
SynBioBeta 2026 Speaker
John Robson
BioOra
Managing Director
John Robson is the CEO and Managing Director of BioOra, a New Zealand biotech company scaling automated CAR-T cell therapy manufacturing. He brings over two decades of deep-tech investment experience from his role at Bridgewest Ventures, and has been closely involved in early-stage life-science companies since 2008. As a board member of multiple biotech startups, Robson combines financial acumen, risk strategy, and vision to help BioOra deliver affordable, high-quality cell therapies.



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


