyris and then again at Zymergen. He is also a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley and the inaugural chair of SynBioBeta’s working group on R&D Performance Improvement. Prior to his role as Founder and CTO of Treynor Consulting, Tom was VP Product Development and Application Support at Riffyn. While Director of Test Operations at Zymergen, Tom led a team of Fermentation Engineers, Analytical Chemists and High-Throughput Screeners that crafted some of the world’s most accurate strain performance measurement systems. As both a Principal Quality Engineer and Protein Engineer at Amyris, Tom made distinctive contributions to the development of its anti-malarial, fuels, polymers, lubricants and F&F products.