Our Team
Manifold has a seasoned founding team — with experience ranging from AI/ML at Google to scientific software development at MathWorks and PTC Mathcad and to many formative years collectively at MIT. We founded Manifold in 2017 as an AI research and engineering lab — rooted in the MIT tradition of very practical application.
Our hands-on work in life sciences pushed us to develop better tools over time culminating in the Manifold Science Cloud. The Science Cloud is a single place for life sciences researchers to collect, organize, and analyze data together.
The mission-driven community now assembled — of scientists, engineers, advisors, and investors — is passionate about applying the latest advances in computing to help life sciences researchers go faster.
Our hands-on work in life sciences pushed us to develop better tools over time culminating in the Manifold Science Cloud. The Science Cloud is a single place for life sciences researchers to collect, organize, and analyze data together.
The mission-driven community now assembled — of scientists, engineers, advisors, and investors — is passionate about applying the latest advances in computing to help life sciences researchers go faster.
Leadership

Vinay Seth Mohta
Chief Executive Officer
FOUNDER

Vivek Mohta PhD
President
FOUNDER

Sourav Dey PhD
Chief Product Officer
FOUNDER

Rajendra Koppula
Vice President, Machine Learning
FOUNDER

Jakov Kucan PhD
Chief Technology Officer

Andy Song
VP, Corporate Development & AI/ML Solutions

Jonathan Mates MD
Medical Director

Cat Pierson
Head of Sales

Jason Skypeck
Head of Finance

Lauren Wiggins
Head of People

Rebecca Marks
Head of Delivery

Alexander Ng
Head of Customer Engagement

Alexis Isabelle
Director of Client Partnerships

John E. Maynard
Head of Design

Chip Lynch
Director of Engineering
Sam Hitov
Director of Engineering

Andrew Gorelik
Director of Engineering

Rose Martin PhD
Director of Scientific Solutions

Julie Steele
Director, Product Design
Advisors

Brad Porter
Former Vice President, Amazon
CEO, Collaborative Robotics

Gaurav Singal MD
Former CDO, Foundation Medicine (Roche)
Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Sachin Jain MD
Former CMIO, Merck
CEO, SCAN Group & Health Plan

Pravin Soni PhD
Former SVP R&D, Elevation Pharma (Sumitomo)
President at PharmaCRO
Team

Alan Ning
Software Engineering Architect

Alex Fiedler
Staff Software Engineer

Alex LaRue
Staff Software Engineer

Alex Soloway PhD
Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Ashwin Patil
Senior MLOps Engineer

Austyn Hill
Staff Software Engineer

Brandon Tindle
Software Engineer

Brennon Lee
Senior Software Engineer

Clarissa Verish
Senior Software Engineer

Connor Waldman
Senior Software Engineer

Daniel Robert
Software Engineering Architect

Davi Schumacher
Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Divy Ladha
Product Manager

Dylan Royston PhD
Software Engineer

Elan Stopnitzky PhD
Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Emily Boyle
Technical Program Manager

Eric Tung
Staff Software Engineer

Gloria Gao
Senior Technical Program Manager

Graham Greve PhD
Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Ian Myjer
Staff Software Engineer

Jasmina Jovanovic
Solution Architect

Jason Carpenter
Senior Manager, Engineering

Jeff Moore PhD
Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Jen Sauer
Senior Software Engineer

Joseph Goldbeck
Software Engineering Architect

Julia Burmeister
Product Designer

Junzhi Ma
Finance Associate

Justin Francos
Software Engineer

Kaylee Hill
Software Engineer

Keith Tauscher PhD
Senior Software Engineer

Kelly Kazmierczak
Principal Product Manager

Kris Johnson
Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Krista Parker
Staff Software Engineer

Lisa Aiken
Staff Software Engineer

Logan Eckhoff
Senior Software Engineer

Max Bucci
Senior Software Engineer

Melissa Goldin
Client Partnership Manager

Patricia Stichnoth
Senior Product Manager

Ramesh Sridharan PhD
Architect, Machine Learning

Rebecca Patterson
Machine Learning Fellow

Rikki Salafia
IT Support Engineer

Ryan Kelley PhD
Architect, Machine Learning

Sarah Gray
Senior Technical Program Manager

Sean Kennedy
Senior DevOps Engineer
Spencer Rhodes
Senior Software Engineer

Srini Kadamati
Senior Product Manager

Stan Baker
Senior Software Engineer

Stephen Sherwood
Senior Manager of IT

Stevan Maksimovic
Machine Learning Engineer

Steve Willard
Senior Staff Software Engineer

Tobby Lie
Machine Learning Engineer
Trevor Basinger
Senior Software Engineer