John has 30 years of successful R&D experience. He was Head of R&D IT/CIO for Medimmune (AstraZeneca’s large molecule division) and later led Data Sciences & AI at AZ. Previously, he was Head of R&D Innovation at Accenture, following its acquisition of LabAnswer, where he led R&D Strategy. He also served as VP of Professional Services at Schrödinger, helping develop LiveDesign.

Earlier, John was Global Director of Scientific Informatics at Accelrys, pioneering Biological Entity Registration and Next-Gen LIMS. At GSK, he was Philadelphia Site Head and led Structural Biology & Lab Automation. He also held roles in informatics and computational science at Merck.

John’s early career included roles at Tektagen (now Charles River), the Pennsylvania State Police, and as Co-Founder of Avecon. He studied biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State and Lehigh University.

Raminderpal Singh, PhD, is a recognized visionary in AI & GenAI implementation across technology and science-focused industries. With 30+ years of global experience, he has led and advised teams, helping early to mid-stage companies achieve breakthroughs through computational modeling. He founded the open-source community HitchhikersAI.org and co-founded Incubate Bio, a techbio that accelerates life sciences research and lowers wet lab costs via in silico modeling. Singh has built businesses in Europe and the US. As a business executive at IBM Research in New York, he led IBM Watson Genomics Analytics' go-to-market. He was also VP, Head of the Microbiome Division at Eagle Genomics in Cambridge. Singh earned his PhD in semiconductor modeling in 1997 and has published several papers, two books, and 12 patents. In 2003, EE Times named him one of the 13 most influential people in semiconductors.