Our team
For the first time, we’re empowering biotech entrepreneurs with an advanced AI-driven pipeline analytics platform — enabling them to prioritize their research efforts and develop important treatments for patients faster.
Our company culture is built upon a foundation of teamwork, creativity, inclusiveness, and innovation, fostering an environment where all ideas are valued and collaboration is encouraged to drive meaningful impact and positive change. At Vibe Bio, we believe in catalyzing the discovery and funding of treatments by leveraging AI, enabling high-potential drugs to reach critical inflection points and ultimately benefit patients.
If you’re low-ego, mission-driven, people-first, and ready to roll up your sleeves, we want to meet you.
Alok Tayi, Ph.D.
CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Alok has 15 years of experience as a scientist and 12 as a serial entrepreneur. After completing postdoctoral work at Harvard University with George Whitesides, Alok started two pharma SaaS companies, PreScouter and TetraScience, which employ several hundred people combined and have more than four hundred customers. He also launched and led the life sciences division of Egnyte, a cloud content governance company based in California, and grew the business to a 60-person team and eight-figure run rate.
Alok founded Vibe Bio after his daughter was hospitalized at birth and he learned first-hand that the biggest obstacle to developing treatments isn’t finding potential therapies — it’s funding them. Vibe Bio is helping patients in similar situations overcome that obstacle by scaling the development of treatments for rare disorders sustainably for the first time. He holds a B.S. from Cornell and a Ph.D. from Northwestern, both in Materials Science & Engineering.
Kristen Schultz
MANAGER OF OPERATIONS
Kristen is responsible for the day-to-day functions of Vibe Bio as the Manager of Operations. She is a scientist with over 15 years of experience overseeing and managing chemistry and microbiology laboratories. She holds a B.S. in Chemistry & Oceanography from Old Dominion University and a Master of Marine Resources Management from Texas A&M.
Andy Birch
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT
Andy Birch is a product lead with experience driving consumer and B2B design and strategy across a range of industries, including healthtech, fintech, and AI/ML. Before Vibe Bio, Andy was at Ribbon, where they lead design for the Financial Products team, and Loyal, where they built NLP and conversational interface tools. They hold a B.A. in Design from the University of San Francisco.
Sean Ho
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Sean is a Senior Software Engineer with experience building consumer and B2B products in startups across a range of industries, including real estate, fintech, crypto and AI/ML. Before Vibe Bio, Sean was at Ribbon, where he led engineering for the Closing team, and the Financial Gym, where he built internal interface tools. He holds a B.A. in Media Studies from Queens College.
Christina Wong
HEAD OF MARKETING
Christina Wong brings over two decades experience leading marketing and strategic partnerships organizations for new startups, businesses looking to scale, and large enterprises. Her expertise includes building and scaling B2B go-to-market for both traditional on-premises and cloud solutions, including enterprise infrastructure software and data platforms. Christina previously ran cloud marketing at EnterpriseDB, led devops and data partnerships at Red Hat, and has held a variety of leadership positions at other organizations in enterprise software, automotive, defense, and other industries. She holds an M.B.A. from Babson College and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ray Dogum
INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
Ray Dogum is a community builder with project management experience in healthcare tech and delivering telehealth solutions. He is an industry engagement manager working closely with our marketing team. Prior to Vibe Bio, he was at Equideum Health and previously Amwell, MIT. He holds a M.S. in Information Systems, MBA from Questrom Boston University with a focus on digital health technology, and graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Michelle Deery
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Michelle assists the team in day-to-day company tasks. She is a highly organized individual with great communication and interpersonal skills. She has 8 years of experience in administration.
Magali Hickey
SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR
Magali is an expert consultant in CMC and drug development, offering over 21 years of experience in neuropsychiatry, metabolic disorders, and oncology. Her expertise spans preclinical research to commercial launch, focusing on drug delivery, formulation, and process development. She has led teams to advance various dosage forms and collaborated on high-profile brands like Aristada® and Vumerity®. Magali holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Brandeis University and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, gardening, writing, any donates woodworking projects to charitable organizations.
Scientific advisory board
Sir Fraser Stoddart, PhD
Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 2016
Yael Weiss
CEO at Mahzi Therapeutics
Samuel Stupp, PhD
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine, Northwestern University
Kanya Ranjagam, MD PhD
Chief Medical & Development Officer, Senti Bio
Board of directors
John Keilty
Venture Partner
Third Rock Ventures
Alok Tayi, PhD
CEO & Founder
Vibe Bio
Investors
Open positions
Vibe Bio is a remote first, fast growing company with new job postings added on a regular basis. We welcome applications from talented people ready to build a community committed to identifying promising treatments to rare diseases and empowering patient communities with unprecedented ownership over the process.
Don’t see a role that matches your skills, but want to work with us anyway? We’d love to hear from you! Please contact: [email protected]
