Jason Ryder

Jason Ryder is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Oobli, a commercial-stage biotechnology company creating a new category of sweet protein ingredients and products for the food and beverage industry. Jason leads strategy for Oobli's technology, manufacturing platform, and portfolio of sweet protein products.

An expert in precision fermentation, Jason brings more than 20 years of experience in the engineering, scale-up, and commercialization of bio-based processes and products in the industrial biotech and food tech sectors. His professional work has ranged from small molecules to proteins with applications spanning sustainable chemicals, fuels, materials, foods, and food ingredients.

Jason earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2018 he joined the UC Berkeley faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, where he currently serves as Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of the Master of Bioprocess Engineering (MBPE) program.