Michael Goldblatt

Michael Goldblatt was co-founder of Aixxia (a platform technology focused on accelerating the speed of R&D), and Chief Executive Officer of Functional Genetics, until it was acquired by Elanco.  Prior to that he served as Director of Defense Sciences at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and before that he was the Science and Technology Officer for the McDonald’s Corporation with broad responsibilities, including nutrition, product development, food safety and corporate venture capital.    Michael has 26  US patents and received his J.D. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis and a B.A. from Reed College.  Time permitting, Michael is a somewhat avid practitioner of the dying art of ornamental turning, the creation of mostly useless, albeit beautiful, objects of art.