- 8 years experience working with startups and small businesses
- Involved in a number of entrepreneurship, synthetic biology, and sustainability communities
- Long time passions for biotech, sustainability, and high-impact innovation
- In 2019, I was elected co-chair of the UVA iGEM synbio research team where I first began working on Ourobio and today, I oversees most aspects of business development, including fundraising, IP, partnership, and commercialization strategy
- Indiana Conexus's Rising 30 class of 2024
- In addition to Ourobio, I also helped to found a nonprofit startup that is tackling furniture waste and furniture poverty in Charlottesville, VA; and helped to found ValleyDAO, a web3 startup that is democratizing R&D and project finance in the biomanufacturing industry
- "Lives and works with his nose to the grindstone and ears perked"
- See more here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecbrewer/details/honors/