
SynBioBeta 2026 Speaker
Anna Marie Wagner
Transfyr
Co-founder & CEO
Anna Marie Wagner is the co-founder and CEO of Transfyr, a stealth startup building the worldโs first models that capture and operationalize tacit scientific knowledge. These insights are leveraged to drive scientific robustness, interpretability, and transferability, improving the commercial potential of new innovations and allowing for more seamless collaboration and systems integration across the ecosystem. Anna Marie's career has spanned investing and operating roles in both hypergrowth and mature companies. Previously, she was on the executive team at Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE:DNA), where over the years she built the AI team and oversaw all major strategic transactions, including Ginkgoโs public offering in 2021, raising $1.6 billion in what is still the largest-ever go-public raise in biotech. Before Ginkgo, Anna Marie spent nearly a decade at Bain Capital Private Equity, where she invested in companies across industries and geographies, ultimately focusing on vertical software and internet / digital media businesses, where her realized investments averaged over a 60% IRR. Anna Marie has served as an advisor or board member to a number of organizations across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including DARPA, Owkin/Bioptimus, Bold Eagle, Turbine AI, Potato AI, Digital Biology, Verge Genomics, MassChallenge, and the Boston Museum of Science. She is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, where she co-teaches an elective course on failure (and loves the irony!) and supports the entrepreneurship group.



Reagan
Jarvis
Anocca AB
CEO, Co-founder

Alex
Rives
CZI Biohub
Head of Science

Karenโฏ
Akinsanya
Schrodinger
President, R&D โ Therapeutics

Christopher
Arendt
Takeda
CSO, Head of Research

Stef
van Grieken
Cradle
CEO

Michael
Koeris
DARPA
Director, BTO

Jennifer
Dionne
Pumpkinseed
CEO

Daniyal
Hussain
GSK
Exec. Dir., Tech BD

Cynthia
Hong
Novartis
Dir., Search & Evaluation
SynBioBeta 2027 May 3-6, San Jose, California


